The Artful Year


Book Description

Celebrating the seasons provides a wonderful opportunity to embrace creativity together as a family. It’s also a fun way to decorate for, prepare for, and learn about the holidays we celebrate. In The Artful Year, you’ll find a year’s worth of art activities, crafts, recipes, and more to help make each season special. These artful explorations are more than just craft projects—they are ways for your family to create memories and mementos and develop creatively, all while exploring nature, new ideas, and traditions. The book includes: • Arts and crafts, using the materials, colors, and themes of the season • Ideas and decorations for celebrating the holidays together • Favorite seasonal recipes that are fun for children to help make (and eat!) • Suggested reading lists of children’s picture books about the seasons and holidays The 175+ activities in this book are perfect for children ages one to eight, and for creating traditions that appeal to all ages.




Crafts for Every Season


Book Description

Making your own clothes, housewares, and other craft projects can seem so intimidating. What if you're clumsy with scissors and can barely sew a button? How can you create your own handmade gifts-for yourself and for others-without ripping your ribbon and ruining your fabric? With helpful tips for making the most of your crafting experience, Crafts for Every Season is the perfect book for the novice crafter.* With simple, easy-to-follow instructions for more than 75 beautiful garments, bags, pillows, and other fun items organized into seasonal sections, any budding artist can fashion handmade treasures.* From an elegant clutch and bold beach bag for summer to a poncho and patchwork scarf for winter, from bright oven mitts and fridge magnets for autumn to wild window boxes for spring, the projects in Crafts for Every Season take every reader through the year in the most creative way possible.* Crafts for Every Season offers projects that will intrigue experience crafters but are still simple enough for beginners. The patterns used in the book are included in the back foreasy reference.




Art for All Seasons


Book Description

Art For All Seasons begins Susan's new Kids Art Series and continues her brilliant teaching style through well-thought-out instruction, beautiful, clear photographs, and reference to contemporary artists' work. Parents and children alike will delight in her easy-to-explore art adventures, which guide the readers while encouraging them to find their own artistic voice. Inside and out-of-doors, Art For All Seasons is the perfect choice for any time of year.




Creative Kids: Art for All Seasons


Book Description

Provides ideas for art activities for parents and children (or teachers in the classroom) to make using easily obtainable materials. The activities have varying degrees of difficulty so they can be completed by children from a wide range of ages.




Crafts for All Seasons


Book Description

Charming holiday crafts and projects related to each season, including elegant wreaths, winsome quilts, decorative painting crafts, and so much more Step-by-step instructions and photographs as well as beautiful color photos of the finished projects 160 pages in a durable spiral binding that lays open to make following instructions easier than ever.




Bible Crafts for All Seasons


Book Description

Bible Crafts for All Seasons provides you with over 50+ unique crafts that are flexible enough to be used with large or small groups and that require simple, inexpensive supplies. Plus theyoucan select the difficulty level to fit the skill-level of the class! Covering not only major holidays and seasons, but also special days such as birthdays, Grandparents Day, Back-to-school, Friendship Day and more, Bible Crafts for All Seasons is sure to be a favorite resource teachers reach for again and again!




Art for All Seasons


Book Description

This book "provides a variety of new and exciting ways to celebrate art throughout the year. The 33 themes offer creative and original ideas for art and display originating from popular seasonal events. Themes include harvest, fireworks, winter vegetables, Christmas, spring cleaning, summer grasses and many more."--Back cover.




Sustainable Crafts, Gifts and Projects for All Seasons


Book Description

Take advantage of nature’s bounty and craft in time with the seasons! Whether potting up dandelion honey, cooking and crafting with rose petals or preserving autumn leaves and acorns, there are so many wonderful gifts, ornaments and treats that can be made from either a short walk in the woods or a rummage in your cupboard. With an emphasis on foraging and upcycling, Becci explores the ways we can create beautiful projects using materials readily available in the garden and home. Upcycled projects include gorgeous home textiles woven from bed linen, mini lampshade fairy lights for a summer’s evening and even a fabulous picnic table from an old suitcase. Capture the breeze of autumn with wind chimes made from old necklaces and cutlery and learn how to felt old sweaters, turning them into cosy wreaths, brooches and purses for winter. There is also a section on working with willow, with projects encompassing everything from woven bird-feeders (with home-made fat balls!) to festive ornaments.







Yule


Book Description

Jam-packed with more than 60 spells, invocations, and rituals, "Yule" guides readers through the magic of the season, as they discover the origin of the eight tiny reindeer, brew up some Yuletide coffee, and learn ways to create their own holiday traditions and crafts based on celebrations from a variety of countries and beliefs.