Showing posts with label Handicrafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Handicrafts. Show all posts

Thursday, 22 May 2014

Wearable Wonders

Summary: An introduction to the World of Wearable Art Awards with history and examples, interviews, photographs etc., in a workbook which details how to make your own Wearable Art creation using various art and craft techniques (Publisher)

(New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children & Young Adults finalist - 2014)

A wonderful book for primary, easy to read instructions and wonderfully illustrated with fact files.


Friday, 9 May 2014

Indoor Crafts

Packed with exciting and imaginative craft projects specially created for 7-11 year olds, this book encourages children to develop new skills with an enormous array of materials over a wide range of crafts. With its easy step-by-step instructions and colour photographs it will inspire readers to want to make useful and attractive creations.

Make a bunch of flowers from tissue paper
Colour in a paper teddy bear
Crayon some candy cushions
Recycle a milk carton into a mobile
Crete ethnic beads from felt
Make some wild animal pegs

Make these and many more using easy-to-follow instructions in Get Crafty Indoor Crafts.
. Straightforward, lively text guides the young person through a new project on each double-page section.
. Over 100 colour photographs illustrate craft activities.
. At a-glance guides to materials needed for individual projects.
. Special help boxes spread throughout the book.

. Ideas for further projects.

Thursday, 16 May 2013

My Art Book


Other Title: My art book :
Cover subtitle: Amazing art projects inspired by masterpieces
Contents: My art studio -- Animal magic : Lascaux caves -- Make a cave painting -- Dreaming dots : Balgo community -- Decorate a rock -- African masks : Kuba tribe -- Make a mask -- Fantastic faces : Giuseppe Arcimboldo -- Make a face -- Dragons and heroes : Katsushika Hokusai -- Print a picture -- Freeze frame : Edgar Degas -- Paint with pastels -- Swishes and swirls : Vincent van Gogh -- Paint a night sky -- Jungle fantasy : Henri Rousseau -- Create a collage jungle -- Musical painting : Wassily Kandinsky -- Paint to music -- Lines and shapes : Paul Klee -- Paint a town -- Mosaic magic : Diego Rivera -- Make a mosaic -- Lumps and bumps : Henry Moore -- Sculpt a figure -- Spirit art : Kenojuak Ashevak -- Build a bird -- Pop art prints : Andy Warhol -- Pop art portrait
Summary: An introduction to art and art history with instructions and step-by step photography showing how to create works of art like mosaics, sculptures, and collages

Friday, 11 May 2012

Great Art Attack Stuff

On cover: Paint, pop-ups, cartoons, collage, 3-D

Everyone can have an Art Attack!
TV's Neil Buchanan makes it easy!
Straight from the award-winning top children's TV series Art Attack.

Fantastic ideas for 3-D pictures, pop-up cards, wild cartoons, cool collages and mad models.