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Author
Publisher
Better Day Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Let's get crafty! Join internationally renowned artist and content creator Lucia Mallea on a fun and colorful crafting journey through 24 stylish projects. From stunning paper flowers and cheerful party decorations to DIY home decor and even stylish fashion accessories, you'll learn how to elevate inexpensive craft supplies into stunning works of art like cake stands, flower curtains, parrot earrings, statement stars, and more. Each project includes...
Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"The world is full of art! From paintings in museums to beautiful buildings, we see art everywhere we go. Get kids excited about making art themselves with this book of projects that inspires them to think like an artist and shows them how much fun it is to create with their own hands.." --Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Hungry Tomato Ltd
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Winter is a wonderful time to get creative! Let's make walnut reindeer on skis, a bright bird feeder, a bendy polar bear, and much more! This book will encourage you to get outdoors, gather awesome nature finds, and be inspired to create some amazing crafts to celebrate the season!" -- back cover.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Combining old-fashioned favorites with today's high-tech possibilities, the book offers a goldmine of creative, constructive activities that kids can do on their own or with their families. From camouflage techniques, survival skills, and cloudspotting advice to instructions on how to build an upcycled kite or raft, to using apps to navigate and explore, it's all here--along with comics that dive into the secret history of everything from bicycling...
Publisher
Potter Craft
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
" ... explores the many fun and interesting ways that digital-age parents and kids can get their geek on together. Imaginative ideas for all ages and budgets include thrifty Halloween costumes, homemade lava lamps, hobbit feasts, and magical role-playing games. There are even projects for moms to try when they have a few precious moments alone. With six sections spanning everything from home-science experiments to superheroes, this comprehensive handbook...
Author
Publisher
Rocky Nook Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
" Learn the essential skills you need to create garments and textile crafts from scratch! Welcome to the wide and wonderful world of sewing! You have your sewing machine at the ready-now what? For those DIYers who are ready to dive into garment and textile craft creation, Stitches and Seams teaches you essential skills that every beginner needs to know. Author and acclaimed sewing teacher Valeria Carrandi Macias walks new sewists through everything...
Author
Publisher
Interweave, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A brand new stitch dictionary from the author of the wildly popular, AlterKnit Stitch Dictionary. KnitOvation includes more than 150 brand new colorwork motifs to expand knitters' creative possibilities and draw them further into the world of stranded knitting with clever, quirky, and beautiful motifs including botanicals, animals, and geometric patterns. The motifs are accompanied by a selection of accessory and garment designs to illustrate how...
Author
Publisher
Cico Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
30 super-easy projects for beautiful and colorful homewares, accessories, and gifts. Punch-needle embroidery is the perfect creative and mindful hobby, and involves punching threads into fabric to form a design. Ideal for beginners, it requires just a punch-needle pen and a few basic supplies, and is also a great way of upcycling scraps of yarn or thread. With this beautifully illustrated book by Clare Youngs, you'll learn how to use this skill of...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Provides instructions for sixty-two projects made with broken computers and other discarded electronic devices, including a gear clock, keyboard lamp, capacitor earrings, RAM money clip, a laser gag zapper, floppy disk wall frame, earbud speakers, cell phone flashlight, and flat-screen ant farm, and includes information on tools, techniques, and safety.
Author
Publisher
Smith Street Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"As the sun sets on summer, there's no need to be sad. Fall is here, and it's time to carve some gourds! But pumpkins aren't just for teenagers to smash on Halloween--there are a multitude of uses for this versatile produce, and Oh My Gourd! is your go-to gourd guide, with how-to-carve step-by-step instructions, 20 pumpkin recipes, 9 other uses for pumpkins and gourds, and 2 pumpkin carving stencils. Get back to the basics with a handy step-by-step...
Publisher
Magic Cat Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Celebrate at the tables of artists, designers, and chefs with this book that offers families the chance to share in a world of parties, festivals, and holidays. Each spread features a different holiday and offers a step-by-step recipe, a craft activity, a personal story, and different ways to observe the holiday. With contributions from chefs such as Erin Gleeson and Joanne Chang; artists and authors including Dow Phumiruk and Queenie Chan; and designers...
Publisher
Highlights Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This highly visual, hands-on activity book shows kids some of the best ways to do great things--from practicing the lost arts of knot-tying, building campfires, connecting circuits, playing jump rope, drawing maps, and writing letters, to learning how to empower themselves socially, emotionally, and in their communities. The final chapter, Do Great Things, inspires kids become caring individuals, confident problem solvers, and thoughtful people who...
Author
Publisher
Search Press Limited
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Gnomes for your home! Stitch a year-round collection of 12 friendly gnomes for your home using this fabulous new book by sewing superstar Debbie Shore. Gnomes aren't just for winter! Sewing superstar Debbie Shore presents a friendly, fashion-forward, all new collection of 12 gnomes for your home, based on her hugely popular Erik and Ola creations from Half Yard (TM) Winter. Beginning with all the materials and tools you'll need, as well as guidance...
Author
Publisher
Schiffer Craft
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Flowers and botanicals are an ever-popular way to create stunning arrangements and decorations, and using dried flowers will ensure that those decorations will remain beautiful and elegant for years to come. Florist Ivana Jost brings you the best tips and techniques for treating and drying flowers, grasses, branches, and other greenery. Jost also presents detailed lists of which botanicals are best for drying and using in your crafts, as well as...
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Jam-packed with imaginative ideas for all kinds of creative crafts . . . this book will make YOU an artist! Pick up your pencils, collect your collage materials, and take inspiration from 25 of the world's best-known artists in this fact-filled book full of activities. Discover famous masterpieces through the included photographs of real works of art - from ancient cave painting to contemporary performance - and lots more in between!"-- Provided...
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mending With Kids shows you how to take torn, stained and outgrown kids' clothes and make them better than before using a variety of simple techniques that you can actually do with your kids. This book is filled with helpful tips and techniques for patching, collage (with felt and fabrics), iron-ons, stenciling, darning, embroidery, hand-painting, and much more! Best of all, most of these techniques are easy enough for kids to join in and put their...