Get Crafty
Introduction:
As the temperatures drop and winter holidays approach, it's a good time to Get Crafty! Learn to make stuff for fun and to give as gifts. Here are some websites and books that show you how.
Internet Links:
Articlemyriad.comhttp://www.articlemyriad.com/recycling-paper-arts-crafts-for-kids/
Have fun with recycle paper-crafts from making your own recycled sheet of paper to paperbowls, greeting cards and toys.
Boondoggleman.comhttp://www.boondoggleman.com/the_projects.htm
Make lanyard projects, from beginner level to complex, by weaving, braiding, or knotting the lanyard into a variety of projects. The website provides pictures and a step-by-step procedure to complete each project. There are over forty projects including key chains, bracelets, and necklaces.
Capstone Kids: Make Stuffhttp://capstonekids.com/make-stuff/
Recipes and instructions for some really fun projects! Take your paper airplanes to new heights. Make your own glitter nail polish or some movie party snack mix.
The Long Thread – crafts for kidshttp://thelongthread.com/?page_id=2827
Crafter and writer Ellen Luckett Baker’s blog highlights lots of unique craft projects that kids can make.
Marcel’s Kid Craftshttp://www.marcels-kid-crafts.com/
Marcel is an art student who shares what he’s learned with other kids. Let him show you beading projects, patterns for paper snowflakes, stamping, mosaics, and more.
The Toymakerhttp://www.thetoymaker.com/
Printable paper toys, crafts, and gifts. You can also read stories and journal entries from the artist.
Ziggity Zoomhttp://www.ziggityzoom.com/
Check out Ziggity Zoom’s crafts page for things you can make for the holidays and projects for any time like a CD garden or a puppet theater.
Database
New Book of Popular Science
This science encyclopedia includes some cool projects like how to make your own stethoscope or a pinhole camera to view a solar eclipse.
This science encyclopedia includes some cool projects like how to make your own stethoscope or a pinhole camera to view a solar eclipse.
Print Resources
by Ellen Warwick
Have some milk and egg cartons at home? This book shows you how to turn them into fifty fun craft projects, including gorgeous glitter flowers, a fortune teller, cow clock, and party purse.
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With step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions, this boredom-busting book shows you how to create more than 100 great projects using readily available materials.
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By Kathy Ross; illlustrated by Vicky Enright
Create twenty-nine craft items for the winter season. Projects include a New Year's noisemaker, baggy snowman, lacy snowflake, and Valentine gifts and cards.
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by Cousins, Lucy
Let Maisy show you how! Easy, safe, and fun, these craft projects for the very young were put together and photographed by Lucy Cousins herself.
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by Sarah Hines Stephens and Bethany Mann
Presents simple illustrated instructions that teach readers how to create and perform tricks and create crafts, including becoming a zombie, creating thunder, and turning drink mix into hair dye.
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by Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt
Learn step-by-step how to use duct tape into a cell phone pouch, wallet, checkerboard and more.
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by Kimberly Monaghan
Learn with fun-filled craft activities about reusing, reducing, and recycling.
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by Laurie Goldrich Wolf ; photos by Bruce Wolf
What can you make out of your old bits of paper, leftover pieces of yarn, or not-so-brand-new cartons and containers? Craft your own purse out of playing cards, whip up a scrapbook made of cereal boxes, or a dollhouse from an empty juice carton! Tweens and teens can start crafting using the easy to follow instructions and photographic directions the smart way. All crafts are made out of materials that many of us find just lying around the house or sitting on the curb waiting to be tossed in a landfill. Overpriced decor, fashion, and gifts are out, and recyclable crafts are in!
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