Readers will learn how to make a variety of cards, masks, and presents with this hands-on craft series. Crafty Kids was developed to help build reading confidence with sections to promote referencing skills and provide a model for children's own writing.
Readers will start their own band after they create these ten musical instruments for next to nothing. Readers learn how to make everything from maracas to a xylophone using inexpensive materials found at home or in the classroom. Make panpipes, a Colonial drum, or a ukulele.
Any child who can make a stick figure can learn to create funny cartoons—and this enjoyably illustrated guide tells them exactly how. Written by professional cartoonist Art Roche, it gives kids lots of hands-on opportunities to turn their creative ideas into delightfully drawn reality. Roche encourages budding artists to develop a personal vision, rather than trace or copy someone elses style…
Do you know how to paint a watercolor wash splatter paint print patterns with plastic wrap or create resist effects with oil pastels? Packed full of ideas for painting drawing printing and doing collages this inspiring book will help develop your art skills. It will also give you lots of exciting ways to use different art materials. Either follow the simple step-by-step instructions exactly or …
Clever illustrations and story lines, together with full-color reproductions of actual paintings, give children a light yet realistic overview of Leonardo DaVinci's life and style.
One day a boy falls down a hole, and an amazing thing happens — when he wakes, he’s in a camp full of people wearing animal skins! Mixing flight of fancy with prehistoric facts, Satoshi Kitamura ushers us back to a time of surprising innovation and artistic expression, shown in cave paintings visible to this day.
Readers will learn how to make a variety of cards, masks, and presents with this hands-on craft series. Crafty Kids was developed to help build reading confidence with sections to promote referencing skills and provide a model for children's own writing.
Can rocks have snot? Why do doughnuts have holes in the middle? Could a human child ever be raised by animals? What do hyenas have to laugh about? And why is it impossible to belch after blast-off?! This hilarious book contains the answers to these incredible questions and more that will boggle your brain.
EVER WONDERED ...Why we burp? What a wotsit is? Whether lemmings really jump off cliffs? Why vomit always contains carrots? And why do farts smell like rotten eggs? No subject is too strange and no trivia too tough for Mitchell Symons, who has the answer to these crazy questions, and many more.