MAKING FLOWER CHILDREN - Sybille Adolphi
Here are detailed step-by-step instructions and illustrations
for making a range of lively, creative flower figures. Activities are organised by season, making the book ideal for decorating a nature corner or seasonal table in the home or classroom.
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TOYMAKING WITH CHILDREN. - Freya Jaffke
The toys surrounding a child during the first five years of life are of great importance. They awaken imagination and stimulate creativity. Freya Jaffke has suggestions for making a wide variety of toys, including wooden boats, log trains, doll’s furniture, rag dolls, puppets and soft animals.
This greatly expanded edition is an excellent handbook with plenty of ideas for the parents and teachers of young children.
158 pages |
CREATIVE FELT - Angelika Wolk-Gerche
- Felting and making Toys and Gifts.
People have been making felt for thousands of years, and there has been a recent upsurge in interest in traditional textile techniques. Containing easy, step-by-step instructions, accompanied by helpful photographs and diagrams, this is an invaluable book for modern feltmaking. It also contains a wealth of ideas of things to make with felt; ranging from toys and dolls to beautiful accessories and gifts.
91 pages |
THE GNOME CRAFT BOOK - Thomas and Petra Berger
Gnome craft offers a wealth of possibilities for children, appealing to their imagination in a vivid and entertaining manner.
Thomas and Petra Berger show how to make gnomes out of walnuts, twigs, wool, and paper, as well as from a variety of other materials. There are plenty of different types of gnomes to keep children amused for hours.
80 pages |
FELTCRAFT. - Petra Berger
- Making Dolls, Gifts and Toys
Wool Felt is a durable and flexible material ideal for children to work with. Petra Berger offers detailed instructions for a range of lively and creative ideas using felt. Continuing a tradition passed down from her grandmother, she makes small dolls, finger and glove puppets, animals, wristbands, little gifts and even wall tapestries. It can also be used for decorating cushions or other objects. She has tried all these ideas with her own children.
87 pages |
KNITTED ANIMALS. - Anne-Dorthe Grigaff
Here is an irresistable collection of animals to knit in soft, natural materials: ducklings, teddy bears, lambs, piglets, a handsome rooster and many more. Most of the projects can be easily and cheaply knitted with small oddments of wool, and many can be completed in an hour or two.
Step-by-step instructions for making over 20 delightful, soft knitted animals. The finished designs make enchanting children’s toys and gifts or decoration for the nature or season table.
60 pages Hardback |
THE EASTER CRAFT BOOK. - Thomas and Petra Berger
Easter time has a traditional wealth of symbols representing new life and rebirth: the eggs, the hares, the chicken and the lamb, Mother Earth and the flower children, birds and butterflies.
The authors show how to make Easter figures and decorations of dough, wool, felt or tissue paper, different ways of decorating eggs, making egg cosies, puppets and creating a festive table.
87 pages |
THE CHRISTMAS CRAFT BOOK - Thomas Berger
Simply made decorations for home or school are an absorbing way for children to become involved in the celebration of Advent and Christmas. The decorations are all described and fully illustrated with colour photographs.
88 pages |
THE NATURE CORNER. -M Leeuwen and J Moeskops
- Celebrating the year’s cycle with a seasonal table.
Seasonal nature tables are an invaluable way of making young children aware of the changing cycle of the year. With simple materials and basic knitting and crocheting skills a series of colourful and effective tableaux can be made at home or in school for depicting seasons and major festivals.
Instructions and diagrams are provided for making the figure and objects, along with basic hints for setting up the table and
involving children.
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CRAFTS THROUGH THE YEAR .
- Thomas and Petra Berger
Simply made decorations for home or school are an absorbing way for children to become involved in the celebration of the festivals of the year. The authors show how to make almost 200
different things,ranging from decorating Easter eggs or candles, making corn-dollies and straw horses, to cutting Christmas transparencies.
117 pages Hardback |
PAINTING WITH CHILDREN - Brunhild Muller
A vital factor in a child’s development is the stimulation of active imagination and creativity. Here are ideas for encouraging self-expression through water-colour painting. Essentially practical, this guide covers preparation, colour-stories and poems, painting moods of nature and the seasons of the year.
48 pages |
MAKING DOLLS - Sunnhild Reinckens
This book describes how to make seventeen different kinds of doll : for instance, a cuddly doll for toddlers, a large baby doll, finger puppets, gnomes, dolls for a doll’s house, and many more.
77 pages |
MAGIC WOOL - Dagmar Schmidt and Freya Jaffke
- Creative Activities with Natural Sheep’s Wool.
Activities with unspun sheep’s wool offer a wide range of creative possibilities for both children and adults. The colours and textures of natural wool appeal to the imagination in a vivd and inspirational manner.
77 pages |
MORE MAGIC WOOL - Angelika Wolk-Gerche
- Creating Figures and Pictures with Dyed Wool.
Plant-dyed unspun sheep’s wool offers a wide range of creative possibilities for creating scenes which appeal to the imagination in a vivid and inspirational manner.
80 pages |
EARTHWISE - Carol Petrash
- Environmental Crafts and Activities with Young Children.
Full of practical ideas for nature crafts and seasonal activities to encourage young children to be aware of their environment. Carefully written and beautifully illustrated.
160 pages |
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