Chapman, Gillian

Projects based on various features of Aztec culture recreate some of their arts and crafts, including woven textiles, mosaic masks, jewelry, featherwork, and wheeled toys.

Describes various aspects of life in ancient Greece and provides instructions for creating related crafts, including labyrinths, a bronze helmet, and a Trojan horse.

Includes instructions on making different crafts from rocks, shells, feathers, and jetsam.

Presents techniques for making several kinds of art with different sorts of packaging, including puppets, toys, foil figures, and woven baskets and boxes, and includes photos of examples.

Provides instructions for art projects which use wood and other parts of a tree, including twig animals, branch collages, leaf baskets, and more.

Presents techniques for making several kinds of art with sand and earth, including sand paintings and molds, rock art, mud prints, and others, and provides photos of examples.

Instructions for making a clay whistle, rock carving, string bowl, and other crafts using renewable resources from the earth.

Instructions for making prints from bubblewrap, puppets from cardboard boxes, and other arts and crafts projects using discarded packaging.

Presents techniques for making several kinds of art with shells and rocks, including mosaics, moving collages, seashore bulletin boards, board games, and others, and provides photos of examples.