Reid, Emily

A step-by-step guide to using various materials and recyclables to create actual music instruments, such as bongo drums, tambourines, guitars, and pan flutes. Includes color patterns.

"Handmade holiday gifts are a wonderful way to show people you care about them. Readers learn to make a variety of holiday gifts themselves as they follow along with step-by-step instructions and helpful photographs. The creative gifts readers can make include photo coasters, journals, backpacks, and birdhouses. They learn the basic techniques needed to make these gifts, and then they're able to practice those techniques in many fun ways. Each project is presented in a colorful way that's sure to capture and hold the attention of readers"--Provided by the publisher.

"Making music is fun, but it's even more fun when you make the musical instruments, too! Readers follow a series of step-by-step instructions to create their own musical instruments, such as bongo drums, tambourines, and guitars. Each step is presented to readers through clear text and detailed photographs. Accessible language and a colorful design help replicate the feeling of a makerspace, a place of creativity where people learn together. Learning to make a variety of musical instruments is a fun way to foster that sense of creativity in readers"--Provided by the publisher.

Readers learn to make their own jet gliders, sailboats, sock puppets, and other toys and games with each turn of the page.

Readers learn to make a variety of holiday gifts, including photo coasters, journals, backpacks, and birdhouses.

Readers will find accessible, step-by-step instructions as they make amazing costumes, including a pirate, a fairy, an alien, and a superhero.