handicraft

With just a few supplies and easy-to-follow steps, create a marshmallow catapult. This project demonstrates how a simple machine and forces and motion send a sweet treat skyward.

Gather a few supplies and follow the simple steps to power a light with this fun science experiment!.

Step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs help readers create their own wind chimes.

Step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs help readers create their own paper spinner.

Step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs help readers create their own paper roll peacock.

Step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs help readers create their own place to store pencils, pens, and more.

Provides step-by-step instructions for forty origami projects.

". . . Kids ages seven and up will find hundreds of ways to build, play, experiment, craft, cook, dream, think, and become outstanding citizens of the world. This highly visual, hands-on activity book shows kids some of the best ways to do great things--from practicing the lost arts of knot-tying, building campfires, connecting circuits, playing jump rope, drawing maps, and writing letters, to learning how to empower themselves socially, emotionally, and in their communities. The final chapter, Do Great Things, inspires kids become caring individuals, confident problem solvers, and thoughtful people who can change the world"--Provided by publisher.

"Turn the clock back to a simpler time. Cold lemonade in summer, evenings by a campfire, a warm blanket in winter. Fully-illustrated chapters feature the history and story behind more than thirty skills, including: How to skip stones, how to wrap a package with brown paper and string, and how to grow your own tomatoes"--Provided by publisher.

Through easy-to-follow tutorials for over 100 projects that are both accessible and aspirational, Making Things invites readers to try their hands at a variety of crafts and celebrate the satisfaction that comes from slowly and carefully creating for oneself. Learn to fold magazine pages into Masu Boxes for organizing bits and bobs, make a cardboard loom for weaving potholders out of old linens, braid your own Kumihimo Dog Leash, or starch fabric scraps for decorative bunting. Makers Rose Pearlman and Erin Boyle met in 2018 and immediately struck up a friendship, united by a reverence for everyday objects. Their approach towards craft reflects a shared commitment to sustainability and accessibility - as they write in Making Things' introduction, "Craft can be exquisite and exacting, the result of formal training and years of practice, but it can also be experimental and messy and not quite perfect." Scouring sidewalks, stoops, and thrift stores, the authors repurpose materials to create projects that range from functional to fun and frivolous. Step-by-step guides make it simple to start and finish each project, while the book's stunning photographs show how each craft can fit within an organized, thoughtfully curated home. As Making Things demonstrates, relying on a limited range of supplies and repurposing the same materials can spur our creativity, encouraging us to look at a pile of junk on a stoop and see endless possibilities.