models and modelmaking

Helps young students understand the purpose of maps, showing how real life locations can be depicted in small models, and how that information can then be placed on maps.

Presents instructions for creating models, animals, and other objects from LEGO bricks, including a fairy tale cottage, an underwater scene, a triceratops, and a skeleton.

Presents LEGO creations intended for children ages 5 and up, including animals to airplanes, a school scene to seascapes and much more.

Includes instructions for twenty-five LEGO creations intended for children ages 5 and up.

"[Presents a] comprehensive visual guide to all the minifigures, vehicles and sets, including the LEGO Batman Movie sets"-- Amazon.

Race car, snowmobile, double-decker bus...what will you build today? From the popular series of visually rich instruction books for LEGO creations, this book highlights cars, trucks, snow machines--even scooters--that move people around on land. Customized for children ages 5 and up, there's a range of creative models to put together using the LEGO Classic set 10695, LEGO Architecture Studio 21050, LEGO Education Wheels Set 4598357, or bricks that LEGO obsessives may already have at home. Each book in this interactive series contains 3-5 "dioramas" featuring a diverse range of models. Full color, step-by-step diagrams guide you through the process, enhancing the fun.

Doug and Andy are unlikely best friends--one a loner obsessed by his model trains, the other a popular student involved in football and theater--but even that friendship cannot keep Doug from sinking farther and farther into the grip of insanity.

"Hitting the bricks has never been so much fun! Anyone with a drawer full of LEGO bricks will be able to build and customize these 40 unique projects. Based on the brick selection found in some of LEGO's Classic series, each project is a great way to test out unusual building techniques or to mix up pieces from kits that have already been broken up. Let "Brick Buildings" take you to new, creative heights with these projects--many of which use fewer than 100 bricks"--Back cover.

"Scale models are usually built as accurate miniatures of real objects such as vehicles, buildings, and even people. This . . . introduction to model making explains the mathematics of scale, and the difference between building from a kit and building from scratch. Tips on painting, scoring, cementing, and weathering help build fine-motor skills"--Provided by publisher.

Contains forty models for LEGO brick art of mythical creatures and monsters that requires less than 100 pieces.