paper crafts

Provides origami basics and step-by-step instructions for six origami projects.

Provides craft ideas made from recycled toilet paper rolls including a bat, unicorn, ninja, and shark.

Explains the materials and techniques of papier mache, and features instructions for over twenty papier mache projects, including human and animal figures, accessories, and jewelry.

Traces the history of paper cutting as an artistic medium, and introduces twenty-six contemporary paper cutting artists, with photographs of their work.

Contains instructions for making pop-ups, including a brief history of paper engineering and the mechanics of creating three-dimensional paper forms, with materials, photographs of the finished product, practice sheets, and storage pockets.

Twenty-five models, chiefly animals, native to North America: duck, swan, heron, roadrunner, saguaro cactus, prickly-pear cactus, jack rabbit, mouse, armadillo, bald eagle, bighorn sheep, bobcat, horned owl, quail, pheasant, squirrel, beaver, black bear, coyote, bison, racoon, deer, snowy owl, musk ox, and moose.

Directions for making large-scale, cardboard replicas of objects representative of American Indian and colonial life, such as houses, furniture, toys, and other artifacts.

Gives an account of the Spanish custom which began in Italy with a humble clay jar called the pignatta. Includes three stories for reading or telling and explanations of how to use a pinata and step-by-step directions, with photographs and diagrams, for making pinatas.