plastics craft

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.

Information about plastic model kits, how they originated, their components, how to put them together, how to display them, and how to join with other groups of modelmakers.

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

Step-by-step directions for modeling three different dinosaurs from papier-m?ch? and reinforced styrofoam.

Step-by-step instructions explain how to create toys, games, decorations, and other crafts from plastic bottles and tubs.

Provides instructions for a variety of craft projects for young children using plastic cups.

Presents full-color step-by-step instructions for creating eight art-foam projects including masks, napkin rings, pencil holder, crown, and more.

Provides instructions for creating jewelry from shrink plastic, including design templates for necklaces, earrings, brooches, bracelets, and more.

Presents an introduction to techniques for making plastic and resin jewelry, with insights from contemporary artists, and the basics of sawing, drilling, joining, laminating, mixing, curing, adding inclusions, finishing, and more, with photographic demonstrations of twenty-two projects.