Grade Level: Second - Fifth Grade
Product #: 1003195
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Inspire creativity with 90 hands-on activities that have easy-to-follow directions. The exciting projects in this book will provide your children with many happy hours of creative activity.

"Materials" lists everything necessary to complete the project. The main craft ideas are extended with "More Ideas", which offers alternatives for decorating and using the completed projects and for creating different ones.

Most materials are readily available from hobby shops, hardware and fabric stores, or your local grocery. You may find some of the materials in your home-or even in your own backyard. Don't be afraid to substitute if you think something else may work instead of-or better than-what is suggested. The emphasis here is on being creative.

For your convenience, the crafts are divided into sections according to the main type of material used:

• Paper Productions: Create fantastic paper products like a rocking horse, newspaper fan, and building logs.
• Kitchen Capers: Craft everyday food items into potato hedgehogs, apple votive candles, or pasta butterflies.
• Natural Necessities: Design dandelion jewelry, mud building bricks, or nature masks.
• Claydough Creations: Learn the best recipes for modeling everything from birthday candle holders to potted plant people.
• Fabric Finery: Convert fabric, ribbon, felt, and yarn into everything from dolls to indoor tennis rackets.
• Hardware Handiwork: Turn old nuts, bolts, washers, cans, and cup hooks into wind chimes and sculptures.
• Trash Treasures: Create new items from cans, milk jugs, and egg cartons.