The Art of Paper Quilling: Designing Handcrafted Gifts and Cards
An exquisite paper art book featuring quilling techniques for cards and gifts. With a focus on simple, elegant projects, the The Art of Paper Quilling offers paper crafters a complete technique guide along with step-by-step project ideas for making beautiful framed pieces, cards, gifts, and more. The designs are all built upon simple rolled coils of paper that when grouped together, form intricate flowers, graceful butterflies, and delicate scrollwork.
Felt Jewelry: 25 Pieces to Make Using a Variety of Simple Felting Techniques
The author of Heartfelt and Textile Jewelry is back with more of her exceptionally lovely designs for using felt in creative ways. As felt is easy to make and work with it has become a favorite material used by crafters, knitters and others, and now combined with other decorative elements, like decorative stitching and beads it becomes irresistible!
In There With The Kids: Crafting Lessons That Connect With Students
The best teachers, says David Kobrin, think about who their students are and how they learn. In this age of standardized tests and "teacher-proof" lesson plans, they recognize that teaching is a rich and complex activity that demands professional skill, sound judgment, and quick thinking.
Grade 2-5–These 22 projects range from clever and cute (finger puppets made from balloons) to mundane and forgettable (Soda Bottle Mouse). The author dives right in with a promising Earth-Friendly Crafting Box but after three pages of instructions most kids will have lost interest. The remaining crafts are mostly two pages in length and include an illustrated supplies list and mostly clear directions. Materials include sequins, magnetic tape, pom-poms, and beads in addition to common household objects. For a more extensive collection of projects that seriously espouse the three R's (reduce, reuse, recycle)
