Earth-Friendly Crafts Clever Ways to Reuse Everyday Items

Kathy Ross, "Earth-Friendly Crafts: Clever Ways to Reuse Everyday Items Library Binding"
Publisher: Millbrook Pr | 2009 | ISBN: 0822590999 | English | PDF | 48 pages | 9.6 Mb

“What do you do with old toys, clothes, and other stuff? Instead of throwing them away, get creative and see what crafts you can make! This book shows you how to make crafts out of old playing cards, marker caps, toy cars, neckties, hairbrushes, and more. Color photos of the finished crafts and step-by-step illustrations make these crafts a snap. Along with 21 crafts, you'll find information about recycling and tips for what you can do to help the planet. So find new uses for your old stuff and get crafting!

Age Range: 7 and up
Grade Level: 2 and up

Written by the author of more than 50 crafts books, this clear, colorful title offers a selection of environmentally focused projects that encourage kids to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Both practical and eye-catching, the projects, from pencil cups to decorative pins, rely on everyday discarded items that many kids will find around their homes: broken toys, old clothespins, worn out bath sponges, and lone socks that have lost their mates. Kids may need to purchase supplementary staples to complete the crafts, which are presented in line drawings that demonstrate construction step by step along with color photos of the finished product. Finding new uses for old items is a crafting tradition, but the environmental emphasis feels fresh in this roundup of approachable, inviting projects. A list of resources and tips close. Grades 3-6. --Gillian Engberg”
About the Author
Kathy Ross is the author of more than 50 craft books that have sold well over 1.5 million copies. A former pre-school teacher and curriculum developer, she consults for Highlights magazine, Highsmith, and Nickelodeon on early elementary school matters
Céline Malépart has been an illustrator since 1987. She has produced illustrations for children's books, as well as editorial illustrations for magazines in Canada, the United States, and France. For the last five years, she has also explored the world of fine art. She lives in Montreal in a three-story crooked blue house with her family, her gizmos, her orange kitchen, her striped walls, her extended collection of winter hats, her fiberglass mannequins, her messy studio, and her three cats who have a great gift for conversation.



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