Crafts And Hobbies category: 435 books

Create handmade origami gifts for your friends and family, such as a pencil case, a gift box, or a paper flower bouquet. Step-by-step instructions and photographs guide readers through projects of varied difficulty. Crafters will increase visual-spatial reasoning skills while having fun.

Expand the world inside without turning on a screen even on a rainy day. Twenty-five projects and activities will keep readers occupied as they make a comic book, learn sign language basics, write a play, and more.

The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 by Popular Mechanics Company.Many projects are of contemporary interest—magic, kites and boomerangs for example. Try a "Querl" for starters.There are many projects of purely historical interest, such as chemical photography, phonographs, and devices for coal furnaces.

Do you know where milk and eggs come from? And that protein makes you stronger? This amusing board book, which is shaped like a refrigerator, shows many of the foods you typically find inside one, from plump strawberries and yummy apples to delicious milk, yogurt, fish, tofu, cheese, and many other...

Any master starts at the beginning. Dip your brush into oil, acrylic, and watercolor paints, and sharpen your pastels. Develop essential techniques that will propel your art from scribbles to masterpieces.

Style knows no age, but it does favor a certain language. "Oui Love Fashion" will teach your little one the names of fashion items in French and English. Each page features style-related images with the French phrase above and its English equivalent below. These items include clothes, accessories,...

This colouring book contains landmarks of the most ancient Italian city – Rome. Here you’ll find coloured examples with short descriptions and colouring pages. The colouring pages are printable. If you want to do painting on your computer, you can also take a screenshot of a colouring page. During...

In 1893, Friedrich Engels branded history 'the cruelest goddess of all.' This sorrowful vision of the past is deeply rooted in the Western imagination, and history is thus presented as a joyless playground of inevitability rather than a droll world of possibilities. There are few places this is more...

A practical, hands-on cookery book that makes it as easy as possible for parents, grandparents and carers to have fun cooking with a toddler aged 1 to 4 years old. Everything in Tickle Fingers is completely toddler appropriate with minimal need for adult intervention – no hobs, no sharp knives,...

Enter the world of creativity where children's imaginations soar with this broad spectrum of over 240 open-ended art activities and ideas. These projects allow each child to participate in an individual and unique art experience using common household items and ordinary art supplies.

People will marvel at these fantastic money tricks! With some practice, you'll soon be leaving audiences puzzled and amused. Simple step-by-step instructions and photos will teach you how to make money appear out of thin air, transform coupons into cash, and more!

From boats and fish to cranes and vases, exciting traditional and original paper folding projects await young origami artists. Organized from easy to challenging, each project includes clear, step by step, photo illustrated instructions that make developing paper folding skills fun. All projects also include creative tips for using and displaying models to impress friends and family.

Origami enthusiasts of all ages will delight in more than 40 exciting traditional and original paper folding projects. An array of animals, objects, containers, and flowers guarantee hours of paper crafting fun. With project progression from easy to challenging  and clear, step by step, photo illustrated...

Magical castles, hideaway caves, secret clubhouses, and rainy-day escapes. Forts can be just about anything. This guide to ultimate fort building lets readers put their engineering creativity to the test. They'll construct their own unique hideouts through easy, step-by-step activities. Helpful photographs...