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Rediscover a more child-like approach to creating with Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals! Through fun and creative exercises, Carla Sonheim teaches you to draw a variety of fun animals and creatures, including:-Dogs- Birds- Elephants- Fish- Cats- Rabbits- And many othersYou'll also find a variety of unique mixed-media techniques to help you bring your creatures to life, resulting in a unique finished art piece. Improve your drawing skills, expand your creativity, and learn new art techniquesand have loads of fun doing it!with Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals.

With the detailed visual and written instructions in Let's Draw Dinosaurs, budding artists will be creating their own amazing, lifelike prehistoric animal masterpieces in no time at all!

Relax with Color Beautiful Flowers, featuring 30+ original designs by F. Sehnaz Bac, ready for your paints, markers, pencils, or pens.

Getting messy is the best part of creating! Get Messy Art gives you the freedom, inspiration, and ideas to experiment and play with art techniques and projects to create perfectly imperfect art. We're always told that play and experimentation is the foundation of growing as an artist. But where do you start? Where to find new techniques to try? How do you bring them all together? Get Messy Art has all the guidance, instruction, and inspiration you need. Based on the popular online class and community website Get Messy Art, this book brings together tons of creative art techniques and projects, including painting with watercolor and acrylic, mark-making, drawing with markers and pen and ink, sketching faces, and much more. The fun doesn't stop there. You'll also learn how to make your own art journals and trendy junk journalseasy handmade books to work in that are personalized and one of a kind. In Get Messy Art you'll discover: A welcoming environment that encourages play and experimentation, to help you become the artist you always wanted to be.How to use no-rules, no-stress art techniques as a creative outlet to express feelings.Actionable inspiration that will keep you going, even when motivation is scarce.Fresh techniques that will show you innovative ways to use low-cost supplies such as paint and mediums, stencils, pens, and paper.Easy background techniques that will get you started and banish fear of the blank page.The satisfaction of making your own unique journals using simple methods. Ultimately, art is all about creating for the sake of creating. It's powerful, it's cathartic, it's messyand it's all yours. It's time to get messy!

Learn how to apply interesting and inspired surface techniques to your ceramic work through 20 step-by-step projects.Carve Your Clay takes youthrough creative techniques that produce amazing, dynamic results, including inlay, piercing, sgraffito, etching, relief carving, wire cutting, and more.Gain new skills as you complete 20 projects featuring author Hilda Carrssignature style, each with clear step-by-step photography and easy-to-follow instruction to achieve beautiful results. This comprehensive book includes an easy guide on how to create basic forms, as well as glazing and firing techniques. Whether you are new to ceramics or are a more experienced potter looking to explore new surface design techniques,Carve Your Claywill educate and inspire you.

The Everyday Blacksmith empowers hobbyist blacksmiths to make simple, practical projects for everyday use.

Discover how to preserve your favorite foods in every season with the easy techniques and recipes in Real Food Fermentation: Preserving Whole Fresh Food with Live Cultures in Your Home Kitchen. Learn the process of fermentation from start to finish, and stock your pantry and refrigerator with delicious fruits, vegetables, dairy, and more. Fermenting is an art and a science, and Alex Lewin expertly takes you through every step, including an overview of food preserving and the fermentation process. Get to know the health benefits of fermented foods, and learn the best tools, supplies, and ingredients to use. Then start making wholesome preserved foods and beverages with step-by-step recipes for sauerkraut, kombucha, kefir, yogurt, preserved lemons, chutney,kimchi,and more, getting the best out of every season's bounty. The book is filled with beautiful photos and clear instructions help you build your skills with confidence. It's no wonder people are fascinated with fermentingthe process is user friendly, and the rewards are huge. Inside you'll find:an overview of the art and craft of home preservingwhy fermented foods are good for youhow to troubleshoot recipes, and how to modify them to suit your tastewhich vegetables and fruits are best for fermentationthe best seasonings to usehow to ferment dairy products to create yogurt, kefir, and buttermilkhow to create fermented beverages, including mead, wine, and ginger aleWith this book as your guide, you'll feel in control of your food and your health. See why so many people are discovering the joys of fermenting!

Turn a simple ball of yarn into kid-friendly knitting projects that don't require needles with the ideas in Finger Knitting Fun: 28 Cute, Clever, and Creative Projects for Kids.

Adapted from Melissa Leapman's Indispensable Stitch Collection for Crocheters, this beautiful, comprehensive, and easy-to-tote stitch pattern companion is a must-have for your crochet project bag! In a small, easy-to-tote format, Essential Crochet Next Level Stitches is a concise stitch dictionary featuring 100 stitch patterns for textures, colorwork, and fancy edgings. This rich library of crochet stitch designs covers a wide range of patterns, from a braided cable to a reversible brocade to a delicate edging. Each stitch pattern includes a photo of a finished swatch and both easy-to-read instructions and a stitch diagram using international symbols. Choose the format that makes you and your crochet hook happy. Most of the patterns are original and accessible to most skill levels. If you've mastered looping yarn over your hook to create a simple chain, you already possess all the skills you need to create an infinite number of stitch patterns. With information on how to read the patterns, shaping pieces, and designing from scratch, the stunning stitch patterns in Essential Crochet Next Level Stitches will serve as a launching pad for your own fun experimentation when creating unique designs for gorgeous hats, scarves, gloves, sweaters, vests, and more! The Pocket Guides series from Quarry Books offer authoritative instruction and inspiration in a small-scale format that makes it easy to take with you on all your crafting adventures.

Adapted from Melissa Leapman's Indispensable Stitch Collection for Crocheters, this beautiful, comprehensive, and easy-to-tote stitch pattern companion is a must-have for your crochet project bag! In a small, easy-to-tote format, Essential Crochet Starter Stitches is a concise stitch dictionary featuring 100 stitch patterns for solids, shells and fans, openwork and lace, and simple edgings. This rich library of crochet stitch designs covers a wide range of patterns, from a thicket pattern to summertime shells to clover lace. Each stitch pattern includes a photo of a finished swatch and both easy-to-read instructions and a stitch diagram using international symbols. Choose the format that makes you and your crochet hook happy. Most of the patterns are original and are accessible to most skill levels. If you've mastered looping yarn over your hook to create a simple chain, you already possess all the skills you need to create an infinite number of stitch patterns. With information on how to read the patterns, shaping pieces, and designing from scratch, the stunning stitch patterns in Essential Crochet Starter Stitches will serve as a launching pad for your own fun experimentation and for creating unique designs for gorgeous hats, scarves, gloves, sweaters, vests, and more! The Pocket Guides series from Quarry Books offer authoritative instruction and inspiration in a small-scale format that makes it easy to take with you on all your crafting adventures.

Make learning fun and engaging with Nature School: Planet Earth: The Workbook, a hands-on, write-in companion activity book to Nature School: Planet Earth. Created for children ages 6 to 12, this workbook will get them thinking and keep them coming back for more! Your kids will love completing games, puzzles, and short nature lessons while creating a record of what they've learned. Over 100 FUN activities--Dive into art, science, reading, logic, geography, and more. Learn anytime, anywhere--Bring Nature School: Planet Earth: The Workbook with you to the great outdoors, in the car, to school, or while you're spending time at home. Let them show you what they know--This workbook gets children excited about learning and gives them the opportunity to demonstrate what they've learned. Explore the Earth's stunning structure, the foremost features that enable it to support life, and it's amazing variety of life as well as its place in the Universe. Complete activities about Earth's geographical characteristics, atmosphere, natural resources, and ecosystems. As kids make their way through the workbook--used alone or alongside the companion book, Nature School: Planet Earth--their appreciation for our planet will grow.

Inspire a child's love for our planet and its place in the universe through fascinating bite-size facts, captivating illustrations, and more than 30 hands-on activities. From the expansive universe to tiny micro-ecosystems, Nature School: Planet Earth explores the intricacies of the planet we call home. Discover details about Earth's stunning structure, its amazing atmosphere, and the foremost features that enable it to support life. Learning through both physical and life science lenses, you will come to truly appreciate planet Earth. Following the format of the award-winning Nature School: Lessons and Activities to Inspire Children's Love for Everything Wild, each chapter of this book concludes with a series of suggested hands-on activities. Great for both home and school settings, it is the perfect guide for families and children ages 6-12 who are looking for an introduction to Earth science that includes the location, structure, atmosphere, and biosphere of our planet. The book explores: Earth's place in the Universe with a quick overview of what we know about our Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and our Solar System and a discussion of Earth's relationship with our moon, the Sun, and how Earth moves in space. The composition of Earth, covering topics such as the size and shape of Earth, gravity, Earth's magnetic field, and geographical characteristics. Earth's atmosphere, including its composition and physical properties, weather, and what we see in the night sky. All the elements and circumstances that make life on Earth possible: our natural resources, energy flow, life at different latitude and longitudes, and various life cycles. Earth as a community: interconnection, ecology, and biomes, the amazing variety of life--their connections through their communities and food webs, our ever-changing Earth, and viewing the Earth as part of the wider universe. Nature School: Planet Earth helps children and families relate to these topics in a meaningful way and ultimately understand the science behind what makes life on Earth possible.

Stitch 16 stunning quilts and patchwork projects based on four underlying "blueprints," while learning skills to create your own original designs. Uncover the mystery of quilt design with Anna Maria's Blueprint Quilting. Celebrated fiber artist Anna Maria Parry demystifies her seemingly complex patterns and sumptuous color combinations as she breaks down her signature designs into accessible "blueprints," or underlying structures. This accessible, visually inspiring book features: A behind-the-scenes glimpse into a master quilt designer's process Four quilt blueprints and accessible projects for different skill levels Techniques for intensifying details, adjusting colors, and scaling designs for endless possibilities Insight into planning and executing quilting and appliqué techniques Clear illustrations and photography for an inspiring and informative experience QR codes linked to videos that further illuminate important techniques With easy-to-follow projects and insightful techniques for all levels of quilters, Anna Maria's Blueprint Quilting will empower your quilting journey as you infuse your creations with the beauty and inspiration found within Parry's extraordinary designs.

Nature School: The Workbook is an interactive, write-in companion to Nature School featuring dozens of fun activities and engaging prompts.

Drawing Trees and Leaves merges information, inspiration and instruction to guide readers to develop their drawing skills and powers of observation.

With the detailed visual and written instructions in Let’s Draw Birds & Butterflies, budding artists will be creating their own amazing, lifelike animal masterpieces in no time at all!

With the detailed visual and written instructions in Let's Draw Wild Animals, budding artists will be creating their own amazing, lifelike animal masterpieces in no time at all!

With the detailed visual and written instructions in Let's Draw Dogs, budding artists will be creating their own amazing, lifelike canine masterpieces in no time at all!

With the detailed visual and written instructions in Let's Draw Favorite Animals, budding artists will be creating their own amazing, lifelike animal masterpieces in no time at all!

With the detailed visual and written instructions in Let’s Draw Cats, budding artists will be creating their own amazing, lifelike feline masterpieces in no time at all!

The Know-Nonsense Guide to Money features simple definitions, memorable examples, and funny illustrations that make the way we use currency easy for kids to understand.

Mittens are the ideal small knitting project and make a great gift for anyone in the family. Learn the basics and create six knitted mitten styles that suit just about everyone! Easy-Knit Mittens is a detailed knitting booklet that includes six hat knitting patterns in all sizes. Designed with beginners in mind, these stylish, traditional projects have helpful introductions, sizing information, and step-by-step photos.

"Be the kind of parent that your teen will look at you and think, I SURE GOT A GOOD DEAL!" This easy-to-follow, hands-on guide makes living with and loving teenagers a fun and exciting adventure. Within these pages lies the simple secrets of family happiness that you can apply to your own family today!

In Science Art and Drawing Games for Kids, you'll find an amazing collection of more than 35 hands-on art activities that make learning about science fun. Often art and science are seen as opposites but, in fact, they are virtually inseparable! Written by Karyn Trippauthor of Math Art and Drawing Games for Kids and creator of the popular educational blog TeachBesideMe.comthis book shows kids how art involves all kinds of science and how science is full of art and beauty. Children ages 8 and up will follow step-by-step, photo-illustrated instructions to explore an engaging variety of art and craft techniques and science concepts, including: Energy & Motion. Create art, toys, and sculptures that spin, flap, and climb. Electricity & Magnetism. Make special light-up greeting cards, and use magnets to create abstract paintings and solve mazes. Living Science. Craft tiny terrariums, create plantable seed paper, and make your own paints using natural materials. Chemical Reactions. Create exploding paintballs, grow a garden of crystal flowers, and learn to make plastic out of milk. Color & Light. Combine shaving cream and food coloring to make marbled paper, use the sun to print on paper and fabric, and make an awesome kaleidoscope from scratch. As you and your kids try the projects, you'll learn the science behind how and why they work. ';Science in Action' terms highlighted throughout the projects are defined in a glossary of key science concepts at the front of the book. Each project is accompanied by a supplies list, and a full list of supplies for all the activities at the beginning helps you gather what you need before you dive in. Many of the supplies needed for the projects are common household items that you likely already have on hand, while some are specialty items you will need to acquire in advance. Take a creative path to studying science with Science Art and Drawing Games for Kids!

Loaded with hands-on, kid-friendly projects, Natural History Collector: Hunt, Discover, Learn!will teach budding nature collectors techniques for cleaning, caring for, and displaying discovered treasures. Coming home from the beach or a walk in the woods with a fine collection of rocks, shells, pine cones, and seed pods is easy. The trick isknowing what to do with them once you get them back to your room. The real fun comes from identifying, preserving, and displaying your treasures!Natural History Collector: Hunt, Discover, Learn!is full of hands-on, kid-friendly projects for the budding naturalist. The opening chapter introduces kids to different ways of creating their personal field guides for keeping track of what they see, when and where they see it, and what makes it interesting. They'll move on to techniques for cleaning and caringfor treasures, such as drying flowers, pressing leaves, and desalinizing rocks and shells. The book's drawings and photographs will help kids discover what to look for when they examine feathers, seeds, and minerals (and recognize the difference between sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic). Extra projects focus on display; making shadow boxes, creating collectors' cases from egg cartons and candy boxes, labeling, hanging, and mounting collections.

Discover your unique inner artist through 21 intuitive, process-based lessons in drawing with graphite pencil, colored pencil, and inkthen joyfully share your works of beauty with the world. In Drawing Is for Everyone, artist Kateri Ewingauthor of Look Closer, Draw Better and Watercolor Is for Everyoneguides you through a series of simple creative drawing projects using a soulful, meditative, and reflective process. Whether you're drawing for the first time or are an experienced artist, you'll discover and deepen your creative potential through these exercises, because everyone can make art. Each lesson includes two art pieces, one to keep, and then a smaller one, such as a postcard or mini painting, to share or send out into the world, to spread their color, creativity, and joy in new places. With Drawing Is for Everyone, you can learn how to build a daily drawing practice and how to set intentions and create, even if you have just 10 minutes a day. The projects draw inspiration from poetry, music, literature, and the natural world, and invite experimentation with a variety of sources. Youll pursue your personal passions through accessible projects as you build your drawing skills, confidence, and creativity.

Beekeeper's Lab includes 52 activities from around and about the hive including art projects, recipes, experiments, and garden activities.

A Year of Creativity is a book on designing creative craft and DIY experiences for groups of friends. One participant shares a project, the materials, and the instructions, and everyone gathers to make their own versions simultaneously, with each person using their favorite colors and stylings and, in turn, inspiring more creativity all around.