Show Me How: I can do Crafts: Creative Things for Young Children to Make, Shown Step by Step - Tapa dura

This book features creative things for young children to make, shown step by step. 16 entertaining projects to encourage crafty kids!. It covers ideas that include a cork rattlesnake, shell butterfly mobiles, a mop scarecrow, and a cardboard box doll's house. It introduces and explains all the craft terms, techniques, materials, tools and equipment needed. It features over 200 photographs, including all the different stages and beautiful finished pictures to inspire and delight. It is an ideal starter book for ages 3 to 7 years, for older readers to use with minimum supervision, and for younger children to enjoy with adult help. It includes the easy and exciting activities that are the perfect way for children to build their self-confidence - even as they are building something fun to make. Making things yourself is both enjoyable and really rewarding. It takes time and you have to concentrate to understand how things are put together, but all the hard work is worth it. Once you have painted a flowerpot or made your own papier-mache maracas, the finished product has some of your own special magic in it! You will feel so proud, and everyone will want to admire your work.Crafty things to create include a model canal boat made using recycled materials, a lively dinosaur sock puppet and a fantastic magnetic fishing game.

Stewart and Sally Walton have worked on television and in magazines and are the authors of over 30 books on crafts, design and interior decorating. Stewart was one of the original team on the BBC's Home Front in the 90's and Sally wrote books to accompany the series. Sally now runs a successful eco-business called carry-a-bag making distinctive shopping bags from recycled and organic fabrics and Stewart is an artist who also designs and makes contemporary furniture from recycled wood.