easy woodcarving for children
ISBN 9781782505150
Regular price $22.50 Sale price $20.50 Save 9%Fun Whittling Project for Adventurous Kids
by Frank Egholm; Translated by Anna Cardwell
Wood carving is the perfect outdoor hobby for adventurous children. Teach them how to make toys, games and even jewellery with more than fifty fun whittling and wood carving projects, each fully-illustrated with easy-to-follow instructions.
Looking for an outdoor hobby to engage your children and encourage them to be crafty and creative? Wood carving is not only easy to learn and fun to do, but almost everything you need to get started can be found for free -- right outside your door!
Together you can craft a tumbling tower game, a racing car toy, a dolphin necklace or even a handy coat hook! With more than fifty activities at levels for beginners and up, children can create something useful, beautiful or fun (often all three!) out of wood.
Learning wood carving not only helps to improve children's concentration, creativity and dexterity, it's also invaluable in teaching them how to handle knives safely.
Adventurous children will be thrilled to learn woodland skills, while nature-loving parents will enjoy rediscovering the lost art of whittling with their kids.
Contents
Introduction
Difficulty levels
Whittling guidelines
Getting started
Finding a whittling knife
Protective gear
Wood
Where to find fresh branches
Dry wood
Wood carving
techniques
Whittling away from the body
Whittling towards the body
Practical tips
Sharpening knives
Saws and garden shears
Splitting wood
Colouring wood
Sanding wood
Carving seat
Whittling and reading
Animal figures
Bird made from a single branch
Bird with a feathery tail
Bird made from the end of a branch
Lifelike bird
Pigs and dogs
Fence with string or rails
Dolphin
Seal
Snake
Games
Pig throwing
Game pieces
Tower of Hanoi
The four confounding squares
Toys
Racing car
Spinning tops
Spinning top with handle and pull string
Whittled top
Softcover, 128 pages. 180 colour illustrations. 195 x 178 mm.
Frank Egholm is a lecturer, author and former woodwork teacher who worked for many years at the Rudolf Steiner School in Vordingborg, Denmark. Frank also designs and develops his own wooden toys and games, and is married to the illustrator Lillian Egholm.
Anna Cardwell is a translator who lives in Edinburgh, UK.
Floris Books. 2018.
Blackbird's Nest postcard by M. v. Zeyl
MER 95304350
Regular price $3.10 Sale price $2.55 Save 18%Blackbird's Nest postcard by Marjan van Zeyl.
Postcards like these are of course nice to receive in the mail, but they are quite popular for displaying on a little cardholder in a chosen spot in the home to create a little corner that changes with the seasons and holidays... The lovely illustrations can be a gentle and reliable companion with our inner and outer worlds as we travel through our year. Also as part of a display, some people chose little treasures found outdoors during a walk, or small scenes they set up to represent certain celebrations or traditions of the season. Some fresh flowers, some found rocks or berries or leaves, pinecones, all sorts of simple items can come together to create a 'nature table'.
10.5 x 15 cm.
Printed in the Netherlands.
More information at www.marjanvanzeyl.nl
Look Up! Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard
ISBN 9780763693008
Regular price $11.99Author/ Illustrator: Annette LeBlanc Cate
This conversational, humorous introduction to bird-watching encourages kids to get outdoors with a sketchbook and really look around. Quirky full-color illustrations portray dozens of birds chatting about their distinctive characteristics, including color, shape, plumage, and beak and foot types, while tongue-in-cheek cartoons feature banter between birds, characters, and the reader (“Here I am, the noble spruce grouse. In a spruce grove. Eatin’ some spruce. Yep.”). Interactive and enjoyable tips bring an age-old hobby to new life for the next generation of bird-watchers.
Back matter includes a bibliography, an index, and bird-watching tips.
A 2014 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
You don’t have to own binoculars and know a bunch of fancy Latin names to watch birds! No matter where you live, they’re in your neighborhood — just look up.
Nest Notes: We really like this book for 8 years and up. The actual physical publication, with the paper, inks, and colours was all done so well, and it does justice to the beautiful illustrations and layout. This book combines the aesthetic with the deliciously, excitingly informative. It gets us feeling positively in the mood for bird-watching, not just as a one-time event, but as part of our general consciousness! A true gem of a work!
64 pages.
9 1/16" x 7 7/16"
Published by Candlewick Press.
A Year and a Day, Issue 1: Eggs, Birds and Nests
AYAAD Issue 1
Regular price $22.50In this printed issue you'll find three full length stories, how to draw a goose, how to identify a bird nest, how to cook with nettles, how to make dandelion salt dough... and much more!
Activities are laid out in order, and span a suggested timeline of 3 days, making this a fabulous resource for homeschooling.
Staplebound. Beautifully printed on sturdy, high quality, uncoated paper.
34 pages.
Printed in the UK.
Look at the Little Birds postcard
MER 95304358
Regular price $3.10 Sale price $2.55 Save 18%"Look at the Little Birds" Postcard by Marjan van Zeyl
Postcards like these are of course nice to receive in the mail, but they are quite popular for displaying on a little cardholder in a chosen spot in the home to create a little corner that changes with the seasons and holidays... The lovely illustrations can be a gentle and reliable companion with our inner and outer worlds as we travel through our year. Also as part of a display, some people chose little treasures found outdoors during a walk, or small scenes they set up to represent certain celebrations or traditions of the season. Some fresh flowers, some found rocks or berries or leaves, pinecones, all sorts of simple items can come together to create a 'nature table'.
Look at the Little Birds postcard in particular captures the essence of childhood quiet sweet moments. Nice to create a protective mood and to celebrate the wonder and play of childhood.
10.5 x 15 cm.
Printed in the Netherlands.
More information at www.marjanvanzeyl.nl