FUN WITH FABRICS (Creative Crafts) - Hardcover

Bawden, Juliet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067983494X ISBN 13: 9780679834946

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers, 1993

Synopsis

Provides instructions on how to make things with fabric, including pom-poms, tie-dye t-shirts, and rag dolls

About this title

From School Library Journal

Grade 4 Up-Filled with attractive, often elaborate arts-and-craft projects, these slim volumes will best be used by adults who work with children. Some of the paper projects require the use of an X-Acto knife, while fabric projects may involve sewing or the use of an iron. Each activity is given a double-page spread that includes a photograph of the finished product, a list of materials, "handy hints," and basic step-by-step illustrated directions along the bottom of the spread. Many of the instructions assume greater skill than most children possess, and fail to provide support, such as patterns or templates. Fun with Paper is the better of the two, offering instructions for paper jewelry, pop-ups, flowers, animals, plants, fruits, hats, and clocks, all more intricate than those seen in most craft books. Fun with Fabric is filled with projects that use fabric paints, dyes, studs, and applique. Many are labor intensive and require a fair amount of skill, such as making an angel's hair by "sewing on tiny knots of embroidery thread." Most children simply won't know how to find the bias of a piece of fabric, or how to stretch a sock and keep it stretched while they sew. Still, the ideas in both titles are good, and have been so well executed in the illustrations that teachers will be inspired to add their own supplemental directions to make the projects work.
Denise L. Moll, Lone Pine Elementary School, West Bloomfield, MI
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 067983494X
• ISBN 13: 9780679834946
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 47