Craft It Up Around the World: 35 fun craft projects inspired by traveling adventures

Bring the great wide world into your own home with these 35 travel-inspired craft projects!

Driven by a passion for travel, photography, and craft, Libby Abadee and Cath Armstrong have created Craft It Up Around the World to inspire children to look at the world around them. They have designed 35 unique and enduring projects that represent different countries, all complete with fun facts. Discover how with simple kitchen ingredients you can make salt dough coins to evoke the magic of the Trevi Fountain in Rome, or transform a drinks can into a Jamaican-style tin can drum. Give the Turkish whirling Dervish doll a spin, or make colorful coasters based on the designs of African flags. As you follow the easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step photographs, you’ll make stunning crafts that you’ll want to keep forever or give as beautiful gifts.

Libby Abadee has a degree in journalism and edited an architectural magazine in Australia. Libby, who has five children, is passionate about parenting with creativity. Cath Armstrong is a photographer and mother of three. Together, Libby and Cath run Craft It Up!, a business producing quality craft kits for children. They are the authors of Craft It Up Around the World, published by CICO Books. The authors are based in Sydney, Australia.