Making Marvelous Music Boxes

Thirty-eight delightful designs will make you want to create a music box for everyone you know. For the holidays, reindeers paw in "Up on the Housetop", and snow gently falls for "Silent Night", while Santa bears gifts for boys and girls to "Here Comes Santa Claus". Each one is shown in beautiful full color, followed by "recipe-style" instructions with a list of materials needed for each project and simple numbered steps for easy assembly.

Small mechanical or electronic musical movements with a large selection of tunes are now widely available for craft projects. Ganske describes the various kinds of movements and accessories available and provides 39 music box projects with themes based on songs. These projects can be constructed using purchased boxes, paint, glue, and decorative materials. Projects are categorized by level of ability and include elaborately decorated boxes, baskets, bowls, and even a musical gumball machine.
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