Arts And Crafts From A To Z

From accordion crafts and Advent wreaths to windsocks and yarn art, these activities can reinforce any faith lesson for any age group. There are simple crafts anyone can do in minutes, along with more advanced projects suitable for budding Rembrandts and Picassos. You'll find new twists on old crafting standbys, plus unique new ways to express faith. This go-to resource is perfect for teachers, catechists, and anyone who wants to supplement faith formation with art projects that students can enjoy and remember for years.

Prepare students for early reading success by appealing to their love of craft projects! You'll get more than 75 alphabet crafts, timesaving patterns, and reproducible brag tags.

From America's largest specialty retailer of arts and crafts merchandise comes an extraordinarily big, beautiful, and encyclopedic collection of techniques and 175 projects--from beading and woodworking to glass and fabric crafts.

Practice the alphabet while having fun with paper crafts! 3D Paper Crafts for Kids is an exciting and easy project guide that carefully illustrates how to create 26 charming projects from paper and other household items. Organized in alphabetical order, have fun creating giraffes, kites, owls, queens, trees, zebras, and so much more!

CREATIVE KIDS-FUN ART ACTIVITIES FROM A TO Z is the ultimate art resource for parents & teachers. Over 150 open-ended activities encourage children to expand their imaginations. CREATIVE KIDS has age & developmental guidelines so that children two through twelve can experience success & have fun! This recipe & idea book explores a wide variety of children's art projects. Discover how to mix a "silly putty" equivalent, concoct giant bubble solutions, enjoy edible play doughs, create sidewalk chalk, discover scratch & sniff paint, & learn the secret of "clean fingerpainting". The holiday section lists 19 gifts children can create including soap balls, bath salts, ornaments, wrapping paper, & placemats. Each project has a materials list & step-by-step instructions detailing preparation & procedure. Many of the required materials can be found on kitchen shelves; the remainder are easily obtained at school supply stores. CREATIVE KIDS explains the difference between "arts" & "crafts", how to provide appropriate activities for children based on developmental stages & how to enhance the creative process. CREATIVE KIDS shares hints for success with less mess. This complete art resource contains 14 dough recipes, 7 fingerpaint recipes, 40 paint activities, numerous gluing suggestions, tissue paper projects & more. To order, contact: Creative Kids, P.O. Box 175923, Covington, KY 41017. Phone: (606) 341-8339.

Make something new every day of the year! Craft-a-Day offers daily inspiration along with weekly themes to kick-start your creativity. Make magnets, cupcake toppers, garlands, cards, wall art, finger puppets, and more! With 52 different themes, from rainbows and snowmen to ladybugs and groundhogs, you’ll find fun and cuteness on every page. Author Sarah Goldschadt provides whimsical projects for easy crafts that require no advanced skills or crazy tools. Complete with handy patterns and how-to photos, Craft-a-Day challenges you to make something special, every day of the year.

Architecture, which can be understood in its most basic sense as a form of enclosure created with an aesthetic intent, first made its appearance in the Prehistoric Age. From its earliest developments, architecture changed over time and in different cultures in response to changing cultural needs, aesthetic interests, materials, and techniques. The A to Z of Architecture provides information on architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Tadao Ando, Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, and Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov, as well as on famous structures like the Acropolis, the Colosseum, the Forbidden City, Machu Pichu, Notre Dame, the Pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge, and the World Trade Center. The dictionary examines the development of architecture over the centuries through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the major architects, well-known buildings, time periods, styles, building types, and materials in world architecture.

Aesthetics is not a "factual" discipline; there are no aesthetic facts. The word itself is derived from the Greek word for "feeling" and the discipline arises because of the need to find a place for the passions within epistemology--the branch of philosophy that investigates our beliefs. Aesthetics is more than just the study of beauty; it is a study of that which appeals to our senses, most often in connection with the classification, analysis, appreciation, and understanding of art. The A to Z of Aesthetics covers its history from Classical Greece to the present, including entries on non-western aesthetics. The book contains a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the main concepts, terminology, important persons (philosophers, critics, and artists), and the rules and criteria we apply in making judgments on art. By providing concise information on aesthetics, this dictionary is not only accessible to students, but it provides details and facts to specialists in the field.