This title helps your child turn trash into treasure with craft and activity expert Jane Bull - now in paperback! "Make It!" from activity expert Jane Bull, gets your child re-using rubbish to create amazing things. Think about all the stuff we throw away every day, like plastic drink bottles and metal cans, magazines and even clothes; they can all be re-used. There's no need for fancy materials. Over 100 crafty step-by-step projects will have your child turning humble household rubbish into amazing treasures you'll want to keep. Watch them create jewellery from paper, flower pots from plastic bottles and shoulder bags from old jeans. It is packed with facts on earth's natural resources and tips on recycling too.
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By seeing the world through a child's eyes, award-winning author Jane Bull creates fresh, original, and energetic designs that inspire children to get crafty. Jane has been involved in an enormous range of adult and children activity books including bestsellers Make It! and Made By Me. Jane lives in London with her husband and three children.
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By Canadianladybug
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Format:Hardcover
I would call this book as the recycling craft projects book of all time. Seriously packed with tons of ideas that cover anything and everything that you could recycle, the book will keep you kids busy for some time.
You will find projects that will be made of paper, plastic, metal and even fabric. At the beginning of the book, the kids can also read about the importance of recycling and how they can proceed on starving their own garbage can.
A few projects caught my eyes - like the making a newspaper pot, the paper portraits, the rainbow frame made out of plastic toys of various colors, the metal models of robots and space ships. But the projects that caught my interest the most were the ones made out of fabric. The friends made out of old tuques, mittens and gloves are calling me as well as the pocket purse. But for the purpose of this review, I decided to tackle the challenge of making comfy cushions.
The instructions are simple and cover one page - that's including the pictures. So I religiously followed the instructions and made my first comfy cushions based on a long sleeve shirt that my daughter Jasmine used to wear. And then Jérémy requested one too! So I got one shirt that was too small for Jasmine (one that all the kids had last year) and move the bigger size down one child (unfortunately Alexandre doesn't have one anymore) and proceeded to complete his comfy cushion. Now Dominic wants one too but I need to find a shirt that would work for this kind of craft.
I'm impressed with my sewing skills lately. First I did revamped a pair of shorts for Jasmine and now these fun cushions. I think I am discovering a new passion to make things for my kids.
If your kids like to do crafts and would like to explore a new way of make something out of recycled things, Make It! is a book for him or her.
You will find projects that will be made of paper, plastic, metal and even fabric. At the beginning of the book, the kids can also read about the importance of recycling and how they can proceed on starving their own garbage can.
A few projects caught my eyes - like the making a newspaper pot, the paper portraits, the rainbow frame made out of plastic toys of various colors, the metal models of robots and space ships. But the projects that caught my interest the most were the ones made out of fabric. The friends made out of old tuques, mittens and gloves are calling me as well as the pocket purse. But for the purpose of this review, I decided to tackle the challenge of making comfy cushions.
The instructions are simple and cover one page - that's including the pictures. So I religiously followed the instructions and made my first comfy cushions based on a long sleeve shirt that my daughter Jasmine used to wear. And then Jérémy requested one too! So I got one shirt that was too small for Jasmine (one that all the kids had last year) and move the bigger size down one child (unfortunately Alexandre doesn't have one anymore) and proceeded to complete his comfy cushion. Now Dominic wants one too but I need to find a shirt that would work for this kind of craft.
I'm impressed with my sewing skills lately. First I did revamped a pair of shorts for Jasmine and now these fun cushions. I think I am discovering a new passion to make things for my kids.
If your kids like to do crafts and would like to explore a new way of make something out of recycled things, Make It! is a book for him or her.
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4.5 out of 5 stars
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Some good ideas, many rehashed, not too many projects
Aug 22 2008
By H. Sapiens
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book should probably be renamed Recycle it! That is truly the focus of this somewhat preachy book on recycling. Don't get me wrong - I am an avid recycler; however rather than encourage kids to cut up all the junk mail maybe encouraging Mom and Dad to subscribe to green dime and get rid of it would be better. So - it's preachy. I got it for projects.
It is divided into sections - Paper, Plastics, Metal, Textile/Fabric
While visibly appealing, there are actually very few projects per section. Most of the projects seem to be projects I remember from the magazine Family Fun. Another problem is that the examples of plastics are not realistic - e.g. purple plastic bottles (look like water bottles) - does the author want me to go to the craft store and PURCHASE these? What happened to recycling? I am more apt to have clear plastic bottles - so show me examples of this. Additionally, there are many examples of projects - make a sun catcher out of a bottle! - but no clear instructions that a 9 year old could follow (just a page full of pictures of several ideas).
So, I've seen better - much better. If you do decide to buy this book, consider it an "idea" book and don't expect a lot of tutorial beyond making paper bowls and homemade paste (which are actually pretty useful).
It is divided into sections - Paper, Plastics, Metal, Textile/Fabric
While visibly appealing, there are actually very few projects per section. Most of the projects seem to be projects I remember from the magazine Family Fun. Another problem is that the examples of plastics are not realistic - e.g. purple plastic bottles (look like water bottles) - does the author want me to go to the craft store and PURCHASE these? What happened to recycling? I am more apt to have clear plastic bottles - so show me examples of this. Additionally, there are many examples of projects - make a sun catcher out of a bottle! - but no clear instructions that a 9 year old could follow (just a page full of pictures of several ideas).
So, I've seen better - much better. If you do decide to buy this book, consider it an "idea" book and don't expect a lot of tutorial beyond making paper bowls and homemade paste (which are actually pretty useful).
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book to have for anyone!!
Aug 2 2008
By Doreen J. Crespo
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
This book is a gotta have for just about anyone that has kids or works with kids!!! The pictures are bright and colorful and the ideas are new and exciting!!! I am so glad that I picked this one up. I work at a Christian school preschool class and we have lots of neat ideas that we do but this book was filled with all new ones that we had never tried or had seen at conferences. These are easy projects that can be done at home just as they could be done at a school too. Love the book!!!!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Jan Bull is a great Author
May 16 2013
By SL Hassler
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Lots of ideas for the young and young at heart. Actually it can get your OWN creative juices going. Have fun and always think 'creative'.
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