This complete, step-by-step illustrated guide offers teachers 30 easy-to-do art projects using readily available materials. The project, from around the world, comes complete with cultural background information and extension activities.
Information about the history of paper and its uses accompanies instructions for making different types of papers and objects such as flowers, trays, lanterns, and more from paper.
Gather round, craft lovers! Assemble your clay, paint, crayons, scissors, and glue. This book will teach you how to make crafts that reflect the ideas and beliefs of people from other lands. Hop on your magic carpet and begin your journey!
Introduces a variety of masks people have worn throughout history and provides instructions for related crafts, including a Mexican Day of the Dead skull, Pacific Islander bird mask, and Chinese paper dragon.
Much like the United States, Canada is a nation that’s home to many different kinds of peoples and cultures. Canada is known as a wintery country, and Quebec has one of the largest winter festivals in the world! But there’s much more to Canada than just winter fun. This volume takes readers on an exciting tour of Canada’s colorful history. The fact-filled text explores customs and crafts that show readers firsthand what it’s like to be Canadian. Vibrant photographs of Canadian people, places, food, and icons are paired with accessible, step-by-step instructions for making a host of Canada’s cultural crafts, including a Mountie hat, a Canadian flag, and even traditional Inuit crafts!
Offers the history of puppets as a form of entertainment from around the world, providing instructions for making puppets from Japan, India, and Burma.
Popular eCommerce platforms like Etsy have attributed to a sharp increase in creative craft entrepreneurs, and craft entrepreneurship has strong links to the cultural and lifestyle field. This timely book looks at craft entrepreneurship and defines what qualifies as craft entrepreneurs and their products in a global context. The edited book begins with an overview of the craft sector and each chapter provides a holistic picture of what craft entrepreneurship entails. Different kinds of creative crafts are examined, providing a discussion of what entrepreneurship in creative crafts involves, how they differ from other types of products, and how craft makers may engage in entrepreneurial behaviour and marketing. The book helps readers understand the current state of development of the craft sector, its various challenges, and what the future holds for these businesses. Craft entrepreneurship is a new, emerging area of entrepreneurship study, and this book will interest scholars and those who are interested in craft making and wish to develop it into a small business.