"Introduces kids to masters of modernism with 52 playful, simple to stimulating craft projects. Featuring inexpensive, often recycled and easily accessible materials with clear photography and easy-to-follow steps..."--P. [4] of cover.

Hands-on activities, games, and crafts introduce children to the diversity of Native American cultures and teach them about the people, experiences, and events that have helped shape America, past and present. Nine geographical areas cover a variety of communities such as the Mohawk in the Northeast, Ojibwa in the Midwest, Shoshone in the Great Basin, Apache in the Southwest, Yup'ik in Alaska, and Native Hawaiians. Featuring a look at the lives of...

Explores the lives of ancient Egyptians through more than twenty-five hands-on building projects and activities.

Provides step-by-step instructions for creating fifty paper crafts, including pop-up greeting cards, stacking boxes, folded journals, and three-dimensional creatures, plus "magic" paper tricks.

Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region. In 1966, in the Appalachian Mountains of Northeast Georgia, A teacher and his students founded a quarterly magazine that they named Foxfire, after a phosphorescent lichen. In 1972, several articles from the magazine were published in book form and the acclaimed Foxfire series was born. Some thirty years later, the books continue...