Highlights Press Look What You Can Make with Craft Sticks: Creative Crafts from Everyday Objects

Author: HighlightsBrand: Highlights PressEdition: 1Binding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 48Release Date: 01-06-2013model number: ELP397997Part Number: ELP397997Details: From School Library Journal Grade 2-4-Craft Sticks uses Popsicle or craft sticks, tongue depressors, paper, paint, fabric, and household odds and ends to make toys and games, decorative items, doll furniture, frames, wreaths, and more. Newspapers uses papier-m ch techniques, decoupage, and cutting skills to make banks, clothed dolls, boxes, signs and cards, mobiles, etc. A switch-plate cover and a marble maze game are two of the more unusual ideas. Bottles, which requires potentially dangerous cutting procedures, only gives a safety warning in the introduction: "If you are having trouble cutting a container, ask for adult help." No warnings appear with individual projects, which combine plastic-container recyclables with paper, ribbon, fabric, buttons, and beads to make such items as bracelets, bookends, a desk aquarium,