Creative Kids Complete Photo Guide to Braiding and Knotting
Published on 22. December 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-58923-937-1 (ISBN)
Description
Learn how to make bracelets, belts, leashes, and more using braiding and knotting techniques. It's creative fun that's knot to be missed!
This comprehensive beginner's guide teaches the techniques of kumihimo (braiding), plaiting, knotting, and macrame. Written for young minds, Creative Kids Complete Photo Guide to Braiding and Knotting gives readers the basics for working with different cords and fibers to create projects such as bracelets, necklaces, leashes, keychains, wall hangings, and more. Some of these fun projects incorporate beads, stones, and other findings.
Each section of Creative Kids Complete Photo Guide to Braiding and Knotting begins with an introduction to the materials required then gradually introduces skills and techniques until kids are braiding and knotting with confidence and ease. Visual learners will love the 250 how-to photos and illustrations, as well as clear, concise instructions--all easily understood by grade-school kids. Each project lists the skills that will be exercised in making it, and projects are rated for difficulty, so kids can progress to higher levels as they learn new skills and develop dexterity. You'll find that the book provides a foundation for a lifetime of braiding, knotting, and macrame enjoyment.
Keep little fingers braiding for hours and give kids' eyes a break from technology with the fun and creative craft of braiding and knotting!
This comprehensive beginner's guide teaches the techniques of kumihimo (braiding), plaiting, knotting, and macrame. Written for young minds, Creative Kids Complete Photo Guide to Braiding and Knotting gives readers the basics for working with different cords and fibers to create projects such as bracelets, necklaces, leashes, keychains, wall hangings, and more. Some of these fun projects incorporate beads, stones, and other findings.
Each section of Creative Kids Complete Photo Guide to Braiding and Knotting begins with an introduction to the materials required then gradually introduces skills and techniques until kids are braiding and knotting with confidence and ease. Visual learners will love the 250 how-to photos and illustrations, as well as clear, concise instructions--all easily understood by grade-school kids. Each project lists the skills that will be exercised in making it, and projects are rated for difficulty, so kids can progress to higher levels as they learn new skills and develop dexterity. You'll find that the book provides a foundation for a lifetime of braiding, knotting, and macrame enjoyment.
Keep little fingers braiding for hours and give kids' eyes a break from technology with the fun and creative craft of braiding and knotting!
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 7 to 13 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
300 color photos
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58923-937-1 (9781589239371)
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Person
SHERRI HAAB is a bestselling and award-winning author of crafts books for both adults and kids, with more than 30 titles published. She also has a reputation as an innovative product developer, with an image transfer medium, an electroforming device, and an environmentally safe line of etching products to her credit. As the author of several jewelry technique books for adults, she has led jewelry making workshops all over the country. Sherri's work has been widely published in several jewelry making and kids' magazines, and she's appeared on many crafts TV shows, including JewelryTV (JTV), Jewelry Making with Jackie Guerra (DIY), and Beads, Baubles & Jewels (PBS).