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Earth-Friendly Crafts with Nuts and Veggies in 5 Easy Steps
Readers will cook up creatures and games from nuts, beans, and leaves. Ordinary household items become fun, unique crafts in just five easy steps. Readers will use their imagination and at the same time, help keep the earth a little cleaner. They'll make a caterpillar with walnuts, a little monster from a pinecone, a tic-tac-toe game from a dry leaf and pumpkin seeds, and much more.
* Reviews *
Each of these books contains 14 projects, all of which can be made from either common household items or those that are inexpensive and easily obtainable. The crafts are sufficiently varied, so boys and girls should find them appealing. Color photos illustrate the steps. One objection would be that on the spread about making a mandala in Nuts, there is no indication that it has any other significance than just being a design. Papier-Mache, oddly, does not have a recipe for the titular material. There is no explanation of why earth-friendly crafts are important. The simplicity of many of the projects, particularly those in Clay, make them suitable for burgeoning crafters., School Library Journal Fall 2013
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