Presents instructions for easy-to-make craft projects with seasonal themes.

Presents twenty-nine easy-to-make craft projects with springtime themes, including cotton swab pussy willows, a robin redbreast door hanging, and an Easter bunny egg holder.

A springtime bouquet of paper flowers. Salt-dough picture frame gifts. A beautiful wreath of dried autumn leaves. These are just a few of the wonderful crafts you can create for holidays, celebrations, and gifts throughout the year! Crafts For All Seasons combines creativity with crafts that are fun and easy to do. And each project features materials that are both inexpensive and easy to find. Simple and satisfying, these books are perfect for kids on their own, or younger children with help from their parents or teachers.

A veteran graphic designer introduces a variety of fun, innovative, and beautiful paper projects involving everything from invitations, announcements, and cards to wraps, containers, and party favors, utilizing only simple tools and providing trouble-free instructions, along with full-size patterns. Original.

Celebrating the seasons provides a wonderful opportunity to embrace creativity together as a family. It’s also a fun way to decorate for, prepare for, and learn about the holidays we celebrate. In The Artful Year, you’ll find a year’s worth of art activities, crafts, recipes, and more to help make each season special. These artful explorations are more than just craft projects—they are ways for your family to create memories and mementos and develop creatively, all while exploring nature, new ideas, and traditions. The book includes: • Arts and crafts, using the materials, colors, and themes of the season • Ideas and decorations for celebrating the holidays together • Favorite seasonal recipes that are fun for children to help make (and eat!) • Suggested reading lists of children’s picture books about the seasons and holidays The 175+ activities in this book are perfect for children ages one to eight, and for creating traditions that appeal to all ages.

The Big Book of Holiday Paper Crafts, -Life's fun days are the focus of more than 450 cards, gift bags, boxes, albums, frames, party accents, and more from Paper Crafts magazine.

Take advantage of nature’s bounty and craft in time with the seasons! Whether potting up dandelion honey, cooking and crafting with rose petals or preserving autumn leaves and acorns, there are so many wonderful gifts, ornaments and treats that can be made from either a short walk in the woods or a rummage in your cupboard. With an emphasis on foraging and upcycling, Becci explores the ways we can create beautiful projects using materials readily available in the garden and home. Upcycled projects include gorgeous home textiles woven from bed linen, mini lampshade fairy lights for a summer’s evening and even a fabulous picnic table from an old suitcase. Capture the breeze of autumn with wind chimes made from old necklaces and cutlery and learn how to felt old sweaters, turning them into cosy wreaths, brooches and purses for winter. There is also a section on working with willow, with projects encompassing everything from woven bird-feeders (with home-made fat balls!) to festive ornaments.

Making your own clothes, housewares, and other craft projects can seem so intimidating. What if you're clumsy with scissors and can barely sew a button? How can you create your own handmade gifts-for yourself and for others-without ripping your ribbon and ruining your fabric? With helpful tips for making the most of your crafting experience, Crafts for Every Season is the perfect book for the novice crafter.* With simple, easy-to-follow instructions for more than 75 beautiful garments, bags, pillows, and other fun items organized into seasonal sections, any budding artist can fashion handmade treasures.* From an elegant clutch and bold beach bag for summer to a poncho and patchwork scarf for winter, from bright oven mitts and fridge magnets for autumn to wild window boxes for spring, the projects in Crafts for Every Season take every reader through the year in the most creative way possible.* Crafts for Every Season offers projects that will intrigue experience crafters but are still simple enough for beginners. The patterns used in the book are included in the back foreasy reference.

“The book offers plenty of inspiration . . . There are a variety of projects for each season, including clothing, pillows, quilts and decorations.” —Oregon Live From autumn’s bursts of orange and red to spring’s lush greens, summer’s long-lasting golden light and winter’s cool whites and grays, the changing seasons provide endless artistic inspiration. In Sewing for All Seasons, author Susan Beal offers twenty-four beautiful projects imbued with the spirit of each season. Home sewists will enjoy stitching a cozy patchwork throw for autumn, a bright gardening apron to welcome spring, a colorful picnic quilt for summer, and soft woolen slippers for those chilly winter nights. With how-to illustrations, helpful templates and patterns, tons of color, and eye-catching photography, this book will leap off shelves and inspire crafters all year long. “Pretty close to perfect when it comes to hitting a balance of what I look for in a crafty book: lots of inspiration, modernity, realistic skill requirements and desirability of finished projects.” —Apartment Therapy “Appealing versions of classic, relatively simple sewing ideas . . . Practical, livable designs.” —Publishers Weekly

Presents sixty project ideas for crafts for each season of the year.