Recyclo-gami: 40 Crafts to Make your Friends GREEN with Envy!

by Laurie Goldrich Wolf

Overview

What can you make out of your old bits of paper, leftover pieces of yarn, or not-so-brand-new cartons and containers? Craft your own purse out of playing cards, whip up a scrapbook made of cereal boxes, or a dollhouse from an empty juice carton! Tweens and teens can start crafting using the easy to follow instructions and photographic directions the smart way. All crafts are made out of materials that many of us find just lying around the house or sitting on the curb waiting to be tossed in a landfill. Overpriced dér, fashion, and gifts are out, and recyclable crafts are in!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762442447
Publisher:	Running Press Book Publishers
Publication date:	03/08/2011
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	13 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Laurie Goldrich Wolf was the food and crafts editor at Child magazine for nineteen years and currently produces cooking and craft stories for parenting and lifestyle magazines and websites. She is the author of The Only Bake Sale Book You'll Ever Need and Lidville.

Editorial Reviews

Wolf's fun, resourceful projects offer straightforward ways to reuse common materials to make accessories, jewelry, household decorations, games, and gifts. Leftover tissue or wrapping paper can be used to create decoupage plates; old crayons are melted and baked into molds to make multicolored crayons; and unused CDs and DVDs are transformed into funky, freeform bowls when melted in the oven. While some projects are of dubious usefulness (a tote made from playing cards, for one), the ease of most of the activities should inspire readers to see the recycling bin as a potential treasure trove. Ages 8–up. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

Gr 4–7—While paper folding has little relationship to this book, the material itself is frequently used in the crafts. Recycled may also be a stretch, for while some projects do use recycled materials, like ice-cream containers, many require scavenging items that might not be so common in recycle bins such as wallets, ribbon, bobby pins, lampshades, thumbtacks, tissue paper, cloth napkins, glass plates, and pipe cleaners. Missing is any overview regarding materials, processes, or the concept of recycling; this is simply a craft book. Specifics about the types of glue and detailed steps to insure success are omitted. Like recipes for chefs, these projects require interpretation, previous experience, and/or plenty of patience. Forty different assemblages include bags and carryalls, jewelry, coasters, corkboards, scrapbooks, and toys. Black-and-white photos depict the finished products along with one or two images of the steps to produce them. Although production specifics are lacking, the variety of ideas is inspiring.—Janet S. Thompson, Chicago Public Library

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