Around the World Art & Activities: Visiting the 7 Continents Through Craft Fun (Williamson Little Hands Series) [Paperback]

Judy Press (Author), Betsy Day (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 3 and up | Series: Williamson Little Hands Series

This book is suitable for ages 4 to 8 years. Grab your homemade cereal-box suitcase, and plant a stamp on your newly made passport, for we're about to leave on a whirlwind tour of the seven continents. And what fun it is sure to be. Kids will be kids - rejoicing in their newfound friendship and familiarity with peoples around the world, delighted by both the similarities and differences in their cultures and customs. Make a Masai necklace, craft a Greek vase, create your own Guatemalan-styled 'worry' doll, and break some Maori bread from New Zealand! Broaden kids' view of their world and see the sights. Make you own standing Eiffel Tower, construct a salt-box windmill from Holland, build a wonderful Egyptian pyramid, and craft a clever London-styled 'Big Ben' clock.Make the Nile overflow, construct an erupting volcano, grow a pineapple plant, and create an Australian koala bear and a tissue-paper penguin (that really stands up!) from Antarctica. Explore the seven continents of the world and their distinctive lands, waterways, animals, plants, and natural treasures on a getting-to-know-you tour - with kids in the cockpit. Whew! Who's the tour guide that can keep up with these 3 to 7 year olds? None other than award winning Williamson author Judy Press, who has an inimitable talent for keeping kids learning and laughing - and loving it.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 2-Both of these books will appeal to children who are looking for ideas for something to do, baby-sitters, youth-group leaders, and others. Paper Plate Crafts gives suggestions for creating sea animals, insects, frogs, turkeys, lions, tigers, and other animals. Instructions are also given for making masks, hats, and seasonal crafts. The instructions are very simple. A list of supplies, a fun fact or two, and suggestions for related activities and for further reading are included. The second title is a Girl Scout Leader's dream of heaven when the international-friendship projects surface. Coded by degree of difficulty, the activities include creating a passport, making and packing suitcases from cardboard, and consulting a map of the world. Collecting foreign stamps is also suggested. North American totem poles, Hawaiian leis, Aboriginal bark painting, Japanese dolls in kimonos, Korean drums, egg-carton camels, Masai beaded necklaces, nesting Russian dolls, and South American gaucho belts are among the projects. While the ideas will not be new to veteran crafters, they are basic and solid for the intended audience.
Jennifer J. Gallant, Cleveland Public Library, OH
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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..".a Girl Scout Leader's dream of heaven...."

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Williamson Pub (October 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1885593457
• ISBN-13: 978-1885593450
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 10.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent addition to your curriculum!, June 12, 2008

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Miriam Martinez Medina (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Around the World Art & Activities: Visiting the 7 Continents Through Craft Fun (Williamson Little Hands Series) (Paperback)

This is a really wonderful book. It helps you plan a virtual field trip with your kids to the seven continents. In the beginning, they make their own "passport" and even a suitcase (from cereal box) to start their trip. The first stop is North America, where they will learn and craft about Native people from Canada and USA (making a Totem Pole), Mexico (making Papel picado), USA (making a statue of Liberty, a replica of Spirit of St. Louis plane), and other projects. Then, the next step is The Pacific Islands and Australia where kids will learn and craft about animals and art in the region. In Asia, kids will make a Japanese doll, a Chinese paper fan and an Indian elephant just to mention some things. In Africa, projects include a desert sand dune, a striped zebra and the Great Pyramid among others. In Europe, they will learn and craft about Eiffel Tower, Russian matryoshkas, castles, windmills, etc. In Central and South America, kids will learn and craft about music instruments, animals and folk crafts. In Antarctica, kids will learn about icebergs, penguins, whales.

This book is not only fun for kids, but it offers many opportunities to learn. For every project, it includes a map and location of the topic studied, and it contains other useful information to share, such as scientific facts about what the kids are crafting (like in the case of animals), some easy science experiments related, suggestions of books to read around that topic, and curious facts that will amaze everyone.

This book works great for Social Studies in the lower elementary grades, but it can also be used to teach science or to take ideas for reading response projects.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great for our homeschool art day, December 28, 2010

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This review is from: Around the World Art & Activities: Visiting the 7 Continents Through Craft Fun (Williamson Little Hands Series) (Paperback)

our 6 year old enjoys the crafts and learning about the continents. the projects definitely need supervision, but we love doing them. after purchasing this, we checked out the science book from the library.