An exciting hands-on feast of multicultural art and craft experiences. With this book, children learn by doing--reaching across continents with paper, paste, and paints, while developing basic sensibilities about the wondrous cultures of others. Over 400 outstanding how-to illustrations.
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"Guaranteed to provide hours of creative pleasure and cultural insight for the whole family!" -- American Bookseller
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This is a wonderful book with a range of easy to more complicated crafts for children from 4-8. We have done a number of the projects in here and not only do my children enjoy them, but they get some exposure to cultures outside of their own. There are suggestions for changing the art projects to incorporate more creative impulses as well. It's the one craft book I keep returning to because the ideas are so interesting.
29 of 30 people found the following review helpful
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This is another excellent art book in the "A Williamson Kids Can! Book" series. I have several in the series, all of which have provided me many ideas for my students' art projects. I have used this particular book least however, because the projects are more complicated than the other books, and require more adult intervention, especially with younger children. It's advertised as for ages 4-8, but for children to work more independently, I recommend most projects as suitable for ages 7-13.
Materials include paper, aluminum foil, yarn, salt dough, yarn, popsicle sticks, mud, paper plates, papier mache. There are recipes included for the papier mache and salt dough. The projects represent the following cultures: Native American, Latin American, African, Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese. None are very authentic, but are good simulations of arts from these cultures, and can enhance cultural studies, or be done just for fun. One project I have returned to several times because of it's ease to do, and because of its attractive artistic results is the Guatemalan Wild Cat.
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Excellent art book. Got used copy in near perfect condition. Many MANY terrific art ideas. Easy to follow directions. Super organization by culture and art materials. Great lists of materials needed. Overall keeper.
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Wonderful Lesson Plans
Just this week the other art teachers in my community were saying they wanted to implement some multi-cultural lesson plans and so now I will revisit the ideas in this book to... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Katherine Forrest
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the kid's multicultural art book
greatly impressed with the lively and inviting cover even before discovering the interior of the book itself. Read more
Published 4 months ago by njf
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A Craft Classic
I first bought this book about 12 years ago to use for Girl Scout activities. Since then, my now-18 year old daughter has used this books as a resource for planning Girl Scout... Read more
Published on July 11, 2009 by Mary G. Corson
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Great!
As an art teacher, this is an excellent tool! I've used several ideas in this book in my classroom.
Published on June 23, 2009 by C. Adams
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Good simulated art of other cultures
This is another excellent art book in the "A Williamson Kids Can! Book" series. I have several in the series, all of which have provided me many ideas for my students' art... Read more
Published on July 28, 2002 by S. Brand
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- Kids Can by Susan Milord in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Benjamin Franklin by Rh Value Publishing in Back Matter
- Living Maya by Walter F., Jr. Morris in Back Matter
- Getting Started by Freddie North in Back Matter
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- The Complete Home Learning Source Book: The Essential Resource Guide for Homeschoolers, Parents, and Educators Covering Every Subject from Arithmetic to Zoology by Rebecca Rupp on page 424, and page 735
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- Home School: Taking the First Step by Borg Hendrickson on page 237
- Books to Build On: A Grade-by-Grade Resource Guide for Parents and Teachers (Core Knowledge Series) by E. D. Hirsch Jr. on page 199
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