Craft & Handwork Books

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A First Book of Knitting for Children — COMING SOON
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A Lifetime of Joy
A Lifetime of Joy: A Collection of Circle Games, Finger Games, Songs, Verses and Plays for Puppets and Marionettes
This is a fantastic resource for all teachers - especially those in early childhood classrooms and first (read more)
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A Museum of Early American Tools
This book is exactly what the title says it is: a museum of Early American tools. And, as with any great museum, simply to enter is to find oneself awash in awe and admiration and wonder. This is simply one (read more)
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A Museum of Early American Tools: Hardcover
This book is exactly what the title says it is: a museum of Early American tools. And, as with any great museum, simply to enter is to find oneself awash in awe and admiration and wonder. This is simply one (read more)
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A Reverence for Wood
If you want to infuse your student with an understanding of why natural materials are so special, just be sure there's a copy of this book available for browsing in your classroom or home. This refreshing, delightfully written, and magnificently (read more)
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Autumn – Nature Activities for Children
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Basic Sculptural Modeling
Hella Loewe has developed an approach to modeling that could be called "form drawing in three dimensions" - and, we think it is just exactly what our modern children need. It is also, from our own research and from hers, (read more)
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Making Woodland Crafts: Hardcover
Through a series of visually stunning hand-drawn illustrations, Making Woodland Crafts guides the reader on making things in the woods. An art work in its own right, this book provides the basic knowledge and skills to complete a range of (read more)
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Creative Felt
People have been making felt for thousands of years and Angelika Wolk-Gerche invites you to discover its fun and practicality. Within these pages, beautifully illustrated with clear photographs, she shows us one step at a time how to create toys, (read more)
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Creative Wool
Wool is perhaps my very favorite fiber, one that you allows you to create almost anything. This lively full-color illustrated craft book shows how to make a range of handicrafts from fleece and yarn, including toys, friendship bracelets and braids, (read more)
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Crocheting Soft Toys
Crochet your own unique, handmade toys for friends and family -- all made with love! This book includes step-by-step instructions, diagrams and photographs for making a range of toy animals for children to cuddle and play with. Choose from large (read more)
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Feltcraft
This book is so charming and the little people and animals so delightful that we couldn't resist having it as part of our bookshop. We can imagine homes where children and visitors find these little fellows tucked into all sorts (read more)
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Festivals with Children
After too long an absence, this book - beloved for its compact yet inspiring descriptions of the Christian festivals - is again available. Brigitte Barz describes the nature and character of each festival, its symbols and customs, and gives practical (read more)
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Fingerweaving Basics
Weaving is a wonderful handcraft for older students and adults. It gets the two hemispheres of the brain talking to each other, develops eye/hand/touch coordination, enhances cognitive awareness -- and it's fun and produces useful and beautiful (read more)
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Freddie’s Blanket: Hardcover
Join Freddie Platypus and his family as he learns that his own big bed might just be the best place to sleep after all! At the end of the story you will discover a series of five knitting patterns (read more)
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Freddie’s Blanket
Join Freddie Platypus and his family as he learns that his own big bed might just be the best place to sleep after all! At the end of the story you will discover a series of five knitting patterns (read more)
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Hand Bookbinding
Rudolf Steiner established Bookbinding as one of the required classes in the high school curriculum of the original Waldorf School. In his day, this was actually an essential skill for anyone wishing to build a personal library: books were sold (read more)
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Hanky Panky
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Learn-to-Knit Afghan Book
This book caught my eye because I'm someone who doesn't like to waste time or materials on the sort of projects that are often suggested as ways to learn a craft. It also intrigued me because I had concocted (read more)
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Knitted Animals: Hardcover
Here is an irresistible collection of animals to knit in soft, natural materials: ducklings, teddy bears, lambs, piglets, hedgehog, a handsome rooster, and many more. Most of the projects can be knitted quickly and cheaply with small odds and ends (read more)
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Learning about the World through Modeling: Sculptural Ideas for School and Home
What a wonderful book! The author and illustrator have managed to combine a delicious array of modeling projects with a thorough discussion of the cognitive, social and personal benefits of the act of transforming a plastic material into an object (read more)
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Making Needle-Felted Animals
This book is an essential guide for anyone interested in the popular craft of needle-felting. Whether you are completely new to needle-felting or an experienced felter, this book has something to offer, from precise instructions to creative inspiration. Written by (read more)
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Making the Children’s Year: Seasonal Waldorf Crafts with Children, 2nd Edition
Making the Children’s Year is a family resource for seasonal crafts with children. Drawing on the creative ethos of Steiner Waldorf education, this is a full-colour second edition of The Children’s Year, (read more)
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Kids Knitting: Projects For Kids Of All Ages
In fifteen easy projects, from bouncy bean bags to a rolled-edge sweater, author and knitting expert Melanie Falick teaches kids of all ages how to knit. Through step-by-step instructions and candy-colored illustrations, beginners learn the fundamentals: knitting tools, finger-knitting, and (read more)
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Socks from the Toe Up: Essential Techniques and Patterns from Wendy Knits
Discover a new approach to sock knitting with Wendy D. Johnson and Socks from the Toe Up. This approach, made famous by her popular blog WendyKnits.net, will turn even the (read more)
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Magic Wool
Magic Wool unveils the secrets of captivating children with feltboard pictures "painted" with colored unspun fleece. There is nothing more magical to a child than to see a story spring to life as a parent or teacher "draws" (read more)
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Magical Window Stars
Who would have thought that by simply folding colored tissue paper, you could transform a window into a source of a truly magical, captivating beauty? Frédérique Guéret provides step-by-step instructions for making twenty-five window stars. Each is (read more)
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Making Flower Children
What sweet wee folk you can make with this book! Charming little flower children for every season and mood -- wonderful for nature table or play. These are just so adorable I want to hug them all. Directions are clear (read more)
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Making More Flower Children
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Making Peg Dolls
Invite yourself and every child you know or teach into a playful world that delights at every turn! Making Peg Dolls joyously shows how to easily make simple, lovable toys for children that can also be used (read more)
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Making Waldorf Dolls
It is a beautiful thing, says Maricristin Sealey, "to craft a doll with your own hands, sew it together with love, then make a gift of it to your child with the words, 'I made this for you!'" This (read more)
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Making Peg Dolls & More: Hardcover
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Phoebe’s Sweater
Come enter the wold of Phoebe Mouse as she lives and grows through the changing seasons. Join her adventures in her woodland world as the year brings a special surprise for her family. At the end of the (read more)
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Puppet Theatre
This is just such a charming, happy book! Maija Baric' opens up the world of puppetry to young children and adults in ways that will make you smile and will lead you and your children on and on into the (read more)
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Rose Windows and How to Make Them
Remember the paper snowflakes we used to make? The ones where you fold the paper and cut delicate, interesting shapes out of the resulting triangle? And then, you unfold them as though you were opening a mysterious package, never quite (read more)
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Sewing Dolls
Getting out the sewing basket is never more fun than when it is to create a new doll for a child. Karin Neuschütz's Sewing Dolls can make such a project even more joyful. She shows (read more)
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Spring – Nature Activities for Children
It is thrilling to see the second of this vibrant 4-book series in print in English. It is every bit as beautiful and as inspiring as it's companion volume, Autumn, and I expect it will do a great deal to (read more)
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Summer — Nature Activities for Children: Hardcover
Ahhh! Those lazy, hazy days filled with wonder and adventure and the vibrancy of life. In this sunny book that completes the seasonal Nature Activities series, Irmgard Kutsch and Brigitte Walden take children on a stroll through the wonders of (read more)
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The Christmas Craft Book
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Celebrating Christmas Together: Nativity and Three Kings Plays with Stories and Songs
Create the wonder of Christmas with your children at school or at home―starting with a simple Advent Calendar and Crib Scene. The Nativity Play is spell binding―whether told as a story in verse, narrated as children act the (read more)
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