Craft & Handwork Books
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A First Book of Knitting for Children
USD $24.95 Add to cartThis charming book is nothing less than the Waldorf approach to knitting captured between two covers. Here is everything - rhymes for each stitch, excellent step-by-step photographs, and the most delightful collection of projects we have seen gathered in one (read more)
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A Lifetime of Joy
USD $19.00 Add to cartA Lifetime of Joy: A Collection of Circle Games, Finger Games, Songs, Verses and Plays for Puppets and Marionettes
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A Museum of Early American Tools
USD $14.95 Add to cartThis 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
USD $22.95 Read moreThis 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
USD $12.95 Add to cartIf 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
USD $18.00 Add to cartHella 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
USD $35.00 Add to cartThrough 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
USD $25.00 Add to cartPeople 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
USD $19.95 Add to cartWool 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
USD $16.95 Add to cartCrochet 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
USD $25.00 Add to cartThis 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
USD $23.95 Add to cartAfter 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
USD $25.00 Add to cartWeaving 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
USD $19.95 Add to cartJoin 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
USD $9.95 Add to cartJoin 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
USD $14.95 Add to cartRudolf 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
USD $20.00 Add to cartThis 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
USD $29.95 Add to cartHere 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
USD $24.00 Add to cartWhat 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
USD $35.00 Add to cartThis 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
USD $26.00 Add to cartMaking 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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Finger Knitting for Kids: Super Cute & Easy Things to Make
USD $10.99 Add to cartNow kids can create their very own knitted accessories! Finger Knitting for Kids shows young crafters (and their parents) how to make cute and easy knitted pieces using only their fingers and a bit of yarn. Clear and (read more)
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Kids Knitting: Projects For Kids Of All Ages
USD $18.95 Add to cartIn 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
USD $22.99 Add to cartDiscover 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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Making Flower Children
USD $20.00 Add to cartWhat 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
USD $19.95 Add to cartInvite 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
USD $24.95 Add to cartIt 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
USD $18.95 Read moreCome 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
USD $30.00 Read moreThis 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
USD $15.95 Add to cartRemember 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
USD $25.00 Add to cartGetting 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
USD $19.95 Add to cartIt 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
USD $22.95 Add to cartAhhh! 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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Celebrating Christmas Together: Nativity and Three Kings Plays with Stories and Songs
USD $14.75 Add to cartCreate 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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The Birthday Book: Festivals for Everyone (Celebrations and the Seasons)
USD $23.50 Add to cartThe Birthday Bookÿis packed with recipes, stories, songs, games, and ideas for cards, decorations and presents. There are suggestions for 'oldies', for teenagers, 18th and 21st parties as well as children's parties. You will also find unusual celebrations for (read more)
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The Gnome Craft Book
USD $15.95 Add to cartGnomes, gnomes, gnomes - of all sizes, shapes, colors, and styles! All yours for the making when you follow the simple instructions in The Gnome Craft Book. You can never have too many gnomes!! This book offers fun (read more)