purchase As you might suspect, a book with this title features many photos of barefoot kids happily stomping in the mud. Mud huts and mud pies conjure up pictures of primitive peoples and childish pleasures. But then you realize that the kids aren't in Africa, but in Washington DC, Chicago, Portland (Oregon), and Berlin. And they aren't all kids! Looking past the pictures of giddy, muddy fun, here is substantial and serious inspiration and practical lessons for artists, teachers, students, and designers, as well as builders interested in natural materials like adobe (and, more recently, . . .
Make a Simple Sundial: Measure the Earth, Discover the Cosmos
This book shows how to make an accurate sundial with just a bit of simple materials, geometry, and a map with information about your longitude and latitude. It also shows how a sundial is really a model of the relationship between the earth and the sun - and, by extension, between you and the cosmos. A few experiments help to see what's happening as if you were looking at the earth from outer space. Starting with a stick and its shadow on a sunny day, the books shows how to locate true north, how to feel the earth turning under your feet, and how to turn the stick into a small scale model . . .
The Best of Making Things: A Handbook of Creative Discovery
Purchase here Children everywhere will welcome this new edition of a classic activity book - as will their teachers and parents (especially those seeking to simplify). A "best of" compilation of two volumes, it is a unique, affordable, and child-sized handbook that doesn't talk down to anyone. In fact, it is mostly pictures drawn in a simple and elegant style clear enough for anyone to follow, whether or not they read (though some projects, like paper making or batik, ask for adult supervision). Thirty years later, author Ann Sayre Wiseman says "I still meet people who say 'Making Things was . . .