Paint Play (Now you do it)

by Ruth Thomson (Author), Peter Millard (Illustrator)

• Used

  Paperback
  1991

  $3.41

  Aiming to encourage young children to develop their imagination and artistic skills, this craft book shows some of the different ways in which paint can be used. Some of the projects draw on traditional skills from different countries and others are based on more original and unusual ideas. The projects include ways of using fingers and other objects such as card, fabric and feathers to create textures and effects, ways to print, spatter and stencil, making magic pictures and different ideas for painting objects. The author won the 1988 Times Educational Supplement Junior Information Book Award.

• Used

  Paperback
  1991

  $5.05

  Aiming to encourage young children to develop their imagination and artistic skills, this craft book suggests a wide range of things which can be made with just a piece of paper, a pencil and a pair of scissors. Some of the projects draw on traditional skills from different countries and others are based on more original and unusual ideas. The projects include papercuts, greetings cards with holes, folds and cut-out decorations, paper collage, Christmas decorations and gift tags, silhouettes and shadow puppets. The author won the 1988 Times Educational Supplement Junior Information Book Award.