Arts And Crafts For Kids - Key Stage 1 And 2 DVD

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Certificate:	Ex

Special Features:	None listed.

Region:	Region 0

Number of Discs:	1

Main Language:	English

Description

AUSTRALIA: Travel to the "Land Down Under" for the crafting ideas. Your journey explores historic Australian crafts and the common things and animals associated with the island continent. Projects include: Cave Painting - Early inhabitants of Australia left their mark in caves and on rock. Your designs will replicate these symbols with paint. Pony Bead Crocodile - You will have a great time making pony bead key chains - crocodiles and a few other animals too. Bommerany - covered with a particular style of Aborigine design, involving the repetition of small geometric shapes, this boomerang really works. Koalas - Make both a koala and e eucalyptus tree. The koala includes an interesting way of making fur from glue, paint and sawdust. Wooly Sheep - Wool is a very important part of the Australian economy. Make one wooly sheep or a whole flock.

AFRICA & ASIA: Egypt, India and Morocco are three exotic countries offering a wide variety of crafts. Projects include: Wind Chime - Create beautiful music with a painted, clay wind chime. Batik Shirt - This is the easy way to batik, using glue and fabric paint.
Magic Carpet - Who knows where you might travel on your magic carpet of canvas and crayons. Pyramid Pictures - It's 1, 2, ,3, no 4 pictures, all in one. A great way to display photos. Clay Pull-Toy - This traditional toy is mad from clay decorated with Middle Eastern designs.

EUROPE: We visit Italy and learn of the Renaissance period in this country, featuring beautiful glass crafts that are important part of Italian art. Projects include: Mosaic Tiles - Leftover floor tiles and markers create true Italian mosaics. Stained Class Sun Catcher - Foiling creates Renaissance-inspired stained glass that's actually painted on. Crayon "Resist" Pot-Cathedral Window - Simulate a cathedral window by cutting and overlaying tissue paper; Glow In The Dark - Here we make a butterfly, the symbol of rebirth.