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    Friendship Bracelets and Beading Fun
    Make Your Own Cards
    Brilliant Badges to Make Yourself
    Show Me How Games I Can Play: Loads of Fun Things for Kids to Do, Shown Step by Step
    Things to Do on a Rainy Day Project Book
    50 Traditional Toys to Make
    • 2016

      Featuring a diverse collection of 16 engaging games, this book offers a variety of activities including ball games, skipping, jumping, and dancing, as well as unique giant 'board' games. Each game is designed to promote fun and physical activity, making it perfect for gatherings or outdoor play. The activities encourage social interaction and creativity, providing endless entertainment for players of all ages.

      Show Me How Games I Can Play: Loads of Fun Things for Kids to Do, Shown Step by Step
    • 2016

      Show Me How: I Can Play Paint

      • 47 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      A lively learn-as-you-try project book for 3-7 year olds, with sponges, stencils, block prints, marbling and fingers!

      Show Me How: I Can Play Paint
    • 2015

      50 Traditional Toys to Make

      • 96 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      A bright variety of classic and simple toys and games to make for babies, toddlers and children, all shown step by step.

      50 Traditional Toys to Make
    • 2014

      Brilliant Badges to Make Yourself

      25 Amazing Step-By-Step Badge-Making Projects!

      • 64 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      Creative crafting techniques are showcased through a variety of badge-making projects, including a dotty dinosaur, a papier-mâché cat, a funky bow tie, a lollipop, and a birthday badge. The guide features 150 step-by-step photographs, making it easy for readers to follow along and create their own unique designs.

      Brilliant Badges to Make Yourself
    • 2014

      Dressing Up!

      • 96 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      Easy-to-make, effective costumes and fantastic disguises using everyday materials and face paints - animals galore, fun fantasy figures and plenty of spooky Halloween creatures as well, with 400 step-by-step photographs to show you what to do.

      Dressing Up!
    • 2014

      The beauty of applique celebrated in original and practical projects, using a range of techniques from cut-work and shadow-work to broderie perse and reverse applique.

      New Crafts: Applique
    • 2013

      Friendship Bracelets and Beading Fun

      • 64 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      Friendship bracelets are a symbol of companionship, which is why they make such great gifts for your friends and family. This book shows you how to decorate your creations with dangling beads and how to weave beads into bracelets and necklaces. You can even decorate your hairband, bags and shoes. It is suitable for 7- to 11-year-olds.

      Friendship Bracelets and Beading Fun
    • 2013

      It's raining again, and you've read all your books and played with all your toys, so what can you do until the sun comes out again? Instead of sitting in front of a computer or TV screen, why not make some of the exciting ideas shown in this book?

      Things to Do on a Rainy Day Project Book
    • 2011

      Make Your Own Cards

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      From simple cut-outs to 3-D pop-ups, designing and making your own stunningly original cards has never been easier, or more enjoyable! Choose from 35 fabulous, fun and innovative projects, all covering a huge range of occasions, such as Christmas, birthdays, weddings and Valentine's Day. Learn quick and easy techniques from embossing and collage to copying on acetate, or add sparkle with diamante and jewellery wire.

      Make Your Own Cards
    • 2002

      Funk It Up

      Decorate Your Accessories and Customize Your Clothes with Paint, Dye, Bleach and Transfers

      • 80 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      Funk It Up is packed with over 50 brilliant, easy and stylish ideas for personalizing your clothes - everything from stencilling, screen-printing or painting designs free-hand onto a simple top to decorating a pair of jeans with studs or transforming jumpers, T-shirts and jeans with dye or bleach. There is also a chapter on how to embellish your handbags, belts, hats and hair accessories. Whether you want to give a new lease of life to a tired-looking pair of jeans, update a classic jumper or jazz up a boring pencil skirt Funk It Up will show you how. Each project is clearly explained with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and specially commissioned photographs of the end result. It doesn't matter if you weren't top of the class in art, as there is an invaluable glossary of equipment and techniques which provides you with all the professional know-how you need to achieve expert results. This is a must for all fashion junkies!

      Funk It Up