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All Year Round Brimming with seasonal activities, crafts, poems and recipes, this book is an inspirational guide to celebrating festivals throughout the year.£12.99
The Children's Year Crafts and clothes for children and parents to make. Step by step, well illustrated book with clear instructions shows you how to get started. Over 100 treasures to make in seasonal groupings.£12.99
Crafts Through The Year Simply made decorations are an absorbing way for children to become involved in the celebration of the festivals of the year. This book is a totally revised compilation of the Christmas, Easter and Harvest Craft Books, offering over 150 different seasonal craft ideas. Excellent value. £12.99(hardback)
Making Waldorf Dolls Children treasure handmade dolls. Making a simple doll for a child is a gift for life, that encourages the magic of creative play. Ten different doll designs including soft, baggy, and limbed dolls; different ways of making doll's hair; twelve basic clothes patterns and ethnic variations.£14.99
Feltcraft Making dolls, gifts and toys. Felt Craft has instructions for a range of lively and creative ideas, such as small dolls, finger and glove puppets, animals and small gifts.£8.99
Creative Felt A step by step guide to making felt including illustrations of the processes involved. The second part of the book is a wealth of ideas of things to make with felt from toys and dolls to gifts and accessories.£8.99
The Nature Corner Seasonal nature tables are an invaluable way of making young children aware of the changing cycle of the year. An excellent book full of ideas. Using simple materials and basic handwork skills a series of effective tableaux can be made at home or in school for depicting the seasons and major festivals.£9.99
Making Dolls Many colour photographs and simple diagrams describes how to make seventeen different kinds of doll.£7.99
Painting With Children Painting with young children based on the Steiner Waldorf approach, using ready mixed water-colour paints and wet paper. Includes colour stories and poems.£6.99
Magic Wool - Creative Activities with Natural Sheep's Wool This book offers a wide range of creative possibilities for both children and adults. The colours and texture of natural wool appeal to the imagination in a vivid and inspirational manner. Create beautiful pictures, figures and animals using a variety of techniques.£7.99
More Magic Wool Making figures and pictures with natural sheep's wool, using felting techniques and more! Lots of creative ideas! This book is independent of Magic Wool and has a different author£7.99
Making Flower Children Detailed step by step instructions and illustrations for making a range of creative flower children.Many recognisable from Elsa Beskow's books and from Sybille von Olfers' 'The Story of the Root Children '.Activities are organised seasonally. 35 colour photos, 96 pages£8.99
Button, Button Buttons are easy to find,fun to collect, and can provide the family with lots of games to play. A selection of 101 games from the very simple to the much more challenging, from simple guessing games to games of imagination, wit and creativity.£7.99
Toymaking with Children new enlarged edition. This handbook is ideal for parents of young children and includes ideas for making wooden boats, log trains, doll’s furniture, rag dolls, puppets and soft animals. Lots of fun for those that enjoy making their own things£9.99
The Gnome Craft Book A wonderful book for all gnome loving children and adults. A great variety of techniques are used to create gnomes from felt, wood, wool and other natural materials.£7.99
Rose Windows and How To Make Them Using simple materials, you can make beautiful and decorative transparencies to hang in your own window at home or in school.£7.99
Spring Nature Activities This book is packed full of fun nature activities that will help children engage with the season and learn practical new skills. Activities for spring include building bird nesting boxes, sprouting seeds, landscaping and planting a garden, using plant-based dyes and paints, and more.£12.99
Summer Nature Activities for Children Packed full of fun nature activities to encourage children to engage with the season and learn new practical skills.£12.99each
Autumn Nature Activities Full of fun natural activities to encourage children to engage with the season and learn new practical skills: picking and cooking fruit, looking after birds, basket making, shelter building, making paper and more! Published 2006£12.99
Winter Nature Activities Packed full of fun nature activities to encourage children to engage with the season and learn new practical skills..£12.99
A First Book of Knitting for Children A knitting book with a difference. Rhymes and photos show in detail the basic steps to knitting. Simple, enticing patterns for animals. Also a valuable resource for adults£9.99
Knitting for Children - A Second Book Following on from the successful 'A First Book of Knitting for Children', the authors bring many new skills and a wider variety of patterns for both children and adults. Includes easy to knit sweaters, slippers, doll's clothes and animals. Clear instructions and colour photographs.£13.99
Making Magical Fairy-Tale Puppets Imaginative possibilities for working with fairy wool, with the emphasis on mobiles or hanging dolls,that represent fairy tale characters. The dolls can also be used as toys or puppets.£14.99(hardback)
Making Fairy-Tale Wool Animals Make delightful whimsical animals from pipe cleaners and carded fairy wool. Ideal for use on the season table, or for acting out stories and fairy tales. Clear instructions for parents, advanced crafts person, beginner and children.£14.99(hardback)
The Easter Craft Book The authors show how to make Easter figures and decorations from dough, wool, felt or tissue paper, plus different ways of decorating eggs, making egg cosies, puppets and creating a festive table.£7.99
Magical Window Stars Using special paper folding techniques, coloured paper can be transformed into magical window stars. Step by step instructions for 25 designs, each graded in difficulty. Also shows painting techniques. Published 2006.£9.99
The Christmas Craft Book Simply made decorations are an absorbing way for children to become involved in the celebration of Advent and Christmas.£7.99
Big Summer Activity Book Indoor and outdoor activities, things to make, see and do during the long summer holidays. Includes 500 colour photos and illustrations.£14.99
Earthwise Seasonal craft book using natural materials. A favourite with parents and teachers with young children age 3 and up.£9.99
Mandala Colouring Books Attractive mandala designs for colouring. Perfect for car journeys or rainy days. Mandala Colouring Book - Fairies £2.25 Mandala Colouring Book - Flowers £1.90 Mandala Colouring Book - Animals £2.25 Mandala Colouring Book - Easter £2.25