Fun to Make and Do (Jump craft) - Hardcover

Packed with inspiration and information, this is a bumper children's craft book with projects demonstrated with photography and easy-to-follow instructions. It is illustrated with bright examples of work, showing the various stages and completed product. The book covers simple painting techniques, combined media and printing using various objects and a suggested range of pastes and paints. Unusual carboard frames made to surround a photograph or illustration are described, as is the use of stencilling for decorating paper, card, fabric and wood. Easter eggs become a striking decoration with the application of wax crayons, candle wax, food colouring and onion skins. Marbling is not a difficult process when following the step-by-step instructions and can be used for wrapping presents and covering books. For a more graphic appearance the book provides guidelines on making the most unusual prints from different textures found inside and out such as planks of wood, car tyres, manhole covers and leaves. These patterns can be used as wrapping or writing paper, for covering books and even wallpaper. The prints are made using string, cardboard or even pasta on blocks of wood.

Complicated print methods for overlaying print images are explained and the excitement of peeling off a monoprint for wall decoration using bright strong images and colour painted onto a glass surface is described. Three dimensional paper art in the form of paper curls, paper beads, crumpled paper, woven paper, stuck and torn paper and concertina folds come to life with the books guidance. These ideas can them be transferred to slit and slot cards, letter decoration, gift tags and useful carrier bags. More complicated methods of altering the shape of a flat piece of paper are shown using a craft knife to create 3-D designs, stand-up forms and pop-up cards. Paper engineering evolves into the construction of theatres with backdrops and characters. The text also gives tips for making papier mache fruit and vegetables, playdough characters, Christmas decorations, mobiles, pinch pots and slab pots from clay and 3-D pictures using self-hardening clay on a card background.