Author: Anne Akers Johnson
Publisher: Klutz
ISBN: 9781570540400
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Complete, super clear instructions and all you need to bring is ten fingers.
String Games from Around the World
Author: Anne Akers Johnson
Publisher: Klutz
ISBN: 9781570540400
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Complete, super clear instructions and all you need to bring is ten fingers.
Publisher: Klutz
ISBN: 9781570540400
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Complete, super clear instructions and all you need to bring is ten fingers.
String Figures and how to Make Them
Author: Caroline F. Jayne
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486201528
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Diagrams and text illustrate the steps involved in creating over one hundred string figures while providing information on their origin and cultural background
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486201528
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Diagrams and text illustrate the steps involved in creating over one hundred string figures while providing information on their origin and cultural background
Finger Strings
Author: Michael Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780863156656
Category : String figures
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Finger string games are a wonderful opportunity for today's children to practice meaningful movement, explore space, interact with others, and exercise their creative spirits. They are also great fun String games can be especially useful to children who struggle at school or are dyslexic, and for those who are learning the concepts of "left and right" and "up and down." Finger Strings contains games that will delight all children, from the very young to those with greater dexterity. Michael Taylor has many years of experience working with children and has shared his string figures at schools and camps throughout the world. Finger Strings contains more than eighty inventive, imaginative string games and stories, all clearly illustrated with step-by-step, color diagrams. This book is designed especially to require minimal page-turning while making string shapes. Ringbound to lie flat. Includes two brightly colored strings to get you started.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780863156656
Category : String figures
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Finger string games are a wonderful opportunity for today's children to practice meaningful movement, explore space, interact with others, and exercise their creative spirits. They are also great fun String games can be especially useful to children who struggle at school or are dyslexic, and for those who are learning the concepts of "left and right" and "up and down." Finger Strings contains games that will delight all children, from the very young to those with greater dexterity. Michael Taylor has many years of experience working with children and has shared his string figures at schools and camps throughout the world. Finger Strings contains more than eighty inventive, imaginative string games and stories, all clearly illustrated with step-by-step, color diagrams. This book is designed especially to require minimal page-turning while making string shapes. Ringbound to lie flat. Includes two brightly colored strings to get you started.
Mindful String Games
Author: Chronicle Books
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781452179681
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Relax and find your calm. Move your hands to still your mind. In this meditative take on the traditional game of cat's cradle, players use a looped string to inspire mental calm. The boxed set includes an instruction booklet with dreamy illustrations for 15 string games to play alone or with a friend. - Fans of adult coloring books, desktop Japanese Zen sand gardens, knitting, and other handwork/craft activities that have mindfulness or calming benefits will love this product. It's also a great way to start a meditation practice if traditional meditation hasn't worked for you. - The elegant packaging also makes this a lovely gift for anyone who has nostalgic childhood memories of playing cat's cradle. Includes: - Sturdy looped nylon cord - 88-page instruction booklet with 75+ illustrations, relaxation techniques, and step-by-step instructional text for 15 games, like the Celtic Knot, the Butterfly, the Lizard, the Well, and Three Diamonds
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781452179681
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Relax and find your calm. Move your hands to still your mind. In this meditative take on the traditional game of cat's cradle, players use a looped string to inspire mental calm. The boxed set includes an instruction booklet with dreamy illustrations for 15 string games to play alone or with a friend. - Fans of adult coloring books, desktop Japanese Zen sand gardens, knitting, and other handwork/craft activities that have mindfulness or calming benefits will love this product. It's also a great way to start a meditation practice if traditional meditation hasn't worked for you. - The elegant packaging also makes this a lovely gift for anyone who has nostalgic childhood memories of playing cat's cradle. Includes: - Sturdy looped nylon cord - 88-page instruction booklet with 75+ illustrations, relaxation techniques, and step-by-step instructional text for 15 games, like the Celtic Knot, the Butterfly, the Lizard, the Well, and Three Diamonds
Kids Around the World Play!
Author: Arlette N. Braman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471235083
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Play games from all around the globe! Learn to play Mexican kickball. Practice throwing jackstones the way kids do in Kenya. Discover how to construct a galimoto (wire toy from Malawi) with pipe cleaners. With Kids Around the World Play!, you'll have a great time exploring the traditions of other cultures while you sharpen your wits with the memory game from South Africa called dithwai, or challenge your racing skills in the South Korean flower relay, or make your own cool bilboquet, a toy from France. Filled with games and activities from places near and far, including China, Japan, india, Mexico, Bolivia, italy, and Russia, among many others, this exciting collection also gives you plenty of fascinating facts about the history and culture of each country. All the toys and games can be made or played with just a few simple materials easily found around the house. So get ready for tons of fun and excitement while you discover just how much you have in common with kids around the world!
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471235083
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Play games from all around the globe! Learn to play Mexican kickball. Practice throwing jackstones the way kids do in Kenya. Discover how to construct a galimoto (wire toy from Malawi) with pipe cleaners. With Kids Around the World Play!, you'll have a great time exploring the traditions of other cultures while you sharpen your wits with the memory game from South Africa called dithwai, or challenge your racing skills in the South Korean flower relay, or make your own cool bilboquet, a toy from France. Filled with games and activities from places near and far, including China, Japan, india, Mexico, Bolivia, italy, and Russia, among many others, this exciting collection also gives you plenty of fascinating facts about the history and culture of each country. All the toys and games can be made or played with just a few simple materials easily found around the house. So get ready for tons of fun and excitement while you discover just how much you have in common with kids around the world!
Cat's Cradle
Author: Anne Akers Johnson
Publisher: Klutz
ISBN: 9781878257536
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In today's high tech world, people have completely forgotten how to make The Cup and Saucer, The Witch's Broom, and Jacob's Ladder. Thank goodness for Cat's Cradle. This book's simple instructions and ultra-clear instructional art are foolproof.
Publisher: Klutz
ISBN: 9781878257536
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In today's high tech world, people have completely forgotten how to make The Cup and Saucer, The Witch's Broom, and Jacob's Ladder. Thank goodness for Cat's Cradle. This book's simple instructions and ultra-clear instructional art are foolproof.
String Games
Author: Richard Darsie
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402727870
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Provides directions, illustrated with photographs, for making many different string figures-- from the fairly simple Jacob's Ladder to more complex Mt. Fuji-- along with information about their history and meaning.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402727870
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Provides directions, illustrated with photographs, for making many different string figures-- from the fairly simple Jacob's Ladder to more complex Mt. Fuji-- along with information about their history and meaning.
A Promise is a Promise
Author: Robert N. Munsch
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9780871294937
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
". . . warmth and humor of Munsch at his best".--Globe and Mail. Full-color illustrations.
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9780871294937
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
". . . warmth and humor of Munsch at his best".--Globe and Mail. Full-color illustrations.
Steampunk Soldiers
Author: Philip Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472807030
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Between 1887 and 1895, the British art student Miles Vandercroft travelled around the world, sketching and painting the soldiers of the countries through which he passed. In this age of dramatic technological advancement, Vandercroft was fascinated by how the rise of steam technology at the start of the American Civil War had transformed warfare and the role of the fighting man. This volume collects all of Vandercroft's surviving paintings, along with his associated commentary on the specific military units he encountered. It is a unique pictorial guide to the last great era of bright and colourful uniforms, as well as an important historical study of the variety of steam-powered weaponry and equipment that abounded in the days before the Great War of the Worlds.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472807030
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Between 1887 and 1895, the British art student Miles Vandercroft travelled around the world, sketching and painting the soldiers of the countries through which he passed. In this age of dramatic technological advancement, Vandercroft was fascinated by how the rise of steam technology at the start of the American Civil War had transformed warfare and the role of the fighting man. This volume collects all of Vandercroft's surviving paintings, along with his associated commentary on the specific military units he encountered. It is a unique pictorial guide to the last great era of bright and colourful uniforms, as well as an important historical study of the variety of steam-powered weaponry and equipment that abounded in the days before the Great War of the Worlds.
Pull the Other One!
Author: Michael Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781869890490
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
This well-travelled and entertaining series of tales is accompanied by clear instructions and explanatory diagrams - guaranteed not to tie you in knots and will teach you tricks with which to dazzle your friends!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781869890490
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
This well-travelled and entertaining series of tales is accompanied by clear instructions and explanatory diagrams - guaranteed not to tie you in knots and will teach you tricks with which to dazzle your friends!