Why go to the mall when you can make things at home using materials recycled from around the house?This classic educational and creative text features 125 projects, carefully selected by the author to adevelop natural curiosity and self-esteem, a and to demonstrate asimple and important concepts that have shaped the cultures of the world.aSo when a child asks, aWhat can I do?a you can reply, aMake things Paper from laundry lint A bird feeder from clothes hangers Chocolate pudding finger paintings Beautiful fish and potato prints A cardboard box loom that teaches weaving and math A simple pattern to sew shirts, pants, or dresses aThe authoras detailed and delightful drawings fill every page aso that children just starting out and grownups who have missed out can quickly grasp the ideas.a

Ann Sayre Wiseman is a teacher,craftsman and author.Formerly program director for the Boston Children's Museum,she is now teaching at Lesley College Graduate School in Cambridge and conducting workshops for teachers sponsored by the New Hampshire Commission on the Arts,the Massachusetts Council on the Arts,the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities,and the Children's Museum Resource Center.She has published three books on rag tapestry-making,and the word of her children's tapestry workshops has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum in New York,the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,and the Stuart Country Day School in Princeton,New Jersey.