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Crafts for Learning programs are one-time or multi-session worksops for schools, libraries, and enrichment programs and other groups, including homeschoolers, scout troops, senior centers, bookclubs, or moms’ night out gatherings. All materials are provided, along with informational handouts containing directions plus fun quizzes, coloring sheets and other activities.

2010 Library Summer Program - Make a Splash!

Build Your Own Waterwheel

Build Your Own ArtBot
Solar, Wind and Water
World History Through Crafts
Funky Junk Recycling Workshop
Invent Your Own Country
Past Programs - Contact Kathy for Availability!

Print a Crafts for Learning program brochure (Color) (Black & White)

See the Crafts for Learning Schedule for 2010

World History Through Crafts

Learn about different times and places while you make a great-looking craft to take home! World History Through Crafts uses hands-on exploration, stories, music and more to uncover the history, geography, language, food, architecture, transportation, family dynamics, literature, folk tales, and music of different cultures. Projects include:

Colonial Pastimes:

Paper Quilling, Silhouettes, and Ben Franklin’s Glass Armonica

An Archeological Mystery:

Ancient Celtic Metalwork

The Abacus and The History of Counting:

From Babylon to Japan

Yarn paintings and Ojos de Dios:

The Huichol Indians of the Sierra Madres

Australian Boomerangs:

Stories of the Dreamtime

Tibetan Sand Mandalas:

The Buddhist Way of Life

Life in the Arctic:

The Inuksuk and the Storyknife Game

Prehistoric Cave Paintings:

Portraits of Ice Age Mammals

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Funky Junk

Make great jewelry, accessories and totes from recycled trash! Collect your materials from the school lunchroom or home, and then learn how to make these great items:

• Milk carton change purses
• Potato chip bag bracelets or belts
• Juice pouch beach totes or lunch bags

A fun activity for scout troops or birthday parties!

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Invent Your Own Country

Here’s your chance to be in charge (and find out what makes a country a country)! Team up with other students to write your own Declaration of Independence explaining what your new country is about; compose and record a national anthem; design a flag that symbolizes your country’s ideals; and make a 3-D map of your territory. You decide what kind of government, laws, and economic system will help your country achieve its goals. (Tyrants beware! You may be overthrown by your “loyal” subjects!) And you and your team come up with holidays, traditions and maybe even a new language that can bind your people together. At the end you’ll get a chance to display your country’s money, stamps, art, dance, music, clothing, food and technology at a class-wide Micronational World’s Fair.

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