Children's Nonfiction Crafts & Hobbies
Making Gift Boxes
- Publisher
- Kids Can Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 1999
- Category
- Crafts & Hobbies
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550745030
- Publish Date
- Jun 1999
- List Price
- $5.95
Classroom Resources
Where to buy it
Out of print
This edition is not currently available in bookstores. Check your local library or search for used copies at Abebooks.
Description
In this imaginative craft book in the Kids Can Do It series, kids will find out how to recycle easily found items into 15 beautiful gift boxes. There are quick, simple boxes for young children and more elaborate projects for older kids. Whether they keep them to store their own odds and ends or give them away to friends, kids will be amazed at the fabulous items they can create.
Kids can make a
• monster box
• photo box
• garden box
• treasure box
• country cottage box
• secret book box
About the author
Linda Hendry has been drawing for as long as she can remember. Some of her earliest works can still be found on the underside of her parent’s kitchen table – the same table that she and her sister sat at for hours and hours, filling up endless stacks of doodle pads with drawings of make-believe families and their adventures. After high school (of course she doodled in her notebooks!) Linda studied visual communication at The Alberta College of Art and Design, then moved to Toronto where she was offered the opportunity to illustrate a children’s book called ‘The Queen Who Stole The Sky’. The book was a finalist for the 1986 Canada Council Illustration award, which certainly helped to get her career rolling. Over 60 books later, Linda still loves to draw but has taken time off from illustrating to explore painting with acrylics and oils or try her hand at simple print-making techniques.
Editorial Reviews
A winner in the craft category.
School Library Journal
Check out the Kids Can Press line of great how-to-do-it books for kids of all ages and all of the books listed below have easy to follow step-by-step instructions. Linda Hendry, author of Making Gift Boxes, shows just how much fun recycling can be. A child can easily transform an empty cracker box into a fierce-looking monster while a milk carton becomes a cozy cottage. If your teenage daughter is bemoaning the fact her younger brother is snooping in her stuff, then Linda’s instructions for a secret book box is something the young lady will waste no time in creating.
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