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  • 3D Paper Crafts for Kids: 26 Creative Projects to Make from A-Z

    By Helen Drew (E745.54 Drew)

    Help young children learn and practice the alphabet while having fun making cute paper crafts! 3D Paper Crafts for Kids is an exciting and easy project guide that carefully illustrates how to create 26 charming projects with fun 3D elements using paper, string, and other household items.

  • I Am Not a Toilet Paper Roll: The Recycling Project Book: 10 Incredible Things to Make with Toilet Paper Rolls

    By Carlton Publishing Group (E745.5 I)

    Offers ten crafts that can be made with toilet paper rolls, including a shark, a ninja, a rocket, and a gingerbread man.

  • My Sewing Workshop: Simple Guide to Skills & Supplies: 40 Fun Projects to Stitch & Share

    By Annabel Wrigley (J646.1 Wrig)

    Go-to kids guide to build sewing confidence! Start with the basics and learn all the tools and supplies you need, then venture into mastering special skills like how to use pins, fusible web, irons, hot glue guns, and more. Plus, gain life-long skills like how to sew a button and use a pattern.

  • Make It Yourself!: Collages & Sculptures

    By Carol Hove (J680 Hove)

    Young makers will discover what makerspaces are and how to hold maker events. Kids will make crayon mosaics, metal wind chimes, cardboard cityscapes, and more. Each project has color photos and easy-to-follow instructions.

  • Making with metal: DIY metalworking projects

    By Jessica Rusick (J684.09 Rusi)

    Step-by-step projects help readers practice metalworking skills, and idea spreads inspire ways to apply what they've learned. Included are the history and cultural significance of metalworking, metalworking tools and techniques, metalworking career paths, and highlights of successful metalworkers.

  • Create with Cardboard

    By Marcy Morin (J745.54 Mori)

    What can you do with a box? Anything you can imagine! A way-cool cellphone holder, a party piñata, savvy storage solutions, and more! Think outside the box with more than 10 easy recycled cardboard projects!

  • Stitch Camp: 18 Crafty Projects for Kids & Tweens

    By Nicole Blum (J746.4 Blum)

    Step-by-step photos teach kids ages 9–14 the basics of how to sew, knit, crochet, felt, embroider, and weave, plus how to make three projects for each craft. From woven patches and a knitted backpack to embroidered merit badges and a crocheted bracelet, the fresh, kid-approved projects encourage creative variations and build confidence along with valuable life skills.

  • The Fiber Arts Encyclopedia

    By Zoey Schrader (J746 Schr)

    This title includes step-by-step instructions for projects in crocheting, knitting, embroidery, sewing, and more. Features include sections on preparation and safety and general tools and tips. Sidebars provide additional information.

  • Make It Yourself! Paper Pop-Up Art

    By Pam Chenevert (J745.54 Chen)

    Paper Pop-Up Art! Young makers will discover what makerspaces are and how to hold maker events. Kids will make pop-up cards, pop-up cityscapes, pop-up vacation scenes, and more. Each project has color photos and easy-to-follow instructions.

  • Mini Holiday Crafts to Celebrate in Style

    By Rebecca Felix (J745.5 Feli)

    Looking to celebrate a holiday in style? Think mini! Grow seedlings in super-small pots for Earth Day. Create cute color bursts for the Hindu holiday Holi. Then use your crafts to make merry. Easy instructions and step photos will help you become a miniature master.

  • Junior Maker: Experiments to Try, Crafts to Create and Lots to Learn!

    By DK Publishing (J745.5 Juni)

    Offers instructions for interactive activities, crafts, and experiments designed to supplement what young readers learn in school, including creating marshmallow constellations, a lion mosaic, and fizzing balloons.

  • The Crafting Encyclopedia

    By Zoey Schrader (J745.5 Schr)

    This title includes step-by-step instructions for projects in drawing, jewelry making, leather and metalworking, painting, woodworking, and more. Features include sections on preparation and safety, the elements of design, composition, and color theory.

  • Creating with Ceramics: DIY Clay and Pottery Projects

    By Rebecca Felix (J738.14 Feli)

    Step-by-step projects help readers practice ceramics skills, and idea spreads inspire ways to apply what they've learned.

  • Make It Yourself: Coloring and Doodling

    By Paige V. Polinsky (J680 Poli)

    Kids will decorate tennis shoes, design CD art, make reusable doodle tables, and more. Each project has color photos and easy-to-follow instructions.