Picture from the spanish magazine Habitania.

I don´t like spanish craft magazine usually. I prefer Habitania, about decoration and some crafts articles.For example this one, “how to create with laces”; i think it´s a good idea for adorning a Christmas paper gift bag.

Normalmente las revistas de manualidades españolas no me llaman la atención. Prefiero Habitania, dedicada a la decoración yccon algunos trucos e ideas interesantes. Por ejemplo, estas bolsas de regalo decoradas con encajes- una idea diferente para envolver un regalo navideño-.

Making Books That Fly, Fold, Wrap, Hide, Pop Up, Twist & Turn: Books for Kids to Make (Paperback)
by Gwen Diehn

Published by Sterling Publishing/Lark books.

This book is a book about making books, however it also includes ideas and topics for books and suggestions on presentation suitable to the topic. Explanations and ideas of various learning journeys on how children can present their ideas and research, story telling and artistic pursuits, thinking about the end result of the book as well as the contents, thinking about who the book is for and how it will be used.

The projects are suitable for older kids to do on their own, and for younger children with the supervision of adults. The many projects are mixed up with ideas and examples of historical and famous books. I really loved the choose-your-own-adventure style books, the time capsule and the movie slide show. I found the snippets of the history and culture surrounding books to be very interesting, and loved the idea for ‘the exquisite corpse’ picture book, a variation on the surrealist word game.

This book has excellent illustrations and photographs on the finished products as well as demonstrations on folding paper and various sewing and binding options and a few ideas on ways to illustrate a story. I showed this book to my daughter’s teacher and she was extremely impressed and wanted to include some of the ideas in her classes learning journies.

A great resource for families, holidays and the classroom.