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Come Follow Me! CD - Volume 2
Volume Two in the Parents’ Choice Award-winning series presents more delightful songs you and your children will love to sing. Simply and beautifully arranged for harp, piano, accordion, guitar, cello, violin, and recorder.
Selections include: Early One Morning, All the Birds, I Had a Little Nut Tree, Blow Wind, Blow, I Walk With My Little Lantern, Saint Martin, Autumn Goodbye, Chickadee, Land of the Silver Birch, and more.
Beeswax Votive Candles
The Ten Hour Votive fits into a tea light cup and burns with a steady, golden flame. The Twenty Hour Votive may be lit in a larger, votive container with sides or on a flat holder, essentially standing as a pillar and burns with a steady, golden flame. Made of pure, wonderfully aromatic beeswax in Oregon.
Wool Pets - by Laurie Sharp
From the designer of the Wool Pets kits comes this beautiful, instructional book on needle felting. Most books written on the subject focus on 'flat' needle felting on a surface. This book is about sculptural needle felting--creating 3-D animals and figures using the felting needle to sculpt wool. With color photographs the book shows the techniques step-by-step and describes how the felting needle works with wool fiber to create felt, while explaining the differences between this art form and other forms of felting. The reader will learn how to hold the needle, what sort of materials to use, and why. Also shown are ways to display your felted creations as mobiles, ornaments, or arranged in shadow boxes. Hardbound, 9" x 12".
Contains about 20 complete projects: bug, penguin & chick, butterfly, owl, goldfinch, turtle, bat, chicken & chicks, hummingbird, clownfish, chipmunk, border collie, cat, frog, sheep, pig, giraffe, mermaid, and gnome girl.
Living Crafts Magazine - Fall 2008
"This season, we celebrate lush foliage and the garden harvest with joyful projects. All are made of wool or other natural materials bound to bring autumn inspiration to you and your family."
There are three projects for keeping your children’s heads warm this season: a knitted elf cap, a gnome hat, and crowns made of wool felt in three gorgeous styles: a royal crown, a flower crown, and a mushroom crown. The adorable, easy and inexpensive to make felt gnome hat can be sized for boys and girls of any age. In addition, you'll find patterns for mother-daughter Saturday Morning Sweaters or spend a day making tree branch buttons in the woodshop with a father and daughter. Or learn the simple and easy art of painting with wool. Craft a Story features a hedgehog family and their autumn harvest with craft projects to go with it.
Felted Treasure Pumpkin Kit
Children love to collect things and what better place to hold autumn treasures than in a wooly pumpkin? Created by wet felting, this quick and easy project combines the delights of water play and bouncing balls. It is a fun fall craft for kids and parents to do together. Kit includes instructions and materials to make 2 pumpkins. You will need a 3" ball (a tennis ball covered with plastic works well), needle, and thread. For ages 5 to adult.
Living Crafts: Back issues now available...
Living Crafts Magazine - Summer 2008
This issue features a Little Red Riding Hood knitted cape along with 3 different baskets: one woven, one lined with fabric, and the other crocheted with red leather cord. For your favorite dad you'll find patterns for both a vest and slippers. Hand felt a fish, sew from felt a playful seal, create a nuno felted silk chiffon Fairy Summer Scarf. Make a drawstring backpack to carry suggested items for family trips, spend a summer day natural dyeing, even learn how to make your own stilts for less than $10 this summer, and more.
Living Crafts Magazine - Spring 2008
Enjoy a variety of projects from knitting, sewing, woodwork, beadwork, and wool doll making in this, the second issue of the best and only natural craft magazine around! Included are simple projects for beginners and children, like making wool butterflies and knitted bunnies. Something for everyone.
Living Crafts Magazine - Winter 2008
The Premier Issue includes a variety of projects from knitting, sewing, and doll making to soulful articles on bead necklaces and wool felting. It offers simple projects for beginners and children, like felt hearts and beeswax modeling for children. Also, an exciting feature and pattern for a magnificent sweater designed by Suss Cousins. This issue has instructions for a Felted Farm Playmat (a blanket with a scene) and the article It Takes a Village to Knit a Farm which includes instructions for a knitted playmat.
Animals of the Seasons - Series #29 from Imagin'edition
The Creative Family ~ simple projects & activities for the family
How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections. Amanda Blake Soule shares ideas for creative family crafts and fun with the same warm tone and down-to-earth voice found on her popular blog, Soule Mama. Perfect for all families, the wide range of indoor and outdoor projects presented here offers ideas for imaginative play, art and crafts, nature explorations, and family celebrations. Soft bound, 212 pages.
Baking Bread with Children
With a little know-how anyone can transform a few basic ingredients into a delicious, sustaining loaf of bread. Baking techniques and recipes are cleverly seasoned with stories, songs and poems. There are also instructions for building and using a bread oven, baking projects for kindergarten and school age children, and useful nutritional information. Everything you need to share the magic of baking with children of all ages, including a recipe for Dragon Bread! 211 pages.
Alphabet and Math Cards
Beautiful versions of learning cards from Germany. The Alphabet Cards come in a Basic Set for letter recognition and includes all the letters of the alphabet in upper case, each with a lovable animal picture and its German name. Most images correlate to the English word but a few do not. The Supplemental Set does not have images but is comprised of all the letters in lower case, as well as compound letters (ch, sch, ei, etc.), for colorful learning and spelling of words.
In the Math Basic Set children will count to 10 by ones, then to 100 by tens. Cards 1 through 9 have animal images in a quantity that is representative of each number. Also comes with plus, minus and equals cards. With the Math Full Set individual number counting can go up to 25, with nature oriented images (i.e. 20 morning glory flowers and leaves) up to 21. After 30 there's counting by tens to 100. In addition to plus ( + ), minus ( - ) and equals ( = ), there are times ( ∙ ) and divide ( : ).
Creative Felt - Felting and Making Toys and Gifts
Great book, not just for crafters but as a resource for teachers doing fiber blocks because of all the easy-to-understand basic information about wool and the ancient process of wet felting. And, the majority of the projects are very "Waldorfy". Angelika Wolk-Gerche.
Felted Beads
Little felted baubles for bursts of color. Perfect for stringing as bag handles, embellishing knits, beading, children's crafts or whatever inspires you. Each bag contains 5 ounces, at least 110 solid and marble colored beads in assorted colors. Sizes range from 1/2" to 1" (1-1/2cm to 3cm). Not recommended for use on clothing or toys for children under age 3.
LAMB'S PRIDE WOOL YARNS - New Monochromatic Colors!
This lustrous gently spun single ply yarn is a favorite among handworkers and teachers. It makes stitches that are clearly seen resulting in accurate counting and fewer split stitches. Wonderful for twisted cords, toy animals, doll accessories, balls, puppets, flute bags and more. Makes soft outerwear such as scarves, caps, mittens and socks. Felts beautifully. 85% wool/15% mohair, 4 oz. pull skeins.
Worsted - Use G crochet hook or size 8 and 9 knitting needles.
Bulky -Use K crochet hook or size 10 and 10.5 knitting needles.
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Jacob's Ladder
Let the ladder hang straight down. Hold the top brick on the edges. Tip that top brick forward and backward repeatedly and it will appear to cascade over and over again. A classic toy! Instructions included for tricks, illusions and more. USA. Age 3 to 93.
Tumbler Floor Toy
| Like a rattle but bigger! As it is rolled along the floor or tipped back and forth the colorful wood balls make a pleasant natural sound. Little fingers can reach in and touch and move the balls around. Easy and large enough to grasp if dropped so it's a great toy for the car. Diameter is 4 inches, length is 5-1/2 inches. For ages 1 and up. USA. |
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The Sun Seed
A little Sun Seed follows the cycle of spring into summer into fall into winter as she grows from seedling to golden flower. The illustrations were created with naturally-dyed wool fibers, needle felted in layers to create depth and details to tell this charming and simple story for the young child. A gentle tale of metamorphosis. Ages 3 to 5. Hardcover.
The Sun Egg ~ mini
A mysterious orange egg has fallen into the woods. "It's a sun egg!" declares the elf who finds it nestled on the forest floor. Soon she and her friends find out what it really is, but not before the little elf goes off on one of the best adventures she has ever had. This little Elsa Beskow book measures 7 x 5 inches. Hardbound. Ages 4-9.
Softdough Rainbow Play Set
Includes four 4 oz tubs of Mary's Softdough (red, yellow, green, and blue) along with a hardwood rolling pin and 11 cookie cutters - heart, sun, moon, leaf, frog, squirrel, dragonfly, turtle, butterfly, star and cloud. Ages 3 and up.
Fluffy Wool Butterfly Kit
Fluffy Wool Butterflies can easily be made by a six-year-old child with a little help. Younger children will need adult supervision. Butterflies can be used as spring decorations, party favors, or as wearable art. Small parts, not for children under 3. A Rainbow River Designs kit.
Animal Felt ~ using the felting needle
Felted animals are the subject of this new comprehensive book from world famous felting artist Birgitte Krag Hansen. Charming critters all made using the felting needle and carded wool. Sculpt 3-dimensional figures, incorporate wet-felting for flat pieces, or make animals in relief for the wall. The first animals are so simple they can be made by beginners and then throughout the book the author delves deeper into the various techniques for the benefit of experienced felters. Excellent step-by-step details and photos!
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