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Presents information about thirteen mysteries from the art world, including questions about the Mona Lisa, van Gogh, and the street artist Banksy.

Go on an art adventure introduce kids to European culture with a creative twist. Super Simple European Art includes enjoyable and unique crafts adapted from Europe, just for kids. They will learn to make a coat of arms, create a stained glass candle, cook up some tasty tapas and more. Step-by-step activities presented with how-to photos make following along easy for young crafters. Go on a cultural art adventure today! Aligned to Common Core Standards...

Uses craft projects to introduce the cultures in South America and Central America.

Go on an art exploration and introduce kids to Mediterranean culture with a creative twist. Super Simple Mediterranean Art includes enjoyable and unique crafts adapted from the Mediterranean Sea, just for kids. They will learn to create an everlasting scoop of gelato, make an ancient Roman scroll, make a fun fez hat and more. Step-by-step activities presented with how-to photos make following along easy for young crafters. Go on a cultural art adventure...

Travel on an art adventure and introduce kids to Indian culture with a creative twist. Super Simple Indian Art includes enjoyable and unique crafts adapted from India, just for kids. They will learn to dye a batik shirt, make music with ankle bells, create bangles bracelets and more. Step-by-step activities presented with how-to photos make following along easy for young crafters. Go on a cultural art adventure today! Aligned to Common Core Standards...

Travel to the Outback on an art adventure and introduce kids to Australian culture with a creative twist. Super Simple Australian Art includes enjoyable and unique crafts adapted from Australia, just for kids. They will learn to make a kangaroo jar, play a didgeridoo, throw a boomerang and more. Step-by-step activities presented with how-to photos make following along easy for young crafters. Go on a cultural art adventure today! Aligned to Common...

Reveals the origins of an interesting range of music topics, from instruments and styles to composers and technological advances.

100 simple art projects for children based on famous and award-winning storybook illustrators from the 1930s to present. Includes basic biographical information and the artist's portraits created by grade school children. Resource guide includes illustrator web sites, book awards list, meet the authors and illustrators, art materials and supplies listed by project, as well as complete book information for the featured illustrators' works

"Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster." So begins The Toaster Project, the author's nine-month-long journey from his local appliance store to remote mines in the UK to his mother's backyard, where he creates a crude foundry. Along the way, he learns that an ordinary toaster is made up of 404 separate parts, that the best way to smelt metal at home is by using a method found in a fifteenth-century treatise, and that plastic...