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Quarry Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Jewelry Lab uses brevity to ignite a passion for working the metals processes and learning about all the ways metal can be used. It provides aspiring metalsmiths and jewelry makers a way to learn fundamental techniques that is quick and fun. In addition to the basic skills such as sawing, drilling, soldering, and finishing, the book covers texturing, etching, rolling, coloring, patinas, forming, connections, findings, solders, bezels, rivets,
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Publisher
Quarry Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Art Lab for Kids is a refreshing source of wonderful ideas for creating fine art with children. This step-by-step book offers 52 fun and creative art projects set into weekly lessons, beginning with drawing, moving through painting and printmaking, and then building to paper collage and mixed media.
Each lesson features and relates to the work and style of a contemporary artist and their unique style. The labs can be used as...
Each lesson features and relates to the work and style of a contemporary artist and their unique style. The labs can be used as...
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Publisher
Quarry Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Developed for the younger set (4-6 year olds) and targeting one of the most critical developmental periods for children, Art Lab for Little Kids is the perfect book for both parents and teachers who are seeking enriching and unique experiences to offer this age group. As in Susan Schwake's first book, Art Lab for Kids (Quarry Books, 2012), the Labs can be used as singular projects, or used to build up to a year of hands-on fine art experiences. Each...
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Publisher
Quarry Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Paint Lab is packed with unique and experimental techniques and ideas in painting. This hands-on book is organized into 52 units, which may, but don't need to be explored on a weekly basis. The labs can be worked on in any order, so that you can flip around to learn a new mixed-media technique or be inspired by a particular painting theme or application. The underlying message of this book is that, as an artist, you should learn and gain expertise...
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Publisher
Quarry Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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A refreshing source of ideas to help your children learn to grow their own patch of earth, Gardening Lab for Kids encourages children to get outside and enjoy nature. This fun and creative book features 52 plant-related activities set into weekly lessons, beginning with learning to read maps to find your heat zone, moving through seeds, soil, composting, and then creating garden art and appreciating your natural surroundings.
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Quarry Books
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English
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"There's no place like home to start inspiring young scientists. The 52 labs in Kitchen Science Lab for Kids require no specialized equipment of dangerous chemicals. Instead they use materials most of us keep in our pantries--milk, aluminum foil, laundry detergent--to introduce fundamental principles of physics, chemistry, and biology. Calling on her experience in research labs and as a mom, author Liz Lee Heinecke has developed experiments that are...
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Series
Publisher
Quarry Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Travel through the exciting world of cartography with Map Lab. This fun and creative book features 52 map-related activities set into weekly exercises, beginning with legends and lines, moving through types and styles, and then creating personalized maps that allow you to journey to new worlds. Authors Jill K. Berry and Linden McNeilly guide readers through useful concepts while exploring colorful, eye-catching graphics. The labs can be used as singular...
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Publisher
Quarry Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Create the very best mixed media with 52 inspiring exercises!Strenthening your understanding and use of color will make your mixed-media art shine as you complete 52 labs that span painting, collage, drawing, assemblage and more.In Color Lab for Mixed Media Artists, color is explored through multiple lenses-nature, history, psychology, expression-as you work through 52 exciting and approachable projects that explore the infinite potential of the...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Includes a variety of creative exercises that explore the game's aspects and use them to teach fun, educational lessons. Begin the book by brushing up on some common Minecraft language and examining each of the four game modes: survival, creative, adventure, and spectator. Then, use this knowledge to venture off onto the six different quests that encourage child and adult participation. These "gamified" labs will allow your child to earn stickers...
11) Clay lab for kids: 52 projects to make, model, and mold with air-dry, polymer, and homemade clay
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Nashville art teacher Cassie Stephens makes clay a focus of her elementary school classes with amazing results. In Clay Lab for Kids she shares 32 creative hands-on projects."--
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Quarry Book, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Learn about the complexities of shapes, build your own, and transform them through the interactive labs in Math Lab for Kids : Geometry and Topology. These labs challenge kids to think outside of the box and encourages them to become better problem-solvers. Create prisms, antiprisms, platonic solids, möbius strips, and more cool shapes; no pricey crafting supplies needed -- use simple, household items that are just as fun and creative; advanced activities...
Author
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Publisher
Quarry Book, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Math Lab for Kids proves that math is more than just numbers--the hands-on activities in this book make learning math fun! Curves and Fractals explores curve stitching, a way to approximate a curve using only straight lines; and fractals, which are patterns of shapes that look similar no matter whether you zoon in or out. Build your own fractals such as a Sierpinski triangle and a Koch snowflake. No expensive supplies are required! Everything needed...
16) Tangrams and puzzles: fun, hands-on activities for learning math / Rebecca Rapoport and J.A. Yoder
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Publisher
Quarry Book, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Learn about the Chinese craft of creating a work of art through reassembled shapes in the interactive labs in Math Labs for Kids : Tangrams and Puzzles. Practice skills such as rule-following, counting, and shape recognition to solve puzzles and make creative pieces of work; no pricey crafting supplies needed -- use simple, household items that are just as fun and creative; adanced activities included with each lab with a Hints & Solutions section...
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English
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"Recent research has shown that children learn and develop new skills more quickly when they engage in playful, whole body activities. Movement allows them to refocus their attention, improves brain function, reduces stress, and improves circulation. Not only that, but the more senses that are used for learning, the more likely information is to be stored and retrieved. The activities in Playful Learning Lab for Kids explore concepts in reading,...
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Series
Publisher
Quarry Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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STEAM Lab for Kids is an art-forward doorway to science, math, technology, and engineering through 52 family-friendly experiments and activities.
While many aspiring artists don't necessarily identify with STEM subjects, and many young inventors don't see the need for art, one is essential to the other. Revealing this connection and encouraging kids to explore it fills hungry minds with tools essential to problem solving and...
While many aspiring artists don't necessarily identify with STEM subjects, and many young inventors don't see the need for art, one is essential to the other. Revealing this connection and encouraging kids to explore it fills hungry minds with tools essential to problem solving and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Quarry Books, an imprint of the Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Understanding the Earth engages kids with eleven hands-on labs that are not only educational, but fun to do. The interactive activities educate children on meteorites, the makeup of the Earth, and the beauty of Earth's treasures. Explore the Earth's surface to find curios and rocks, and learn about the prehistoric Earth as well as the makeup and mysteries of other planets in space" -- back cover.
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Quarry Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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In Stitch and String Lab for Kids, art teacher and winner of the Netflix bake-off show Nailed It! Cassie Stephens presents 40+ inventive projects that explore everything from simple sewing, embroidery, and weaving to string art, needle felting, and yarn crafts.
Stitch and String Lab for Kids leads children, step by step, through a huge range of sewing and fiber art projects. As they go, they will learn a variety...
Stitch and String Lab for Kids leads children, step by step, through a huge range of sewing and fiber art projects. As they go, they will learn a variety...
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