Teaching Art & Craft, Drama

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The first in a new series of hands-on instructions for folding circles. This book contains the first steps in generating information and some amazingly beautiful and complex forms by simply folding and joining circles.

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The second volume expands on the material in the first book and takes the reader into new territory. While other approaches to teaching geometry are geared toward the analytical and from traditional static modeling, this book brings the experience of these concepts and functions down to the primary grade level by folding paper plates.

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Instructional writing, drawings and photographs in a step by step exploration of reconfiguring the circle using only the nine creases necessary to fold the regular tetrahedron.

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This book is comprehensive to the process. It will go as far and as deep as you want to take it.
Lots of examples of what can be achieved by simply folding paper plates.

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This text is concerned with the making and performing of puppets, concentrating on design and performance with the main types of puppet. Topics covered include: nature and heritage of puppet theatre; the anatomy of a puppet; its design and structure and puppet control and manipulation.

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Enhanced with more than 200 sequenced photographs and diagrams, the comprehensive manual contains valuable advice for making heads, bodies, wigs, and puppet clothing and includes entire chapters on how to manipulate the puppet, set up and furnish a stage, light scenes, and even how to build miniature pieces of furniture.

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This lucid, easy-to-follow book was specifically designed to teach beginners how to bring hand puppets to life and how, with practice, to develop the skills needed to mount a puppet show, complete with staging, costumes and special effects.

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George Latshaw, master puppeteer, shares his expertise in the variety of behind-the-scenes skills involved in bringing puppets to life. This profusely illustrated guide will serve as an invaluable reference book for anybody involved in theatre and theatrical productions.

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Whether you're a beginner to the world of puppet making or an experienced professional puppeteer, The Foam Book was written with you in mind. This easy guide to designing and building your own polyfoam puppets will take you step-by-step through the creative process.

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This is a practical approach to the theory of visual language, taking the basics of line, shape, tone, colour, texture, form, scale, space and light and discussing how to use them. The first half of the book talks about how artists can use these elements to create their own visual language and how this can be applied to develop their own work.

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Using ideas and activities already tried and tested in the classroom, this book shows practitioners how imaginative drama lessons and activities can be used to help encourage and improve children's writing, speaking and listening skills.

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In this unique and innovative book on movement and dance development from birth to eight years, the author draws on her depth of knowledge and practical experience in helping children to become skilled, creative and imaginative in a wide range of movement-oriented activities. The book seeks to help early childhood educators and parents in very practical ways and provides guidance based on a sound theoretical understanding.

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Beading, one of the oldest forms of craft, is also a hot new trend and being used in new applications. Beadwork, which has typically been used in fashion, home decoration and jewellery, is reaching for new horizons and showing up on quilts, journals, knits, crochet and fibre arts of all kinds. In this book...