A World Full of Christmas Crafts - Helen Mortimer

A World Full of Christmas Crafts

24 ways to celebrate the festive season

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Buch | Hardcover
68 Seiten
2024
Frances Lincoln Children's Books (Verlag)
978-0-7112-9350-2 (ISBN)
16,20 inkl. MwSt
A World Full of Christmas Crafts is an illustrated treasury of activities and recipes to count down to and celebrate the magic of Christmas.
Craft around the world this Christmas and find out how children from different cultures celebrate the festive season.

Christmas is celebrated in so many different ways around the world. This sparkling, illustrated treasury of 24 festive activities and recipes inspired by different countries keeps kids busy in the count down to Christmas, by encouraging them to create their own treats, decorations and more!

Children and adults alike will delight in the wide range of activities to choose from. Whether it’s baking or making, there's something for everyone:
 



Paper woven hearts originating from Denmark
Mini lanterns from the Philippines
Paper pine trees from Japan
Gingerbread reindeer cookies from the US
Maracas to shake from Trinidad and Tobago



Each craft features a little description about the tradition or celebration it’s inspired by, how it may have started and the country it originated from. With simple step-by-step illustrated instructions, each activity is easy to follow for children and adults to do alone or together. It also includes stunning double-page illustrations that capture the widespread joy and magic of Christmas. Learn how Christmas is celebrated across the world and get excited for this time of the year!

Crafts/recipes from Denmark, Australia, Syria, Germany, Greece, Sweden, Peru, Philippines, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Finland, South Korea, Ukraine, United States, Poland, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, Japan, Italy, France and Ethiopia. 

Joy Laforme is a self-taught illustrator and an artist with an M.A. in interactive design from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Born and raised in the Hudson Valley in New York, Joy eventually settled in a small town outside New York City near the Ramapo Mountains. Her mother's love of all things Americana and garden have informed Joy's contemporary folk art style and her work with brands, publishers and print publications. She works in a variety of mediums, including digital, gouache and pastel. For more work, please visit www.joylaforme.com, and follow her on Instagram and Pinterest @joylaforme for the newest available artwork and behind-the-scenes images. Helen Mortimer grew up in Hertfordshire and as a child she loved the preparations for Christmas, especially searching local hedgerows for holly and ivy to make into a wreath and decorating the tree on Christmas Eve while listening to carols. Helen now lives in Oxfordshire where she works as a children’s books editor and has also had some of her own titles published including The Winter Wish (HarperCollins) and Omar, the Bees and Me (Owlet Press).  

DENMARK: A heart with a fairy-tale beginning

AUSTRALIA: Elf on duty

SYRIA: December Pancake Day

GERMANY: Christmas windows

GREECE: Oh, Christmas boat!

SWEDEN: Lighting up the darkness

PERU: Did someone say chocolate?

PHILIPPINES: Let it glow

CANADA: Festive place names

SPAIN: Stable scenes

MEXICO: A Christmas journey

FINLAND: Citrus and spice and all things nice!

NEW ZELAND: Blooming Christmas

PORTUGAL: Festive fritters

SOUTH KOREA: Grandpa Santa

UKRAINE: The legend of the Christmas spider

UNITED STATES: Santa track and trace

POLAND: Starry, starry night

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: Let’s play some parang

UNITED KINGDOM: Walking in a winter wonderland

JAPAN: New Year’s pine

ITALY: La Befana

FRANCE: A cake fit for a king

ETHIOPIA: Win or lose, celebrate Genna

Templates

Erscheinungsdatum
Illustrationen Joy Laforme
Sprache englisch
Maße 195 x 240 mm
Gewicht 500 g
Themenwelt Kinder- / Jugendbuch Sachbücher Kunst / Musik
Kinder- / Jugendbuch Sachbücher Religion / Philosophie / Psychologie
Kinder- / Jugendbuch Sachbücher Tiere / Pflanzen / Natur
ISBN-10 0-7112-9350-3 / 0711293503
ISBN-13 978-0-7112-9350-2 / 9780711293502
Zustand Neuware
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