Make it Wild! shows how children can enjoy the endless opportunities offered by wild places. Looking at what nature has to offer, they explore the potential of diverse raw materials such as snow, leaves, and sticks and suggest how to work with them. The book demonstrates how to use nature’s free, renewable resources to make anything from a clay monster to an ice lantern or flaming balloons. Making things outdoors involves creativity and imagination, as well as learning how to solve practical problems, how to work together, the need to see a process through from start to finish, and the safe use of potentially dangerous tools — all of which help children acquire the skills they need to cope with the world and develop a commonsense understanding of the way it works.
Spis treści
Ephemeral art
Beach art
Woodland art
Ice and snow
Outdoor toys
Wooden go-carts
Cricket and rounders bats
Boats and rafts 56
Planes and gliders
Kites
Flaming balloons
Make it from clay
Working with wild clay
Decorative tiles
Pinch pots
Sculptures
Firing clay
Smoke decorating
Make it from wood
Rustic furniture
Driftwood sculptures
Twig sculpture
Wild baskets
Withy lanterns
Nature’s pigments
Natural paints
Natural dyes
Natural crafts
Jewellery
Paper making
Leaf plates and bowls
Pewter casting
Felting
Making a leather purse
Natural mobiles and windchimes
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Jo Schofield gained a degree in psychology from Exeter University and began her career working for an educational psychologist in London. After getting involved in the production of a film, she went on to work in the creative department of a TV advertising agency where she began taking still photographs. This led on to her becoming a commercial photographer in Australia and then London. She worked mainly for national editorial magazines such as Country Living. When her children were small she worked in Watlington Primary School and the Dragon school in Oxford, applying her creative knowledge to the classroom with children aged 6-9 years. More recently she has been focusing on writing and photographing for a series of books with co-author Fiona Danks. Jo lives near Watlington in Oxfordshire.