Book Description
Remember those childhood days spent running in your bare feet, playing make-believe, and most of all, living life with wonderment? That youthful enthusiasm and playfulness are key to discovering who you are and what you love to do. Living Out Loud is the perfect prescription for a creative jump start to your life. Included are games, projects, activities, crafts, postcards, and playful ideas that will send you off on an exciting adventure, where you'll discover inspiration around and within you.
Customer Reviews:
Living Out Loud.......2007-09-21
I loved the little book which has plenty of exercises to fuel my creative energy.
LOVE IT!!!.......2007-09-19
I just got this book yesterday and LOVE IT! Only getting through the first few pages and already set my 33-Things To Do when I turn 33! Its an easy way to infuse creativity into everyday life which is exactly what I was looking for. Were all busy with family, work, obligations, and life in general This book is a good way to keep focused but still keep play and fun on your mind!
It's for females. Strong females but females........2007-04-20
My blog's gone flat these days and I was looking to color outside the lines a bit. Keri's book is great. The illustrations are fun and the tips are good but it's definitely targeted to women. I think I'll give it to my daughter when she's a bit older.
For instance: Under Solitude there is a page on "the Art of Resting" which depicts flannel pj's (I hate pajamas), endless cups of tea (I hate tea), it shows a woman sitting in a yoga position resting (I like to sit and relax just anyway I happen to flop down, I'm a terminally tired parent). All this stuff could be done by any guy, but the tone is clearly directed at gentle womanly stuff. Guys (and I've been characterized as overly sensitive) need an occasional aggressive outlet, it's just part of the biochemistry.
Good book, but read more carefully about it if you're male before buying.
Love Love Love this book!.......2007-01-06
This is one of my all-time favorite books! I love Keri Smith's style and try to emulate her creativity. Wonderful book!
Living Out Loud Review.......2006-08-06
I LOVE this book. It's filled with wonderful creative and inspiring ideas. I bought one for both of my sisters too!
Book Description
In a book likely to transform how parents manage many of their child's daily struggles, Drs. Smith and Gouze explain the central and frequently unrecognized role that sensory processing problems play in a child's emotional and behavioral difficulties. Practicing child psychologists, and themselves parents of children with sensory integration problems, their message is innovative, practical, and, above all, full of hope.
A child with sensory processing problems overreacts or underreacts to sensory experiences most of us take in stride. A busy classroom, new clothes, food smells, sports activities, even hugs can send such a child spinning out of control. The result can be heartbreaking: battles over dressing, bathing, schoolwork, social functions, holidays, and countless other events. In addition, the authors say, many childhood psychiatric disorders may have an unidentified sensory component.
Readers Will Learn:
- The latest scientific knowledge about sensory integration
- How to recognize sensory processing problems in children and evaluate the options for treatment
- How to prevent conflicts by viewing the child's world through a "sensory lens"
- Strategies for handling sensory integration challenges at home, at school, and in twenty-first century kid culture
The result: a happier childhood, a more harmonious family, and a more cooperative classroom. This thoroughly researched, useful, and compassionate guide will help families start on a new path of empowerment and success.
Customer Reviews:
The Sensory-Sensitive Child.......2007-06-10
It is very informative. It explains what is going on through the childs eyes as well as the frustrations that we as parents are going through with such a situation. It has made me better aware of the symtoms and how to deal with them. It also lets me know that my son is not alone in his struggles and it has been identified as a "real" issue, not just what a lot of people like to say is just an excuse as to why your child is misbehaving. I appreciated the input and am making a doctor's appointment next week in order to try and work on my son's sensory issues. I am extremely thankful that I found this book to purchase and read.
The Sensory Sensitive Child.......2006-11-17
The Sensory Sensitive Child is one of the best books I have read on the subject. It truly helps explain what the child and families may be going through and gives practical solutions for dealing with sensory processing disorder. I recommend it highly.
What EVERY parent should know about their special child!.......2006-11-04
As I started reading this book, a light bulb went off...either someone absolutely knew my granddaughter, from the inside out, or I wasn't alone anymore!! WOW! This book, is full of information, suggestions, and in general REALLY GOOD help for anyone who lives with a child with Sensory Integration Dysfunction. Key message...YOU'RE NOT ALONE...and HELP IS AVAILABLE!
These Authors have "been there".......2006-09-28
This is a fantastic book. My second daughter (now aged 7) has global and verbal dyspraxia (motor planning). We have been to many specialists for diagnosis. We have been in speech therapy since she was 2 1/2. We have had some OT, but not as much as is discussed in this book. We have been searching for ideas and answers, reading books, etc for most of her life. This book is the absolute best I have read for describing "What is it like, being a sensory-sensitive child and also a parent of a sensory-sensitive child. A Child whose world is not near as easy as it is for ordinary children." This book offers insight, relief, excellent advice and reasonable hope that you, as a parent, can make a significant improvement in your child's life. It is also very readable (many of these types of books are hard to finish). Thank-you, Thank-you, Thank-you, Karen and Karen. Well Done.
Mother of a Sensory Kid.......2006-08-03
This book is a good primer for parents of kids with sensory processing disorder. Book is organized well and is an easy read. The book describes the characteristics of this disorder in segments which makes it easy to use it as a reference guide. The book does not offer a lot of ideas to help with sensory diet (keeping your kid happy and meeting his/her needs)--for that I recommend, Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun.
Book Description
Have You Found Your True Calling?
True Calling?
Yeah. True Calling.
The reason you're alive. Your personal mission in life. Your raison d'etre. Your True Calling.
If you don't have a clue what I'm talking about, take a couple seconds to complete this quick quiz: Are you doing EXACTLY the kind of work that makes you want to leap out of bed each morning excited to begin a new day? Does your work satisfy a need deep within to express yourself, your talents, your values, your unique and precious gifts? Does your work allow for a balanced life - one that leaves time for family and friends, for exercise or hobbies, for you? Are you doing what you love and loving what you do?
If you answered "yes" to all of these questions, congratulations! There's a good chance that you have achieved what the Buddhist's call "Right Livelihood." If you haven't yet found the work you were meant to do, keep reading. You're about to find your true calling - and when you find that calling that is uniquely yours, your life will be transformed. Guaranteed. "The way to find out about your happiness," said renowned mythology scholar Joseph Campbell, "is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy - not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy." Read that paragraph again. It's awesome.
Now ask yourself how you feel each day as you get ready for work. It probably sounds something like this. Your alarm clock buzzes you awake. You drag yourself out of bed, dreading another day at a job that's high on stress and short on satisfaction. I guess what I'm asking you is this: Are You Truly Happy Working In A Career That's Fulfilling And Enjoyable? Because when you really love your work you greet the day like this: You don't need an alarm clock because you can't wait to get out of bed and dive into another workday where your work feels more like play. Maybe you think it's too late. Maybe you believe that you've somehow missed your True Calling and that… well… you're not getting any younger.
Nonsense. The 19th century writer George Eliot got it right when she said, "You're never too old to be what you might have been."
Customer Reviews:
Motivating!.......2007-06-20
This workbook effectively challenges you to thouroughly look at yourself for your answers! Working through the book helps you to unwrap and find what can make you happy in the workplace - how to bring more of yourself out. It assists you in identifying your deeper (possibly hidden) talents, wants, desires and put them to WORK for you! It helps you to design your likes into work, which in turn makes work not really work anymore but just doing what you love.
Discover Your Own Life.......2007-03-15
Most of us want more than a career. We want to know "What is the purpose of my life?" Purely by accident I stumbled across Valerie Young and Finding Your True Calling. I purchased the book as part of a personal consultation with the author, but the book is effective in its own right. Add in a consult with Valerie and you may find yourself discovering your life purpose.
My background is in facilitating change in groups. It was fascinating, fun, and powerful to take similar steps through this workbook with the focus on my self and my own life. Use the workbook as an amazingly rich resource. Or, open it up and step into the often unexplored territory of your past, your potential, and your future life. It may take your breath away.
fragments of wisdom.......2006-09-25
I do find this book helpful in that there is a lot of information by different authors in it. That being said, it really isn't in a "workbook" type format. If you are looking for a "workbook" to help you work through personal issues, such as interests, fears, doubts, etc. to help you make decisions, this one isn't as "fluid" as some of the other works out there. However, this book can introduce you to some of the personalities of the best of the best motivators out there, and you can then buy one of their sole works that is more "fluid". I probably would have only given it 3 stars, but it is very interesting, and the author has done a very good job of assimilating what she presents.
Finding Your True Calling.......2006-09-19
I have been trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up for many years now, and have gone through several 'traditional' career counseling processes and indeed several 'traditional' careers, but nothing seemed to fit. Finally, I went through Finding Your True Calling by Valerie Young and realized why nothing had fit, that I needed to look beyond the 'traditional' and that I could find a way/ways to make a living that fit with what I want out of life. Going through the exercises, reading the information, and especially reading about the experiences of others who have searched and have found/are finding their callings, has helped me find focus and solidify my resolve. I am now well on my way to living the life I was meant to live.
There are many resources for those who do fit the 'traditional' career mold, but for all of us who think/know there must be more, resources are much harder to find. Finding Your True Calling provides just such a resource, and I am truly thankful I found it. If you think/know there is something more, that life has more to offer, you owe it to yourself to go through Finding Your True Calling.
Action Plan for New Life and Work Options.......2006-07-04
After many years, many tests, and many registration fees to obtain my Professinal License, I found myself in a great job that I just hated. I did not "fit" into their social culture and I found my brain just worked differently than others in my Profession. What to do? I had reached the big 50 age bracket and was feeling despondent over making any kind of a job change. After all, I had invested a great deal of time and effort into this career. Was it time to quit or to work part-time?
Keeping an open mind, I started reading Valerie Young's book. This book offers wise advice and the contributions of several experts in the field, but it was the worksheets that made the difference. Once I opened up the wordprocessor, followed her directives and poured my heart out into black & white text, well, it all made sense. I was able to analyze and understand myself, from the child through adult, including my dreams, creativity and rewarding experiences. Valerie has provided a forum to allow you to quiet the beast of negative voices in your head and to design the next phase of your life. Be sure to do the worksheets! Thank you, Valerie, for the tools that inspire me into my next phase of life. I now have a clear insight into how to phase-out of my full-time profession and to phase-into work that is more suited to my natural talents.
Book Description
This elementary Latin course for 7-10 year olds combines a basic introduction to the Latin language with material on the history and culture of Roman Britain. Highly illustrated, the book contains a mixture of stories and myths, grammar explanations and exercises, and background cultural information. Pupils are drawn into the material as they read about the lives of a family living in a community at Vindolanda; the adventures of the children and the family cat and mouse provide interest throughout. As well as offering a lively introduction to Latin and classical studies, Minimus also has cross-curricular relevance. The material on the community at Vindolanda can be used to supplement studies of the Romans at KS2. The grammatical content helps to develop language awareness, and provides a solid foundation from which learners can progress to further English or foreign language studies. The Teacher's Resource Book provides support, particularly for non-Classicists. It includes teaching guidelines, English translations of the Latin passages, and additional background information, plus photocopiable worksheets.
Customer Reviews:
Pricey, but worth it.......2007-08-25
As far as the price goes-- it is expensive, but the author clearly spent a lot of time on this resource-- once I examined it closely, I was very glad I got it.
That said--- the resource book is essential for instructors who do not know Latin, but also very useful for those who do. I studied Latin in college and have taught it for many years... I STILL found the teacher's guide worthwile. It includes cultural information, great ideas for activities, and pages that can be reproduced. There are so many possibilities, Minimus can actually serve as a supplement to Story of the World or other history curricula.
If you are homeschooling and feel the teacher's manual is not cost-effective since you will only be reproducing the pages for one or two students, think about the cost of a private Latin tutor-- compare the tutor's hourly rate of $40-$100 (in major metropolitan areas) to the cost of the teacher's edition.
I highly recommend the Minimus resource book both for teachers with no Latin experience and those with Latin experience. I have found it extremely helpful and useful even though I am proficient in Latin and have extensive teaching experience.
Worth the Price.......2007-04-07
I just purchased this with the student's work book and pronunciation CD. Just like others have mentioned, the price is steep but it does complete the lessons and make it possible for the 12 chapters to cover a full school year's worth of lessons.
There is a lot more in the book than the answers. There is background info, ideas for art projects, discussion topics, language arts exercises and worksheets too. It is printed on nice heavy stock and the spiral binding makes it easy to photocopy the worksheets.
All in all, I am glad I purchased it.
Minimus Teacher's Resource Book: Starting out in Latin (Cambridge Latin Texts).......2006-11-06
This book is filled with additional words, activities, and a glossary that will surely help first-time Latin homeschool teaching moms like myself. However, I do wish the chapter resources/reprintables were geared a little more toward academic activities. The biggest drawback to the teacher edition is that it doesn't print the Latin version of the chapter stories found in the student book. The English translations are great, but for those of us who are new to Latin, having both versions side by side, would be helpful. This being said, I do not regret purchasing it...I would be lost without it!
Good Worksheets, Pricey.......2006-06-03
I am running through Minimus at home with my 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grader. It seems to be going pretty well. The kids are in a parochial school, so we do this as extra homework on our own (I am not a traditional home school parent). The teacher's manual helps out with the worksheets that I can copy at the end of the lesson. The worksheets are very helpful. On the down side, the book is a bit pricey for me, as I only need three copies of the worksheets, and I think I would like to see a little more guidance on how to use the worksheets in conjunction with the student manual.
Excellent book - really expensive though.......2006-03-27
The teacher's book is so good and every part of it is of use. Yes, it is thin and it's expensive but the small amount that is there is just so good. There are wonderful explanations and background information and the photocopiable pages are useful and not "busy work" in any way.
Customer Reviews:
Good Condition.......2007-09-27
This book was sent in a timely matter and was in the condition I expected it to be in.
Review for Doing Economics.......2006-11-16
Its a great tool for Economic majors as it helps with research and presentations.
Book Description
Political Science/Critical Theory
An essential reevaluation of the proper role of politics in contemporary life. A critical rethinking of the categories of politics within a new sociopolitical and historical context, this book builds on the previous work of the distinguished political philosopher Giorgio Agamben to address the status and nature of politics itself. Bringing politics face-to-face with its own failures of consciousness and consequence, Agamben frames his analysis in terms of clear contemporary relevance. He proposes, in his characteristically allusive and intriguing way, a politics of gesture-a politics of means without end.
Among the topics Agamben takes up are the "properly" political paradigms of experience, as well as those generally not viewed as political. He begins by elaborating work on biopower begun by Foucault, returning the natural life of humans to the center of the polis and considering it as the very basis for politics. He then considers subjects such as the state of exception (the temporary suspension of the juridical order); the concentration camp (a zone of indifference between public and private and, at the same time, the secret matrix of the political space in which we live); the refugee, who, breaking the bond between the human and the citizen, moves from marginal status to the center of the crisis of the modern nation-state; and the sphere of pure means or gestures (those gestures that, remaining nothing more than means, liberate themselves from any relation to ends) as the proper sphere of politics. Attentive to the urgent demands of the political moment, as well as to the bankruptcy of political discourse, Agamben's work brings politics back to life, and life back to politics.
Giorgio Agamben teaches philosophy at the Collge International de Philosophie in Paris and at the University of Macerata in Italy. He is the author of Language and Death (1991), Stanzas (1992), and The Coming Community (1993), all published by the University of Minnesota Press.
Vincenzo Binetti is assistant professor of Romance languages and literature at the University of Michigan. Cesare Casarino teaches in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota.
Theory Out of Bounds Series, volume 20
Translation Inquiries: University of Minnesota Press
Customer Reviews:
on the way to..........2006-11-26
This collection of occasional pieces from the nineteen-nineties can seem slight and derivative by comparison to Agamben's major works of the same decade, coming on the heels of Homo sacer, The Coming Community, The Man Without Content, and The Remaining Time. Means without ends is supercilious about dance, and shows unexpected pietism in the hope for rights "Beyond Human Rights": how meaningful are rights without the conjunction of law and enforcement, i.e. something resembling the state? And there's a puzzling reference to "Beckett's Traum und Nacht" (p. 55). But Means without ends also contains some pearls close to the persistent heart of Giorgio Agamben's uniquely disquieting train of thought: how is it possible to think politics today, in the wake of the Holocaust on the one hand, imposing the heritage of extermination camps that incorporate the state of exception as the essential model of state sovereignty? Agamben's bracing paradoxicalization of politics remains incisively challenging in the "Marginal Notes" on Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle, in the dialogue on "The Face" (whose unidentified interlocutor is presumably Emmanuel Levinas), and in the deeply personal reflections on contemporary politics, especially in Italy. Curiously, the initial words of a passage repeated word-for-word on pages 81 & 95 suggests the absent totalization, and perhaps the subtitle of a major new Agamben in the offing: "an integrated Marxian analysis..."
Book Description
All over the country, kids are picking up knitting needles and wildly colorful yarns to make really cool clothes and other fabulous stuff--from cozy chenille scarves to snuggly shawls, funky rag bags to furry tank tops, whimsical brimmed hats to classy cardigans. Whether on their own or together with friends in after-school clubs, recreation centers, or even yarn shops, these kids are discovering that knitting is more than learning basic stitches and following pattern directions.
Knitting is a way to get exactly what they want to own, and it is also a fun way to relax and hang out, a way to surprise a friend with a handmade sweet sixteen present, a way to discover the creative "me" in themselves.
Teen Knitting Club shows them how they can do it all--from learning the basics to forming knitting clubs of their own. Firsthand stories and tips from scores of teens both advise and encourage teens, while lively four-color photographs of their handiwork show what can be done with just a little practice.
Cool kids everywhere will be saying, "Move over, Grandma," and joining in this creative and rewarding pastime.
Customer Reviews:
cute book.......2007-01-05
I bought this for my 12 year old niece. I honestly didn't know what to rate it because I didn't read through it extensively, but it did have lots of cute patterns. I noticed that there was a section too for shorter projects, great for long trips, etc. There was also a section about starting your own knitting club.
THE intro knitting book to own!.......2007-01-04
I teach a lot of kids and adults to knit and this is the first book I have found that has it all: clear, accurate how-to information; patterns for things you will actually WEAR after you knit them; well-designed format which makes the book easy to navigate. My favorite section is a list of the top 10 most common knitting mistakes and how to repair them. The only criticism I have of this book is the title. I recommend this book for every novice knitter, from eight years of age on up.
Great Basics.......2006-11-09
I liked this book, out of a lot of beginning knitting books, because it shows guys as well as girls knitting. And the hat patterns are the best. Simple, clear instructions, and directions on how to substitute yarns. I agree with the earlier poster about the lack of extended sizing but I don't think that the sweaters are the strength of this book - it's the hats and scarves!
One Of the Best!.......2006-06-20
I love this book! Unlike all the other knitting books I've read, this one doesn't claim to be easy, it actally is! I've never made a hat before because it's been too intimadating, but this book really simplafies all things. I believe it's good for beginers, but might be a little boaring for kniters who have been knitting for a long time.
You don't have to be a teen..........2006-02-17
This book is Great! It is easy to read and understand. It has some simple but trendy patterns, too. All the basics of knitting wrapped up in easy to use instructions. You don't have to be a teen to use it. I bought it for my granddaughter but am using myself, too.
Jacki Sutherland
Customer Reviews:
The Coming Community in Context.......2007-07-04
The Coming Community by the Italian thinker Agamben, translated by Michael Hardt, is an indispensible work for anyone who is interested in a renewed thinking of a political community without identity.
The Coming Community does not refer to a community that will arrive one day in a fixed form. Such an arrival would only indicate that it is not the community that we are talking about. Rather, it is a community which lacks precisely this fixed identity, and which beings must learn to belong to.
This can be seen as a singular attempt at a renewed thinking of community against the background of Jean-Luc Nancy's work in Inoperative Community and Blanchot's Unavowable Community. Also, the work can be read in the context of Derrida's work on "the democracy-to-come".
The indetermination of limit..........2005-07-22
Giorgio Agamben's The Coming Community is a quiet and beautifully written confrontation of thinking, an opening onto potentia that the careful reader (as such) will raise heart, head, and hand to meet irreparably. The small book bears its own halo, the words guilty yet of my own inactuality. The world such as, "here I am!"
Gateway.......1999-01-24
Less an argument and more a constellation or mosaic of insights, formulas, and enigmas, The Coming Community by Giorgio Agamben is both a courageous delineation of political crisis and an intervention in thought that is both beautiful and cheerfully destructive. That is, this mosaic (inspired, I think, more by the early Heidegger of Sein und Zeit and also Walter Benjamin's Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels) saves, without naming, the potential for the uprecedented that comes out of the delineation of the astonishing: the 'whatever' which "always matters" but which is in no wise the result of a process of any kind. Composed of twenty-nine brief, dense, suggestive sections, this book opens a gateway out of the space of nihilism that currently enthralls the planet in the form of the Debordian Spectacle. The example of Tianenmen is intended to evoke a scintillating, lawless time--blasted out of history--when everything mattered exactly such as it is. Since Benjamin, no thinker has more clearly entered into the threshold of complicity that thought and politics share.
Obscuratist.......1998-08-11
Agamben's book Infancy and History was a superb book, and I was looking forward to reading this book. The book should be twice as big, as seemingly every other sentence calls for further elaboration. To be sure, it is esay to undersatnd that Agamben's language is inspired by the later Heidegger's unfolding of language, particularly through etymology. The grounding of the book is an elaboration of the word "whatever" (qualunque), and perhaps this was more understandable in the original Italian, the point being, for Agamben, that 'being' is not a case of "whatever being" such that it does not matter which, but "such that it always matters". This then becomes his base for human ethics. Fair enough. But who needs the exposition of "whatever" in order to argue for an ethics of understanding? His ultimate argument is that the coming community will not be one of control of the State in politrical terms, but rather a struggle between the State and the non-State. He gives the example of the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, whom, Agamben argues, did not demonstate for concrete demands, or rather, that "democracy and freedom are notions too generic and broadly defined to constitute the real object of a conflict". This is incredible! Agamben is more familiar with Italian farmers demanding foreign goods be stopped at the borders. My feeling by the end of the book, was that Agamben's Coming Community would be a community of Intellectuals who a few times a year march for people who are no longer a community, the disposessed, (whom, despite their efforts of solidarity with each other's plight, remain ultimately marginal) but after the demonstration the intellectuals return to their comfortable university-paid jobs. This book left me feeling angry.
Book Description
Why would a political theorist venture into the nexus between neuroscience and film? According to William Connolly-whose new book is itself an eloquent answer-the combination exposes the ubiquitous role that technique plays in thinking, ethics, and politics. By taking up recent research in neuroscience to explore the way brain activity is influenced by cultural conditions and stimuli such as film technique, Connolly is able to fashion a new perspective on our attempts to negotiate-and thrive-within a deeply pluralized society whose culture and economy continue to quicken.
In Neuropolitics Connolly draws upon recent brain/body research to explore the creative potential of thinking, the layered character of culture, the cultivation of ethical sensibilities, and the critical role of technique in all three. He then shows how a series of films-including Vertigo, Five Easy Pieces, and Citizen Kane-enhances our appreciation of technique and contests the linear image of time now prevalent in cultural theory.
Connolly deftly brings these themes together to support an ethos of deep pluralism within the democratic state and a politics of citizen activism across states. His book is an original and rigorous study that attends to the creative possibilities of thinking in identity, culture, and ethics.
Customer Reviews:
Great Book.......2005-06-08
I read most of the text recently and have to say it is one of the finest I have come across in recent years. From the Delezians I am familiar with in the States, I would rank Connolly highest along with Brian Massumi. Unlike a number of their colleagues, they do not simply reiterate familiar themes, but make genuine contributions to the field. And very much like Massumi (whose famous essay on affect he cited very favorably a few times), Connolly too works at the intersection of Delezian and Deleuze-inspired philosophy (Guattari figures prominently too, even though in this text he is hardly ever mentioned - my only minor objection) and contemporary cognitive science, in addition to providing fine-tuned analysis of some classical movies using Deleuze and Bergson.
It is a very fine text in political thought,provided one accepts a necessarily extended definition of the term tapping into a number of 'non-political' scientific disciplines. It might be a bit hard to read for the beginner, yet theoretical precision and fascinating intellectual depth are some of the major rewards. In terms of my own academic (as well as non-academic) interests, this has been one of the luckiest hits I have had in recent years (after dropping Lacan and Zizek upon coming across Anti-Oedipus and Guattari). A great read and a lovely book.
Product Description
Shrinky Dinks is amazing shrinkable plastic. Draw or trace a design on it, color it, cut it out with ordinary scissors, bake it for mere minutes on a cookie sheet in your oven and, presto, your creation shrinks to 44% of its original size. You get six she
Customer Reviews:
Great starter!.......2007-08-26
This one comes with, I think, 8 sheets of the plastic and all kinds of really cute pictures already done the right size to shrink to a perfect size....whatever you are going to make. :) The photos are colored to give you coloring ideas. Kids love doing shrinky dinks! I bought this to let the girls at my daughters 6th birthday make some keepsake creations. All kinds of ideas in this book too!
A New Take on Shrinky Dinks.......2007-06-16
I remember Shrinky Dinks as a kid, it has changed a bit, in that you can either use some ideas from the book or create your own. This is a ton of fun and makes a great gift.
Keep in mind that an adult does need to assist with the placement in and out of the oven.
I highly recommend this book.
A great gift.......2006-12-27
This is a great gift book for children and anyone who's never used Shrinky dink plastic before. It gives all sorts of cute picture ideas to follow.
If you already know about shrinky dinks and don't need any ideas, then the refill pack will be sufficient.
it's a'ight but not great.......2006-06-11
the projects are kind of boring, i mean it's stuff that anyone could really think of. i guess i was hoping for more of the fun cute creativity i come to expect from klutz. i'm disappointed in this book's lack of creativity and ingenuity. there's nothing here i couldn't have figured out for myself. the craft ideas are, turn a shrinky dink into a magnet by sticking a magnet on the back, turn it into a pin by sticking a pin onto the back, turn it into a necklace by punching a hole and putting a finding on it.. stuff like that. they don't take it to the next level like klutz normally does and do that little extra something cool with it, that little extra something that makes the book worth buying. there are maybe 3 really unique ideas, but that's about it. and don't use the argument that it's for kids what should i expect -- i've been a fan of klutz books since i was about 10 and the universal adult/child appeal is what makes them so wonderful. this one comes up short. i'm not going to be buying anymore sheri haab books from klutz.
A Great Gift.......2006-03-27
This is the perfect introduction to the "craft" of shrinky-dinks. All of the materials your child needs to complete the project are included, the instructions are clear and the project is fun. It is the perfect gift for your child or another; a great rainy day activity to have on hand.
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- Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology
- A Field Guide to Southwestern and Texas Wildflowers
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52 Projects: Random Acts of Everyday Creativity (Perigee Book)
Wreck This Journal
How to Make a Journal of Your Life
The Guerilla Art Kit
CREATIVE LICENSE, THE: GIVING YOURSELF PERMISSION TO BE THE ARTIST YOU TRULY ARE
