*Making Things, handbook of creative discovery A new edition, called The Best of Making Things is available from HandprintPress.com or Amazon.com, *Parent's Choice Award*, ISBN 0-316.94756-3 pbk, Book of the Month Club Selection card#75-7789 (There are many editions: the 2006 red edition is available from Hand Print Press, called the Best of Making Things, books 1 and 2. The original 1973 edition and the 1997 blue edition as well as the 1975 book #2 edition are in many libraries and are occasionally available from Amazon's out of print list.) 125 activities and concepts for people of any age who love to make things, paper, looms, puppets, doll houses, mobiles, stained glass cookies, bread sculpture... and many more. "The best book of it's kind I have ever come across... A fascinating compendium with precise and easy-to-read instructions in a format that invites discovery." - Jane Yolen "One of the classic books..." - Boston Globe "Excellent and innovative... helps it's audience become real artisans." - Horn Book

The Body Inside Out, Symbolic Healing and Self Balancing - Ansayre Press, Inc., ISBN 0-937369-02-0

How the method of body mapping helped people deal with problems and issues such as weight problems, self divorcement, alienation, self esteem, loss of organs, transplant organs, etc., and create a better relationship between mind and body, using art therapy, and the inner dialogue.

FINGER PAINTS & PUDDING PRINTS - Addison Wesley (out of print, wz=89876543210) available in libraries and at Amazon.

A 10 cent box of instant chocolate pudding mix gives you enough finger licking finger paint for an art class.

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Sketch-Journals available through mail order:
Ansayre Press 284 Huron Ave Cambridge, MA 02138

 

*Zihuatanejo Sketchbook: My Mexican winter Eight winters in a tropical Mexican fishing village on the edge of the warm Pacific ocean.

 

 

Bly Sketchbook Sketching at Robert Bly's Great Mother Conference

 

Sketching in a Greek Kitchen ISBN 0-937369.03-9 Family stories and delicious Greek recipes by Penolope Gregory with drawings in Greek Kitchens by Ann.

 

Provincetown Sketchbook

Sketching the life and scenes of a charming fishing village and art community at the tip end of Cape Cod.

 

Sketching at the Christmas Revels 

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The following titles are out of print but available in some libraries:

Cuts of Cloth, Simple Things To Sew And Wear - Little Brown (out of print). ISBN 0-316.94853-5, ISBN 0-316.94852.7 pbk Ingenious garments easy to make with no tailoring.

 

 

Rags Rugs and Wool Pictures - Chas. Scribner's Son (out of print). A children's book, how to make the rug hook, design a pattern, and hook a rug or a wall picture from beginning to end.

 

*Bread Sculpture, the Edible Art The pocket edition is available from Ansayre Press at ansayre@aol.com. Many easy ways to make bread and many charming creations to make out of the dough for fun and festivals.

 

Rag Tapestries and Wool Mosaics - Reprinted as Rug Hooking & Rag Tapestries Van Nostrand Reinhold: NYC (out of print) How to make a rug hook out of a ten penny nail and design your own rugs, dye, and cut wood strips, and hook them with hand tools of various kinds. The book is full of design ideas for rugs and tapestries. For adults.

 

 

*Welcome to the World, the birth of kittens - Addison Wesley (out of print). ISBN 0.201.08575-5 Eight year olds explain how Mary and Spot get together and they explain and illustrate the gestation period, and how Mary gives birth to a litter of kittens. Just like you and I were born.

 

Finger Paints & Pudding Prints - Addison Wesley (out of print), wz-89876543210

 

Tony's Flower - Vanguard Press (out of print). A children's book about a little Italian boy who visits a private community in Greenwich Village and gives them his Easter Lilly to plant in thier garden. (Children exchanging life styles.)

 

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Films:

Film: New York New York

25 children create a hooked mural tapestry filmed by the International Film Foundations at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. NYC.