> Where can you find the things to fill your craft box? Why, all around > you! But before you take anything, be sure to ask if you may have it. > > Start your make-and-do collecting adventure at...
Toys, Crafts, and Make-Believe
Let's begin with a craft box! A craft box is like a magic box. You put in a lot of junk and ordinary things. Then you add the magic ingredients --- a little glue, some paint, a piece of string, your...
Make and Do
This book provides instructions, with pictures, for more than 300 how-to-do-it projects and activities, including games, stunts, tricks, making costumes and gifts, and such crafts as painting, weaving, and working with clay.
WHAT A WALL!
In China, there is a wall that twists and turns like a dragon as it goes over moun- tains and across valleys. It is about as high as a three-story building. And it goes on and on, for nearly 4,000...
NO CARS ALLOWED
There's an island in the United States between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan that's still in the horse and buggy days. The most important traffic law on Mackinac Island is People travel by horse or...
THE EIFFEL OF PARIS
Do you know where you can get an "eyeful" of Paris? From the top of the Eiffel Tower, of course. But the name and the view only sound alike. The Eiffel Tower is named for Alexandre Eiffel, a great...
THE HOUSE THAT ALEX BUILT
One clay, a man named Alex Jordan was wandering around a hilly countryside in Wisconsin, when he saw a huge rock. It was as tall as a thirty-story skyscraper, and it was shaped like a giant chimney....
AND THE WALLS CAME TUMBLIN’ DOWN
This drawing shows priests carrying the sacred Ark of the Covenant while the walls of Jericho fall. The Bible tells the story of a great battle in which Joshua, a leader of the Jews, made his...
THE FALLING TOWER
You can see a bell tower that leans in the town of Pisa, Italy. What does it lean against? Nothing. It's called the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and it's been leaning more and more ever since it was built...
QUEER, QUAINT, AND CURIOUS PLACES
Would you like to visit places that are really different---places where you can see a tower that tips, or the oldest city in the world, or the world\'s longest front porch? The next few pages will...