Handicraft Illustrated Guide. Practical Encyclopedia Illustrated Series

Author: Katsuhiko Kinouchi
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: Lighting up a handmade wax candle box on Christmas Eve must be very romantic! All you need are tools like scissors, candles, chopsticks, matches, empty cans, and kite string—plus your dexterity, innocence, and a sense of life's joy! This book introduces the use of various tools as a starting point, with eight chapters covering the use of eight tools and 170 methods and play ideas for handmade toys, accompanied by over 6,000 illustrations. The book presents more than 300 handmade projects, including making pinball toys from empty cans, creating rideable boats from milk cartons, crafting mini albums, kites, and mini golf courses. The toys range from simple ones as small as sesame seeds to complex ones like computer games. Regardless of their simplicity, to ensure a certain level of entertainment, some techniques must be applied. If you can make fun toys yourself, isn’t that something truly impressive? This book is a tailor-made guide for those who want to make toys by hand. Those who feel they aren’t skilled in crafts can start with simple toys. For more challenging but highly interesting toys, please wait until you’re a bit more proficient before attempting them. In the process of making each toy, you’ll discover that not only is playing with toys enjoyable, but the act of making them is just as fun. Using orange juice cans to make cars, fish cake boards to create mazes, plastic bags to make kites, and thick cardboard boxes to build houses—these will surely excite you. Because you can make handmade toys according to your own preferences, it adds an extra layer of fun. Additionally, you can try improving the game methods yourself. This book introduces 170 toy-making methods, including both traditional handmade toys and newly created ones. Please read the instructions carefully before leisurely and joyfully crafting the toys. Once you become proficient in using various tools, please be sure to invent a unique handmade toy of your own creation. If this book not only serves as your guide to making toys but also brings you happiness, that will be a great source of comfort and joy.