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T H E T O Y M A K E R

T H E T O Y M A K E R
Welcome to my odd, little world of paper toys, holiday cards, valentines, sun boxes, baskets and bags, origami and ephemera... all for you to make. My goal is to help grownups and kids spend time together making things. It is my wish to amuse and delight. Enjoy, Click on a flag to translate this website.

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Papertoy Monsters "This book is great for all ages because it doesn’t just let you read it, you can interact with it as well!" Check out the full review of Papertoy Monsters from the UK’s, The Guardian, here! For the American buy link, click here. Order your copy of the Papertoy Monsters 2014 Wall Calendar here! Furry creatures playing with Papertoy Monsters at Comic-Con 2013! Dress up with a monster! Free Stuff! Here are the homeschool materials I create for my children and share with you. I make these for my own children, so they reflect what I want my children to learn…meaning that most of these have Bible elements to them :) Join the Yahoo Group if you want to receive an email from me when I create something new. For instance I created the American Revolution Lapbook back in the summer, but it didn’t make it onto the blog until we did it in February.

Artist Pictured: Eve on the pillar-Sophia in b.g. & the his oil painting Phoenix Arise within Leigh's painted 3D studio library and wonder-study-The Hieroglyph of the Human Soul. On 9-11 when the towers came down Leigh began painting this domestic / creative / mythic space and has over the years continued to work on it constantly. The painted home environment of the Hieroglyph of the Human Soul is a creative epiphany that becomes multidimensional with Chroma Depth 3D glasses. and is unprecedented in art. Take a look.

Royal Baloo free printable packs All printables are provided free of charge, but please read the terms of use! Terms of Use These printables are provided free of charge and are for personal use only. You may: A Stunning, Intricate Maze Made From 2,200 Pounds of Salt Motoi Yamamoto has to be the most patient man in the world. A Japanese artist, Yamamoto uses salt to create monumental floor paintings, each so absurdly detailed, it makes A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte look like child's play. He calls them, fittingly, his Labyrinths. Yamamoto's latest labyrinth creeps out from a brick tunnel at the Fondation Espace Ecureuil, a gallery in France. He made it -- as he makes all these installations -- by sprinkling salt on the floor through a plastic bottle used for machine oil, starting at the back of the tunnel, then moving forward to avoid stepping on the designs he's already drawn. The whole thing took 50 hours over the course of five days and a whopping 2,200 pounds of salt.

123 Homeschool 4 Me As my number of FREE worksheets for kids continues to grow (currently over 650), I want to make sure they are organized so you don’t have to look through every single post to find a particular printable / subject you are looking for. So you can easily search almost 1000 FREE printables below by subject OR by grade. I appreciate you sharing my blog & home school free printables with others, but please do not link to the download only links and read the terms of use carefully as these are all copyrighted materials with all rights reserved. For help downloading files see Download Help.

The Book Surgeon (15 pieces) Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed. Dettmer manipulates the pages and spines to form the shape of his sculptures. He also folds, bends, rolls, and stacks multiple books to create completely original sculptural forms. ONE SHEET OF PAPER We already had a post of Weird Toilet Paper Roll Art, showing Yuken Teruya’s beautiful cutouts of Toilet paper rolls, and now I present another super creative artist, Peter Callesen, who does something similar, but this time out of single A4 paper sheets. “Lately I have worked almost exclusively with white paper in different objects, paper cuts, installations and performances. A large part of my work is made from A4 sheets of paper. It is probably the most common and consumed media used for carrying information today.

Free Homeschool Notebooking pages - Homeschool Helper We add free notebooking pages regularly. Please check back, or sign up for our newsletter to learn about all of our new pages. What is Notebooking? Elementary Lined Notebooking Includes free Alphabet, Science, History, and Holiday elementary lined notebooking pages. Famous People Notebooking Includes free American Presidents, Famous Americans & Europeans, Explorers, Missionaries, Inventors, and Scientists. History & Geography Notebooking Includes free World History, American History, Story of the World, Famous Landmarks, Geography, and Pirates notebooking pages.

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