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Craft with Cardboard: A Kid's Guide to Constructing a Miniature City

by Tiffanie Pichon

Build a city from recycled materials

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Build a city from recycled materials

Tiffanie Pichon’s project guide turns cardboard and everyday craft supplies into the pieces of a miniature city. Step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs support projects ranging from houses, shops, towers, and factories to people, animals, vehicles, parks, and trees. The collection also encourages young makers to notice the architecture, streets, and daily activity around them, then use those observations as ideas for their constructions. Individual builds can join into a neighborhood, with rural towns and farms suggested as possibilities for further projects. Cardboard, egg cartons, paper, and other recycled or natural materials provide the starting point, alongside basic tools such as scissors, tape or glue, and coloring supplies.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Children ages 4–8 interested in hands-on crafts and building projects.
  • Young crafters who enjoy making miniature buildings, vehicles, people, and landscapes.
  • Families or educators seeking projects that use cardboard and other recycled materials.

Themes

Cardboard constructionRecycled-material craftsArchitecture and communitiesObservation and creativity

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Book overview

Put yourself in the shoes of a real architect and create your very own city out of cardboard!

In this guided collection, young crafters and artists will find step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs that will aid them in creating a whole city (people and vehicles included!) out of cardboard.

Author and artist Tiffanie Pichon opens with encouraging words that will inspire crafters to pay closer attention to their surroundings as they move through their city or town. The architecture--from roof to window--the sidewalks, parks, and even the jobs people are doing while they walk or drive through a city may inspire their creations as they construct their very own city out of recycled materials, like cardboard.

The projects featured throughout this fully illustrated book will come together to create a neighborhood, but may also inspire future projects such as DIY rural towns and farms. Types of creations include houses and stores, towers and skyscrapers, factories, people and animals, vehicles, mountains, trees, benches, and more--all requiring the most basic supplies (tape or glue, scissors, paints or markers, rulers, colored paper, egg cartons, etc.) and whatever recycled or natural materials the crafter wants to use!
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