Book of Artrageous Projects

Book Description
This amazing collaboration with the venerable Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, comes with all the supplies needed for a hands-on artistic experience, like copper-colored foil, light sensitive paper, color pigments and a paint brush. It's guaranteed to put you in an art-doing mood.


From the Publisher
Winner of Canadian Toy Testing Council Children's Choice Award, DiscoverySchool.com Award of Excellence, Lion & Lamb Project Top 20 Toy of the Year, National Parenting Publications Honors Award, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award, Parents' Choice Gold Award, Parent's Guide Children's Media Award


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Are you in need of a gift book for the young person you suspect is creative but needs a little push? Try this funfilled, object d'art and see a smile light up their persona. The authors actually expect the reader to cut, paste, rip, paint and copy in this book. The hours of fun provided here are endless, and some really great projects will be completed. A packet of art supplies attached to the cover and various useable pages inside the book will help budding artists create several art forms. Favorites include the "sun sensitive paper," "build your own copper book," and the "museum quality excuse for not having your homework done." The latter will surely bring a smile to the hardest-hearted teacher. The underlying artwork used as examples represents famous works on display in museums around the world. The reader will achieve a basic sense of the techniques used to create these lovely objects. 2000, Klutz/The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ages 8 up. Reviewer: Barbara Youngblood


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