A review by coldinaugust
Natures Art Box: From T-Shirts to Twig Baskets, 65 Cool Projects for Crafty Kids to Make with Natural Materials You Can Find Anywhere by Laura C. Martin

2.0

Vectors wildly between "Hey, this is pretty cool! I wish I'd learned about this when I was a kid" and "Man, some of these are really shitty". Stuff on the cool side include art skills of making your own clay, both from clay soil and a salt dough clay recipe; dyeing fabric using flowers, leaves, and even a mordant (setting agent) recipe; a chess set with land (twig, bark, etc) pieces and sea (shell, driftwood, etc.) pieces; hammering flowers/leaves onto paper or fabric. I think the fairy houses, furniture, and dolls would also be fun to make if I were/had a kid. Other projects were appropriative and/or dumb: make a totem pole or an "amulet" bag or an "African" design (there's a lot of designs to choose from there, because it's an ENTIRE CONTINENT) or a project that literally involves just hot gluing moss & shit to an already-made basket. And who doesn't want a necklace made of cantaloupe seeds? Read for the "Art Skills" section and skim the rest.