Provides step-by-step instructions for various sports-themed projects, including baseball fans, team spirit pennants, golf business card holders, and personalized sports water bottles.

Contains suggestions for handicrafts involving the making of art objects characteristic of different countries and historical periods.

Teaches kids how to make a variety of animal crafts.

Presents instructions for creating crafts related to mathematics, including an equilateral triangle picture fram, a dreamcatcher clock, and a roman numeral secret message.

Children will be able to start their own band after they create these ten musical instruments for next to nothing.

Students can show their love for their favorite teams by following simple step-by-step directions to create ten sports-themed crafts, including a pennant, personalized water bottle, and scrapbook. Not just for spectators, these projects also allow readers to participate by teaching them to put together a bowling game from empty soda bottles, a jump rope from rubber bands, and a nineteenth-century game of graces from pencils and a plastic coffee lid. This book also includes patterns that are easy to reproduce using a copier or printer and a Learn More section with current books and websites.

A valuable, one-stop guide to collection development and finding ideal subject-specific activities and projects for children and teens. For busy librarians and educators, finding instructions for projects, activities, sports, and games that children and teens will find interesting is a constant challenge. This guide is a time-saving, one-stop resource for locating this type of information—one that also serves as a valuable collection development tool that identifies the best among thousands of choices, and can be used for program planning, reference and readers' advisory, and curriculum support. Build It, Make It, Do It, Play It! identifies hundreds of books that provide step-by-step instructions for creating arts and crafts, building objects, finding ways to help the disadvantaged, or engaging in other activities ranging from gardening to playing games and sports. Organized by broad subject areas—arts and crafts, recreation and sports (including indoor activities and games), and so forth—the entries are further logically organized by specific subject, ensuring quick and easy use.