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Hands-on Africa features:
- 40 projects
- Gorgeous full-color photography, with
rich artifacts and fabrics in many backgrounds
- Cultural information, including an introduction to African art and architecture
- Maps and cultural overviews of the various regions of Africa
- An introduction to a dozen African tribes |
Learn about the fascinating cultures of this vast continent as you complete
the projects in Hands-on Africa! Sample projects
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Slotted
Animals
Here are eleven wonderful African animals that you can make. Color
the copied animal parts with patterns of stripes and dots, then cut-out
the forms and slot them together. Do some research and make
up some African animals patterns of your own! We could never have
included all ofAfrica's amazing animals. |
| Cameroon
Beadwork
Decorative beaded caps and chief hats with a frontal face are popular
in all of Africa, but originated in this region. Elaborate bead work
on clothing, and decorative objects (such as this giant lizard) are
effectively replicated in paper. When you design your colorful hat, notice
the bright primary and secondary colors. Your art piece will be beautiful
enough to wear and show off. |
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African Fabrics
As early as 3000 BC, handsome African fabrics were
made. Mali is famous for its mud cloth and the Ashanti
in Ghana made the Adkinkra cloth. All use a resist technique,
which means you paint a paste on for the design and then
paint your color over it. Then you wash it all out and
see the beautiful results. You will use your imagination,
design skills, color sense and spatial planning to make
these unique African fabrics, which you can wear. |
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Chains
Easy and inexpensive to make, these paper chains can be cut to border
bulletin boards, for an African holiday tree, to use as ideas for
wrapping paper, etc. All feature authentic African motifs. |
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