ISBN: 0-9643177-7-X

Hands-on Africa features:

• 40 projects
• 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 include the following:

Slotted Animals

Here are eleven wonderful African animals that you can make. Color the copied animal pattern 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 of Africa'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.

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.

Paper 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.