Arts and Crafts with Children

Andrew Wright

Primary Resource Books for Teachers

Art, craft, and design activities offer children an excellent way to learn language while developing creative skills and an awareness of the world around them.

Andrew Wright

Art and Crafts with Children

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank:

Julia Sallabank and Alan Maley for their sensitive and thoughtful guidance in the planning and writing of this book.

The teachers and children who have tried out the activities in this book, and helped me to improve them.

Livia Farago for sharing her ideas.

My wife, Julia, for her support and professional sharing.

My children, Timea and Alexandra, for their ideas, and for their constant willingness to try out my ideas.

Line illustrations by Andrew Wright В© Oxford University Press.

The publisher would like to thank the following for their permission to reproduce photographs:

The Bridgeman Art Library pages 11 (Rembrandt self portrait/Mauritshuis, The Hague), 56 (Facsimile of Codex Atlanticus/Private Collection).

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To Timea and Alexandra Wright

The author and series editor

Andrew Wright was a student at the Slade School of Fine Art, the premier postgraduate art school in Britain. He has continued to paint, draw, and illustrate his own books. At the same time, he has continued to work with children – both his own, and those he meets in schools, drawing, designing, making books, and producing s