The Whirligig Maker's Book

Author: Jack Wiley
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781508837206
Category : Whirligigs
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
THE WHIRLIGIG MAKER'S BOOK covers everything you need to know to get started in the craft and hobby of making animated whirligigs. Materials, tools, and techniques are detailed and full-size patterns and step-by-step instructions and illustrations are given for making fifteen unique animated whirligigs: Dove; Folk Rooster; Flying Unicorn; Girl Gymnast; Penguins on Teeter-Totter; Dancing Man; Unicycling Roadrunner; Carousel; Kids on Teeter-Totter; Trampoline; Ferris Wheel; Unicyclist; Flying Duck; Acrobats; and Clown. The projects were selected to introduce you to whirligig making and then take you on to an advanced skill level. The Author Jack Wiley earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1968, did exercise physiology teaching and research, and has written fifty published books. Dr. Wiley first became interested in making whirligigs in the late 1980s, and has designed and built hundreds of them since then. THE WHIRLIGIG MAKER'S BOOK is the result of this interest and experience.

Making Animated Whirligigs

Author: Anders S. Lunde
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486400495
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
More than two dozen traditional and original models of the wind-powered toys known as whirligigs appear in this how-to manual. Easy-to-follow instructions, detailed illustrations.

Whirligig

Author: Paul Fleischman
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1466860324
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111

Book Description
When sixteen-year-old Brent Bishop inadvertently causes the death of a young woman, he is sent on an unusual journey of repentance, building wind toys across the land. In his most ambitious novel to date, Newbery winner Paul Fleischman traces Brent's healing pilgrimage from Washington State to California, Florida, and Maine, and describes the many lives set into new motion by the ingenious creations Brent leaves behind. Paul Fleischman is the master of multivoiced books for younger readers. In Whirligig he has created a novel about hidden connections that is itself a wonder of spinning hearts and grand surprises.

Making Whirligigs, Whimsies, & Folk Toys

Author: Rodney Frost
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 081174499X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
Create unique whirligigs and other moving-part creations, traditional folk toys, and unusual new designs out of wood.

Whirligigs & Weathervanes

Author: David Schoonmaker
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780806983653
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
Patterns and instructions for making over twenty wooden wind gadgets including whirligigs and weathervanes.

Action Whirligigs

Author: Anders S. Lunde
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486133753
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Easy-to-follow instructions and measured drawings for creating 25 charming little wind-driven toys — from the simple Baking a Pie whirligig to the Woman at the Computer to various weathervanes. For all levels of ability.

Whirligigs for Children, Young, and Old

Author: Anders S. Lunde
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780801982330
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description

Easy-to-make Wooden Sundials

Author: Milton Stoneman
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486241416
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 62

Book Description
This guide to making wooden sundials gently leads beginning diallists into sundial lore and construction. Novice craftsmen who can wield a saw, wood-burning pen, matte knife, sandpaper and a few other simple tools can make five different kinds of sundials; plans are flexible and allow for embellishment, alteration, variety of materials. Precalculated templates can be removed from the book and carbon-paper-transferred to wood.

The Spitz Master

Author: Gregory Clark
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367121
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 106

Book Description
Clark examines the book of hours in the context of medieval culture, the book trade in Paris, and the role of Paris as an international center of illumination. 64 illustrations, 40 in color.

Your Alien

Author: Tammi Sauer
Publisher: Union Square Press
ISBN: 9781454950622
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A little boy meets a stranded alien child and the two instantly strike up a fabulous friendship. They go to school, explore the neighborhood, and have lots of fun all day. However, when bedtime rolls around, the little boy must comfort his homesick new friend. This funny, heartwarming story proves that friends and family are the most important things in the universe . . . no matter who or where you are.