Hobby Fun Book: For Grade School Boys and Girls

By Margaret O. Hyde and Frances W. Keene

Baby Boomers wishing to share some of childhood's simple joys with their children and grandchildren will relish this book of easy home-based activities. Focusing on creativity rather than collecting, these engaging hobbies involve pets, papercrafts, painting, modeling, chemistry, and electricity. They require only common materials and can help foster a rewarding lifetime interest in art- and science-based pastimes. Hobbies include making a woodland or swamp terrarium; growing plants from seeds, stems, and roots; building a model sailboat or outrigger; and constructing a parachute or boomerang. Other activities range from building model villages and dioramas to making a magnet or compass and growing crystals. Helpful diagrams and other drawings appear throughout the book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486478394
• ISBN13: 9780486478395
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 7 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 6