What Can You Do with a Paper Bag?: Hats, Wigs, Masks, Crowns, Helmets and Headdresses Inspired by Worrks of Art from Metropolitan Museum of Art

By Metropolitan Museum of Art and Judith Cressy

Book Overview

With a little imagination, the answer is "plenty " Armed with scissors, tape, and glue, it's easy to turn an ordinary paper bag into an extraordinary hat, wig, mask or crown. Simple step-by-step instructions show readers how to make a golden crown, a curly Baroque wig, Perseus's winged helmet, a pharaoh's headdress, George Washington's wig, a Japanese geisha hairdo, an African mask and sixteen other imaginative designs. An engaging activity book for both home and classroom, What Can You Do with a Paper Bag? , inspired by works of art from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will provide hours of educational and entertaining dress-up fun.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811832201
• ISBN13: 9780811832205
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.5" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 12 years and under
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 7

Customer Reviews

art linked with education

Great book. It is sometimes hard to find books that relate to art and history. I love this book in the class and at home with my own children.

Children Create Ingenius Crafts From Humble Supplies

This is the best book for a rainy afternoon and a bored child (children)!"What Can You Do With A Paper Bag" written by Judith Cressy and published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has 21 paper bag projects geared to fascinate your child and encourage creativity and imagination. Step-by-step instructions, very easy to follow, illustrate how to make Mayan masks, a Pharoah's headdress, crowns, a Fang (African) mask, a "Perseus Winged Helmut," George Washington's hair, and many other clever ideas. All you need are paper bags, (grocery store brown bags are good), scissors, glue, tape, crayons or paints, and an eager child. The humblest of supplies can provide hours of fun. **A side note - The book was inspired by works of art from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It can also be used as a teaching tool for showing children the art of different cultures at different periods in time. Excellent and highly recommended! JANA

What Can You Do With a Paper Bag?

This book, published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, is a TERRIFIC book if you are interested in childrens' crafts and art. The book provides very detailed and easy-to-follow instructions on hat and mask making using your average grocery store variety paper bag (and a few other on-hand items). The hats and masks are all inspired by works of art found in the museum. Our elementary school are using these activities at our Spring Arts Festival. The results are dynamic and the costs for matierials is little to nothing.