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

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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Crafts

64 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2001

About the author

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, (colloquially, the “Met”) is the largest art museum in the United States.

It was founded on April 13, 1870, "to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular instruction."

Reviews

[Debra Golden · Rating 4 out of 5]

The directions are clear and illustrated examples are well done. I like the photos of the art they relate to along with pictures of the complete projects and templates. Easy to advanced clues you into the skill level. I'll use this for a workshop or two and kids show costumes.

[Rose]

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[Miss Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute craft book using paper-bags as the medium. Each project is labeled easy to advanced, find this feature useful.