Amazing Africa Projects You Can Build Yourself

Build it Yourself

by Carla Mooney, Megan Stearns (Illustrator)

While Africa is one continent it contains many diverse countries. Amazing Africa Projects You Can Build
Yourself introduces readers ages 9 and up to the stunning landscapes, ancient civilizations and ethnic groups, unique traditions, and amazing wildlife of the vast African continent.

With 25 fun projects that kids can complete using common household supplies and many recycled materials, kids learn about life in Africa. Step-by-step instructions show young readers how to make their own shields for an initiation ceremony, cook banana fritters and fufu cakes, and design animal masks to commemorate the seasons. Kids will celebrate Africa and its place in our world.

Genres: Africa

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Carla Mooney is an award-winning author of numerous nonfiction STEAM books for kids and teens. She hopes to spark a healthy curiosity and love of nonfiction in youth.

Reviews

[Kathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book with cool projects many of which scare me. Make things with mud? Yikes!
But I really like the projects on fables, dolls and rocks/minerals.
Emerald mine anyone?
I think we will have a blast!

[Chrissy · Rating 5 out of 5]

My Thoughts: My Children and I had fun and learned about Africa reviewing this educational project book. My children had so much fun doing some of the projects in this book that they didn't even realize they were studding about another culture.

There were so much information in this book and 25 really cool projects that the children can make their selves. The children learned so much about Africa with this book and they got to make leopard masks and we did Adinkra stamping as the two projects we picked out to do in this book.

The Adinkra stamping was their favorite. They got to use my potatoes to cut shapes out and with the stamp pad they made all kinds of symbols and shapes. They really had fun with that project.

In my opinion this is a really nice learning and fun tool to learn about Africa. My kids had fun and was able to learn at the same time.

[Deborah Martinez · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book and would highly recommend it to my friends or siblings with kids that are in elementary school. It would be perfect for 3-5 graders but with that being said, if you read this as a family and did the projects as well, younger kids can learn a lot about Africa too!

There was a lot of information, and projects that accompanied the readings, such a making masks, Adinkra stampings, and making beaded bracelets!

I thought this book was great and is a great learning tool while learning about Africa!

[Johana Salazar · Rating 5 out of 5]

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