Research Catalog

Title

An artist you don't have to be! : a Jewish arts and crafts book / written and illustrated by Joann Magnus with Howard I. Bogot.

Author

Magnus, Joann.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : UAHC Press, c1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bogot, Howard.

Description

xii, 110 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

• This is an arts and crafts activity book that provides creative ideas for projects on different Jewish themes including the Bible, holidays, family, Israel, prayer, the Jewish life cycle, etc. it opens with an introduction that acts as a.
• Guide for teachers and parents who are considering which project to use with their children and how to plan and carry out these projects most effectively.

Subject

• Jewish crafts
• Judaism > Customs and practices

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Bible: Moses umbrella puppet -- "And then there was light" interpretive collage -- Twelve Hebrew tribes "stained glass" pictures / windows -- Noah's ark with cookie puppets -- You are there! Famous movements in history -- Chanukah: Paper puppets -- "Rubbings" gift wrap paper -- "Stained glass" cookie mobile -- Dreidels -- Microtopography picture -- Family: Cup people name settings for Shabbat, Passover, or Shavuot -- The Making of a family Torah -- Art foil mezuzah -- Dor L'Dor generational collage -- Hebrew: Replica of an ancient clay name stamp -- Paint-on-wax Hebrew letters (wax-resist) -- Ceramic Hebrew / English name door plaque -- Calligraphy in the style of Michel Schwartz -- History: Jewish Historic Cup people -- Hall of fame -- Israel: Israeli map cookie -- Flag of Israel -- Snow (Sheleg) pictures -- Waving an Israeli flag in honor of Yom Ha'atzma'ut -- Israeli desert sand painting -- Multi-image picture of Israel in the style of Yaacov Agam -- Lag Ba'omer kite --^
• Experiencing the aging process -- Bar / Bat Mitzvah photo collage -- Marriage mobile -- Mezuzah growth chart -- "Batik" Chupah cover -- Stenciled T-shirts with number thirteen -- Keriah wall hanging -- Marriage dream picture in the style of Marc Chagall -- Passover: A Springtime wax paper mobile -- Afikoman bag -- Family Seder scene -- International Charoset plate -- Matzah magnets -- People of Israel: Am Yisrael jigsaw puzzle -- Clothespin Am Yisrael doll display -- Prayer: Yotzer, a prayer of light and darkness -- Purim: Puzzle -- ShalachManot baskets -- Stationery -- greetings for Soviet Jews -- Your own Purim Megillah (scroll) -- Paper-strip Purim mask -- Purim plaster of Paris mask -- Shushan marble game -- Rosh Hashanah: Card -- Melted wax greeting cards -- "Talking" greeting card -- Dried apple face doll -- Apples and honey family plate -- Shabbat: Texture box -- Braided beeswax Havdalah candle -- Poland paper cuts -- Place mat -- Napkin rings with a Shabbat twist --^
• Eruv for Shalom -- Shabbat in the style of Shalom of Safed -- Shavuot: Omer magnets -- Simchat Torah: Hammered copper or silver Torah breastplate -- Sukot: Stretched paper decorations for the Sukah -- Ushpizin (Guests) for the Sukah -- Pointillist still life in the style of Georges Seurat -- Synagogue: Replica of a wooden European synagogue -- Ner Tamid of punched metal -- Tishah Be'av: Tishah Be'av memorial book -- Rebuilt Western wall -- Tu bishvat: Tree treats collage -- Straw-blown tree -- Tree branch weaving -- Planter with parsley -- Values: Tzedakah support stabile -- Shalom (peace) plaster balloons -- Chesed (Lovingkindness) woven collage -- Oversize bib -- Sefer (book) savers: Two bookmarks -- Talmud Torah Keneged Kulam representational stabile -- Mizrach means East -- Tzedakah coin can (Pushka) -- Microtopography picture -- Coin purse / comb case for around the waist -- Decorated Tzedakah shopping bag for food collection -- Yom Hashoah magazine collage --^
• Kristallnacht, "Night of Broken Glass", collage of broken glass -- Yom Kippur Book of Life (Sefer Hachayim) -- Glossary -- Technical assistance -- Patterns / Stencils.

ISBN

0807404225

LCCN

^^^90011023^

OCLC

• 21560714
• SCSB-11191792

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library