Tiny Treasures: Amazing Miniatures You Can Make!

by Geri Strigenz Bourget

Book Overview

This book shows girls how to turn everyday items into dozens of amazing miniatures. Make pies from bottle caps, plates from buttons, a table from balsa wood and golf tees Includes a special feature--a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156247667X
• ISBN13: 9781562476670
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: American Girl Publishing Inc
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 7.1"
• Age Range: 8 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 3 and higher

Customer Reviews

A Real Gem of a Little Book

The name of this book is "Tiny Treasures" and that's just what this book is, a tiny treasure. Tiny because it's, well it's tiny. A treasure, because it has literally occupied hours of my darling's time. Some people think it's easier with two children, others think it's twice the work. I am in the others category, so when I saw how they took to this neat little book after their dad brought it home, I was thrilled.This book will walk your little girl right through dozens of projects. Yes, I must say, you are going to have to help, maybe not when they get older, but I had to help mine make most of the projects and I can't remember having so much fun with my girls. They have learned so many useful things because of this book and we've had dozens up very interesting conversations as I explained about the things we where were making.If you have a girl child somewhere between three and thirty-three, then I believe this is a book for you. It's full of projects a girl and her mom can do together. Not only do my girls love this book, but I do too.Sophie Cacique Gaul

Creative and Fun

This is absolutely the most precious book. All the craft ideas use items that are easy to find. And the projects are not only easy to make, but a lot of fun. Definitely recommended.

A barrel of tiny, tiny monkeys

A savvy friend gave this book to me after discovering that I'd found a Barbie Doll that looked like me (mortifyingly enough, in my mid-twenties). I opened this little hardcover/spiral combo and gasped aloud--exquisite little how-to's on oft-neglected areas of dollhouse fun...a Twister board, a Christmas Tree, flowerpots, wedding cake, croquet, team pennants... Some conceivably Barbie-sized, and many more traditionally dollhouse-sized, like the ballet tableau and the tiny bathtub scene. (There's definitely a scalable quality to the crafts, either way). Best yet, you're not paying $20 a pop in a toy store to have impersonal pink- & -purple logo-labelled uberfeminized fluff. Instead, the book gives you 21 little projects to create with common household/hobby items, and causes you to gaze speculatively at your old tinkertoys, wondering where your glue and paints are. I highly recommend this for a creative doll-oriented child, and the whimsical adult (who knows better, but starts building a Barbie condo on the pantry shelves).

An unbelievable book!

It's just amazing what a child can make using these instructions. Two important points, though: The items are very intricate, so it's definitely not for every child; only for one who really enjoys making things with her hands. Also, it does require a list of supplies for each project.

A Dollhouser In Michigan

Tiny Treasures was a great book! I can look through this book again and again to just find more things that amaze me! As I am a kid, I don't have enough money to make dollhouse/miniature collecting a full-time hobby, but I make things form the Tiny Treasures book and get ideas for my own things. People comment on the things I make from Tiny treasures and say they are great! I totally recommend this book!