Secret Spaces, Imaginary Places: Creating Your Own Worlds for Play - Hardcover

McCoy, Elin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0027654605 ISBN 13: 9780027654608

Publisher: Atheneum, 1986

Synopsis

Provides instructions for constructing a variety of play spaces including pirate ships, castles, Indian tipis, and secret hideouts using inexpensive and free materials.

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Grade 4-6 Harried parents, scout leaders, and children looking for rainy day diversions or a project to break up a long summer will find many ideas to satisfy budding building interests. Each ``construction'' starts out with a list of supplies, followed by step-by-step directions for cutting, taping, and building the fort, castle, etc. Well-labeled line drawings help to clarify the instructions. The projects include such things as a sheik's tent (made from a card table and sheets), a wooden clubhouse, a junkyard fort (made from ``treasures'' collected from trash or junkyards), and a ``Creepy Halloween Tunnel'' (complete with spooky things to see, hear, and feel). There are also directions for two puppet theaters and a basic ``store.'' McCoy includes cautions for cutting and collecting materials as well as getting parental permission. Where such craft-type books are popular, this should not be a shelf sitter. Lisa Corlee, Metropolitan Library System, Okalahoma City
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atheneum
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0027654605
• ISBN 13: 9780027654608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 76