Sewing: Book Cover Tutorial
My name is Jess and I’ve been sewing since I was about 6 years old. I started with hand sewing but now I love to combine this with work on my vintage hand turned machine...
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My name is Jess and I’ve been sewing since I was about 6 years old. I started with hand sewing but now I love to combine this with work on my vintage hand turned machine and new electric model.
My sewing projects include gifts for family and friends, free motion stitched artwork, clothes, soft toys, dolls and cushions.
This is the first of many guest blog posts that on the Stone Soup blog. Today's guest blogger is Lukas Cooke, 10, who urges us to think more about nature and how we can protect it.
Have you ever wondered what the plants and animals around you feel like? Us humans, we don't seem to realize that even in the city, the world around us is teeming with life.
Here are just a few websites and programs that can be helpful for teaching creative writing for students. From lesson plans to book suggestions, these websites have a lot to offer for anyone who wants to encourage children to write.
National Writing Project
The National Writing Project is made up of University-based groups around the United States and help to bring teaching methods that will deve...
The Cavaliers have engaged in many trade talks for their star point guard Kyrie
Irving. Irving has expressed much anxiety to get away from Cleveland, whether or not it has anything to do with LeBron James. There have been many incidents involving bad chemistry between the two.
This writing activity is based on two stories published in the May/June 1994 issue of Stone Soup: "The Mother's Day Gift" by Mathew Thompson, 11, and "The Clay Pot" by Naomi Wendland, 12. Follow the links to open the stories in a new window, and read both of them carefully as part of the activity.
These two stories deal with the same problem: the temptation to lie to hide a mistake.
We are often asked--and we often wonder--what careers our young authors and illustrators went on to as they grew up, so we were thrilled to hear from Rachel Stanley, one of our published illustrators and authors from the early 2000s. She gave us permission to share her letter to us with you. If you'd like to see what work she is doing now, you can visit her website.
This writing activity is based on a very funny Kurt Vonnegut lecture on the shape of stories. In this project, students learn to develop compelling narratives by graphing the plots.
American author Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) is best known for his book Slaughterhouse-Five (1969).
This March was composed by Frederick Ouseley (1825-1889) when he was six years old. Frederick grew up to become a composer of church music. He started composing at the age of three -- an older sister transcribed his first pieces. This march is one of the few early works by Frederick that have been published. This recording by Mariana Joyce, age 11, may be the first recording of this piece.
The entries for our February 2017 Music Contest, in which Stone Soup readers recorded their performances of Anna Steiger's childhood composition La Valse des Fleurs (Flower Walz), were so good we decided to choose three winners instead of just one. Each of them receive the prize of a $15.00 Amazon gift certificate, with our congratulations.
You can see and hear all of their performances here.
This lovely piano piece is written by Julius Ugo, age 11. Julius lives in Toronto, Canada.