GIVING AWAY BOOKS....

Clearing bookshelves

Hallo, everyone out there!
I’m trying to shuffle through my bookshelves and have the first of (hopefully) several batches of books up for grabs if anyone wants any of them!

There are two main sets of books here...
folktales and environmental education and art activity books
magical books

These are free to anyone although I would appreciate it if we could sort for you to pay postage!


Just let me know if any of the attached interest you. I’ll do it on a first come-first served basis

Either pm me or drop me an email: creepingtoad@btinternet.com

Best wishes
Gordon

MAGICAL BOOKS: ALL THIS SET OF MAGICAL BOOKS HAVE GONE TO NEW HOMES....MORE COMING ON LINE IN A DAY OR SO!

Ref	Author	Title	Publisher	ISBN
25	Baker Douglas M	Astral projection	Aquarian 1977	0-85030-141-6
6	Brennan, JH	Reincarnation	Aquarian 1981	0 85030 275 7
3	Butler, WE	How to develop Psychometry	Aquarian 1983	0 85030 180 7
3	Butler, WE	How to develop Psychometry (2 copies)	Aquarian 1983	0 85030 180 7
28	Butler, WE	The Aura	Aquarian 1979	0 85030 179 3
9	Cavendish, R	The Black Arts	Pan, 1967	0 330 02223 7
8	Clough, Nigel	Magic Mirros	Aquarian 1977	0 85030 129 7
15	Conway, D	MAgic, an occult primter	Mayflower 1972	582 12179 9
7	Crow WB	Occult Properties of herbs & plants	Aquarian 1980	0 85030 196 3
16	Daniken	Miracles of the gods	Corgi 1981	0 552 10371 3
35	Drury, Neville	The occult experience	Hale, 1987	0 7090 2961 6
24	Fenton, Sash	Fortune telling by tarot cards	Aquarian 1985	0-85030-369-9
17	Hansen, C	Witchcraft at Salem	Arrow 1971	0 09 003910 6
20	Hirsch, P	Supernatural	Pyramid 1968	0 511 01833 060
36	Hope, Murry	Practical Greek Magiic	Aquarian 1985	0 85030 430X
2	Howard, Michael	Candle Burning	Aquarian 1977	0 85030 122X
2	Howard, Michael	Candle Burning ( 2 copies)	Aquarian 1977	0 85030 122X
4	Howard, Michael	The magic of the runes	Aquarian 1980	0 85030 233 1
1	Hunt, Douglas	Exploring the Occult	Pan, 1971	0 330 02648 8
22	Lee, D	Understanding the occult	Paperback Library 1969
23	Line, D & J	Fortune telling by runes	Aquarian 1984	0-85030-367-2
13	Maple, E	The Domain of Devils	Pan, 1966	0 330 02231 8
27	Markham, Ursula	Fortune telling by crystals	Aquarian 1987	0 85030 510 1
11	McCormick	White magic for lovers	Fontana 1973	0 00613351 7
12	Michelet, Jules	Satanism and Witchcraft	Tandem 1970	0 4260 4204 2
29	Montalban, MAdeline	The Tarot	Javelin 1986	0 7137 1784 x
18	Moss & Keeton	Encounters with the past (hypnotic regression)	Penguin 1981	0 1400 5587 8
26	Neilsen & Polansky	Pendulum Power	Excalibur 1984	0-85454-077-6
34	Norvell	Mystical Power of pyramid astrology	A Thomas 1978	0 85454 091 1
14	Pauwels & Bergier	The morning of the magician	Mayflower 1972	583 11970 0
5	Rendel, Peter	Introduction to the Chakras	Aquarian 1979	0 85030 161 0
19	Seth, R	Witches and their craft	Tandem 1967	0 4260 4968 3
21	Seth, R	In the name of the devil	Arrow 1970	09 003040 0
33	Walters, Derek	Your future revealed by the Mah Jongg	Aquarian 1982	0 85030 290 0
30	Weaver, Graham	A to Z of the occult	Everest 1975	0 903925 29 3

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND STORYTELLING

Ref	Author	Title	Public	ISBN
102	Barber, Chris	Ghosts of Wales	John Jones, 1979
117	Barker, Clive	Theatre Games	Methuen, 1977	0-413-45380-4
124	Bennett and Taylor	Living Planet	TickTock 2006	1-86007572-X
123	Dearling & Armstrong	New Youth Arts & Crafts Book	RHP1996	1-898924-75-9
110	Dearling, alan et al	Youth Action and the Envrionment	Russell House Publishing, 1997	1-898924-07-4
127	DfEE	All Our Futures, creativity, culture & education	Crown copyright 1999	1-84185 034 9
103	Dunne, John J	Irish Ghosts	Appletree, 1999
114	Finnigan	The complete juggler	Jugglebug, 1991	0-9615521-0-7
106	Grubb, et al	Earth Summit agreements (Rio, 1992)	Earthscan, 1993	1-85383-176-X
107	Hough, Richard	You Can Save the Planet	A & C Black, 2007 (for The Guardian)	978-0-7136-8688-3
105	Howat, Polly	Tales of Old Cambridgeshire	Countryside, 1999
101	James, Henry	The Aspern Papers	Penguin Classics, 1994	0-14-062097-4
109	Johnson, W.H.	Kent Stories of the Supernatural	Countryside, 2000
100	LENIHAN, EDDY	IN SEARCH OF BIDDY EARLY	Mercier, 1987
122	Lynas, Mark	Carbon counter - calculate your carbon footprint	Collins Gem, 2007	978-0-00-724812-4
126	CEE Youth Unit	Go For It Pack	1980s?
115	Mabey, Richard	The Unofficial Countryside	Sphere, 1978	0-7221-5709-6
118	Maine, Sandy	The Soap Book, simple herbal recipes	Interweave, 1995	1-883010-14-4
119	Morrison, Blake	songs of sacred places, children’s poetry in the year 2000	Sacred Land, 2000
126	Pike & Selby	Reconnecting from National to Global Curriculum	WWF 1995	0-947613-70-6
104	Pugh, Jane	Welsh ghosts and phantoms	Emeralda, 1979
116	Russell, James	How to turn your parents green	Tangent, 2007	978-0-9553520-9-6
108	Rutherford, Leo	Book of games and warm-ups for group leaders	Gale Centre Publications, 1994	1-870258-30-4
111	Sinclair, David	Shades of Green, myth and muddle in the countryside	Paladin, 1991	0-586-08708-7
121	Stott, Robin	The Ecology of Health, Schumacher briefings	Green Books, 2,000	1-870098-80-3
112	Timberlake and Thomas	When the bough breaks: our children, our environment	Earthscan, 1990	1-85383-082-8
125	Walker & Shioman	The Wisdom of Bones (in search of human origins)	TSP1996	0 297 81670 5
120	Wood, B	Our world, God’s world: reflections for Advent and the Christmas Season on the environment	Bible Reading fellowship, 1986	0-900164-69-7
113	Wyland, Creech & Balogh	Hold your water! 68 things you need to know to keep our planet blue	Andrews McMeel, 2006	0-7407-5682-6

A fingerful of animals

A Fingerful of Animals

making a fingerpuppet garden of creatures 

As the spring unfolds and we can’t get out and play as much as we might like….why not make a handful of animals to infest your garden with or set up strange ecosystems in a bedroom

You will need:

• A sheet of card (mostly A5 (about 15cm x 20cm) will do, some puppets might need A4 (about 20cm x 30 cm) small insects could work on A6 (15cm x 10cm) Cereal packet card works well instead
• Sharp scissors
• Pencil
• Coloured pencils or felt pens
• Small stapler
• Glue stick

Useful techniques

Before we deal with the main activity, you might like to experiment with

·      fold - keep the crease sharp

·      fold-back – practise folding a strip of card in half then folding it back on itself to make a sort of folded zig-zag: good for necks and arthropod legs

·      curl – draw a thin strip of card between your thumb and the hard edge of say a ruler or the back of scissors

·      internal cuts: sharp scissors or a knife to cut a V in your card: lift this to make spikes or feathers

Start making

1. As folded shapes, this activity works best for symmetrical animals - snails and wriggly ones (worms, centipedes) are probably better just drawn and cut out – then jump to stage 6

2. Think about your animal and fold your card in half- which way depends on the length of your animal

3. Use the fold as the middle or backbone of your animal and draw one half of it on the card: keep the drawing as large as you can while still fitting on the card. Keep the shape simple and keep limbs thick (you’ll need to cut them out)

4. Cut through both sides of the card (AND NOT ALONG THE FOLD!)

5. Open out. We hope you have an animal! Draw in the detail on the other side of the body. Colour or decorate the whole creature

6. Scrap (or extra card) gave a finger strip: 1cm wide and about 10cm long: roll into a ring, staple then staple into the underside of the fold

Extra touches:

Scrap card: thin strips were curled gave us antennae on the crayfish

People: you can make a few human-type puppets in just the same way. This fine fellow uses my fingers as legs. If you don’t want animals you could always make a football team for your family (5-a-sides maybe?)

Necks, ears and antlers:

If you draw a neck at least twice as long as it should be, that will give you card to fold-back and make your animal more animated – look at the mouse and the swan

Ears and antlers: draw these in even if the angle feels odd, cut out and then fold up – see the deer

As a group:

You could plan your animals together and make a food chain, adding some scenery on a table top and acting out “the adventures of a mouse”, or “the hungry fox”, or “the watchful owl”…..

Our puppets

We drew our puppets with thick black pen so they would show up as we worked. If you work in pencil, it is easier to make changes if a line goes wrong!

Crayfish: not very common but a useful animal for showing lots of different techniques

Mouse: this method gives you a mouse with 2 tails! Trim one carefully to give your mouse a neat bottom! Look at the folded ears and fold-back on the neck

Deer: look at the fold-back neck and fold-up antlers

Swan: as a simple flying bird shape, this is a quick animal to make and the same idea would work well with other birds, bats, butterflies and bees. A swimming swan takes the same shape and folds it a bit. A flying bat can have its wings folded back on themselves to give someone sleepier. Try for yourself

 An earlier version of this activity was 

published by Wildlife Watch in 2017