Cover -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Using the Symbols -- Table of Contents -- Using the Symbols -- 7 Building Blocks to Creativity -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Painting and Drawing -- Free Drawing or Painting -- Newspaper Design -- Tin Can Sponge Paintings -- Cardboard Box Painting -- Fresco -- Impasto -- Plastic Scrimshaw -- Plastic Paint Bags -- Slate Shingle Paintings -- Roofing Felt Drawings -- Nature Rubbings -- Stone Painting -- Indoor Rainbow -- Shadow Drawing -- Cotton Ball Clouds -- Sand Paintings -- Pots, Pans, and Paper -- Junkyard Paintings -- Snow Paintings -- Ice-y Art -- Poster Time -- My Own Book -- Sheet Banners -- Wall Hanging -- Glue Batik -- T-Shirt Transfers -- Draw From Nature -- Bracket Fungi Painting -- Inky Leaf Silhouettes -- Leaf Bursts -- Film Etching -- Chapter 2: Sculpture and Mobiles -- Hanging Box Art -- String Swag -- Newspaper Sculpture -- Paper Tube Sculpture -- Shadow Art -- Mat Board Sculpture -- Cardboard City -- Cereal Box Buildings -- Paper Trash Sculpture -- Aces Wild Sculpture -- Paper Bag Sculpture -- Stuffed Brown Bag -- Doll's Play House -- Shadow Box -- Wire Figures -- Machine Sculpture -- Design Jars -- Soap Carvings -- Breezy Rings -- Styrofoam Mobile -- Wire Coat Hanger Mobile -- Hoop Mobile -- Cup Sculpture -- Lid Mobile -- Can Sculpture -- Tin Can Mobile -- Toothpick Sculpture -- Frame Sculpture -- Cinnamon Ornaments -- Theme Tree -- Modeling Beeswax -- Burdock Figures -- Sandy Bakery -- Snowy Bakery -- Pine Cone Sculptures -- Seashell Displays -- On-Site Beach Art -- Nature Box -- Nature Gatherings -- Driftwood Sculpture -- Nest Construction -- Nature Mobile -- Elderberry Wind Chimes -- Seashell Chimes -- Pebble Towers -- Totem Pole -- Cheese Carving -- Sculpture Salad -- Garden Critters -- Chapter 3: Collage and Printing -- Cardboard Collage -- String Collage -- Pizza Puzzles.

Match Box Puzzle -- Mechanical Contraption -- Easy Decoupage -- Seed Wiggles -- Wood Shavings Collage -- Put-Togethers -- Dried Bean Pictures -- Waxed Paper Leaf Collage -- Sandwich Bag Designs -- Foil Art -- Funny-Paper Art -- Bean Jar -- Sands of Many Colors -- Yarn Prints -- Junk Printing -- Easy Sun Print -- Solar Prints -- Innertube Prints -- Roller Printing Cans -- Stencil Prints -- Screen Print -- Chalk Floats -- Bubble Pop Art -- Cup Stamps -- Garden Prints -- Leaf Prints -- Ironed Leaf Designs -- Foiled Leaf Prints -- Mushroom Spore Print -- Pressed Cookie Prints -- Chapter 4: Weaving and Crafts -- Branch Weaving -- Fence Weaving -- Weaving Trays -- Fruit Basket Weaving -- Six Pack Ring Weaving -- Shrinkers -- Shrinkles I -- Shrinkles II -- Paperweight Jars -- Tin Can Pencil Holder -- Stained Glass Lantern -- Soup Can Lantern -- Luminaries -- Masking Tape Vase -- Web Art -- Leaf Skeletons -- Cattail Fluff Pillow -- Sunflower Seed Wreath -- Grape Vine Wreath -- Pine Branch Wreath -- Nature Wreath -- Trim a Tree for Birds -- Holiday Chain -- Veggie Garland -- Wildflower Chain -- Feather Necklace -- Pebble Necklace -- Seed Necklace -- Newspaper Beads -- Walnut Shell Boats -- Egg Shell Planters -- Eggheads -- Wood Chip Garden -- Pine Cone Garden -- Lentil-Piece -- Milk Carton Planter -- Plastic Bird Feeder -- Plastic Bottle Terrarium -- Grocery Baskets -- Bark Baskets -- Squash-O-Lantern -- Gourd Art -- Musical Gourd Shaker -- Gourd Guitar -- Animal Tracks Casting -- Colorful Coal Crystals -- Keep Clam -- Flower Box Pictures -- Cattail Basket -- Cattail Weaving -- Chapter 5: Homemade by Hand -- Earth Paints -- Earth Crayons -- Roll-On Painters -- Nature Paintbrush -- Homemade Chalk and Board -- Egg Shell Crayons -- Natural Finger Paint -- Easy Finger Paint -- Homemade Rice Paste -- Homemade Flour Paste -- Homemade Paper -- Handmade Lint Paper.

Recycled Wrap -- Wrappings and Bows -- Natural Berry Dye -- Natural Dyes: Sources -- Kool-Aid Dyes -- Tie-Dye -- Natural Egg Dyes -- Onion Skin Egg Dye -- Finding and Forming Natural Clay -- Clay Pinch Pot -- Basic Natural Kiln -- Homemade Fossils -- Homemade Perfume -- Homemade Candles -- Sand Dried Flowers -- Sand Baked Flowers -- Glycerin Preserving -- Pressed Plants -- Potpourri -- Homemade T-Shirt Yarn -- Old Sock Puppets -- Chapter 6: Resource Guide -- Where to Find Free Materials -- Environmental Organizations and Resources -- Bibliography -- Index, Projects -- Index, Materials -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- About the Authors -- About the Authors -- Bright Ideas Bookshelf.