At your fingertips: Grasses

Duration: 10

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1969

Creator: Aci Productions

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: GRASSES introduces a familiar plant in several forms. Lawn grass, tail grass, and marsh grass have similarities, so do corn and bamboo. Children can make use of grass in various ways. A pattern is made by shadows of grass leaves on paper; a more permanent record is made by placing paper over grass stalks and rubbing with a crayon. Long stalks of grass can be woven to make a belt. The children use tall marsh grass to make striking costumes and primitive headdresses., At Your Fingertips - Grasses From the series At Your Fingertips Series Distributed by Aims Media, Inc; Produced by Winkler, Mary Anna and Peter ErikPC: WINKLE Year published 1970 Grade Level: P I Distributed on media: 1 videocassette (10 min.), 1/2 in.; 1 videocassette (u-matic) (10 min.), 3/4 in.; 1 film reel (10 min.), 16 mm. Color?Color Length: 10 MIN Description: Explains the kinds of grasses and how they can be used. Demonstrates gathering and drying of grass for use in games and crafts. Shows simple print-making, decorating of gift boxes, making of collages, grass skirts and masks. Topics: Arts-And-Crafts; Children's-Art-Activities

Complete Record: GRASSES introduces a familiar plant in several forms. Lawn grass, tail grass, and marsh grass have similarities, so do corn and bamboo. Children can make use of grass in various ways. A pattern is made by shadows of grass leaves on paper; a more permanent record is made by placing paper over grass stalks and rubbing with a crayon. Long stalks of grass can be woven to make a belt. The children use tall marsh grass to make striking costumes and primitive headdresses., At Your Fingertips - Grasses From the series At Your Fingertips Series Distributed by Aims Media, Inc; Produced by Winkler, Mary Anna and Peter ErikPC: WINKLE Year published 1970 Grade Level: P I Distributed on media: 1 videocassette (10 min.), 1/2 in.; 1 videocassette (u-matic) (10 min.), 3/4 in.; 1 film reel (10 min.), 16 mm. Color?Color Length: 10 MIN Description: Explains the kinds of grasses and how they can be used. Demonstrates gathering and drying of grass for use in games and crafts. Shows simple print-making, decorating of gift boxes, making of collages, grass skirts and masks. Topics: Arts-And-Crafts; Children's-Art-ActivitiesNOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.