A Family Fun Bargain!

Order our book, Bottlecaps to Brushes: Art Activities for Kids, during the month of July and get a 20 percent discount.

Bottlecaps to Brushes guides youngsters through twenty-four art projects using everyday materials—such as leaves, fabric scraps, and magazines.

Cappy, a cartoon giraffe who leads the museum tour and activities, is based on a folk art giraffe made from bottlecaps in the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection (shown below).

Bottlecaps to Brushes teaches basic art concepts and wards off the summertime blahs!

Pictured top: Bottlecaps to Brushes book cover.

Pictured bottom: Unidentified Artist, Bottlecap Giraffe, completed after 1966, bottlecaps on painted wood with marbles and animal hair and fur, 72 1/2 x 54 x 17 1/2 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson.