Maya: Amazing Inventions You Can Build Yourself with 25 Projects

In this completely revised and updated edition, children are introduced to the world of the ancient Maya, the most advanced and mysterious civilization of the New World. From ceremonial masks and hieroglyphics to calendars and musical instruments, the hands-on projects in this fun and educational book allow children to experience how the Maya lived, cooked, worshipped, entertained themselves, and interacted with their neighbors. Children will re-create favorite Maya games, carve their own glyphs in soap, cook homemade tortillas, and make Mayan-style jewelry and pottery. Detailed step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and templates for each project are combined with historical facts and anecdotes, biographies, and trivia for the real-life models of each project, making this project book an ideal firsthand look at daily life in ancient Mesoamerica.

Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt is the author of Great World War II Projects You Can Build Yourself and a coauthor of 2005 NASCAR Travel Planner and Ripley's Believe It or Not! Planet Eccentric! She has written for American Profile, Family Circle, Go, Ladies' Home Journal, and the Washington Post. She lives in Plano, Texas. Tom Casteel is an illustrator and cartoonist who recently graduated from the Center for Cartoon Studies. He lives in South Bend, Indiana.