Cool Knitting for Kids: A Fun and Creative Introduction to Fiber Art

Fun and Creative Introduction to Fiber Art

by Alex Kuskowski

Learn about the basics of fiber arts while creating cool stuff. The Cool Knitting for Kids title teaches the first steps of how to knit. Activities will help kids use what they learned to make warm mitts for your hands, a simple scarf, hand-dyed yarn and more. Custom how-to photos and easy step-by-step instructions make crafting a blast. Don't wait to get cool crafting! Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

32 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Michelle · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sorry, but when your only models are blond, white girls, you've already lost me.

This book gives brief photographic and written descriptions of knitting basics as well as dyeing and felting. The descriptions aren't bad. Much of the language is borrowed from the "Cool Crocheting for Kids" sister book.

Apart from "there are tons of things to knit" (actual quote) there's not much connection to the rest of the fiber art world: no websites, videos or bibliography to guide a young enthusiast.

Send your young knitter to Dyer's Get Into Knitting before you open this book: the projects inside are interesting but the presentation is outdated and non-inclusive.

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book for a beginner, lots of photos. In terms of stitches it only demonstrates casting on, knit stitch, and cast off; all 3 project ideas are derived from a knitted rectangle. This book will be quickly outgrown if the child continues knitting. However, the dying with kool aid and felting are projects I have never done.

[Colette · Rating 5 out of 5]

Learn the basics and then put them to work in knitting your own items just for fun or to stay warm.