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Hearts and Crafts: Beautiful Crafts to Make and Enjoy All Year 'Round
Go crazy for hearts, wear your art, host the best tea party ever, and dream sweet dreams every night - "Hearts & Crafts" will show you how. With little more than a few sparkly pipe cleaners and a little lace, some candy hearts and pearly beads, or a handful of rose petals and strawberries, you can make over 40 crafts and recipes. Clear, step-by-step instructions and lots of illustrations make it fun and easy to create beautiful, fanciful crafts. So, if you’d like to wave a Lavender Wand, flaunt a Ballerina Pin, give away a Garland, or stir your tea with a Cinnamon Stick Honey Dip, this is the book for you!
76 pages, Paperback
Published December 1, 1995
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February 27, 2022
So to be perfectly honest and truthful here, I have personally not all that much enjoyed reading Hearts and Crafts. For yes, while I certainly understand and accept Hearts and Crafts being first and foremost a child-friendly tome of Valentine's Day inspired arts and crafts suggestions (and with also an included section of appropriate for Valentine's Day sweets and treats) and truly do very much appreciate that author Sheri Brownrigg is always consistently thorough and all encompassing regarding health and safety issues and seems to do a nicely precise and sufficiently simple job providing necessary and easy for children to follow instructions, as someone NOT really all that interested in arts and crafts at the best of times (and as such also not wanting to actually make the vast majority of Sheri Brownrigg’s featured crafts etc.), I really and on a personal level do think that there is rather a lot missing in Hearts and Crafts, that there is much left to be desired regarding both Brownrigg’s text and equally her accompanying artwork.
Because, well, most Valentine’s Day arts and crafts books that are (at least in my humble opinion) worth their proverbial salt so to speak, they DO NOT simply feature the former, they DO NOT just present arts and crafts examples and suggestions, but also generally tend to include a historical and cultural introduction to Valentine’s Day as a holiday (how it was celebrated then, how it is celebrated now, and of course also textually showing some of the legends regarding Saint Valentine). And that in Hearts and Crafts, Sheri Brownrigg does not AT ALL provide even a rudimentary introduction to Valentine’s Day in and of itself, this has definitely and majorly made her text much too overly and exaggeratedly focussed on arts and crafts and solely on arts and crafts and thus at least for and to me rather massively boring and also more than a trifle frustrating (and as such definitely not really all that enjoyable). And combined with the fact that ALL of the illustrations are black and white, that in Hearts and Crafts there is not even one colour photograph of the end products being featured, sorry, while I do think that Sheri Brownrigg has not a done a bad job instructing her young readers how to make her Valentine’s Day crafts and food suggestions, for me personally, I am only willing and able to consider but two stars for Hearts and Crafts.
Because, well, most Valentine’s Day arts and crafts books that are (at least in my humble opinion) worth their proverbial salt so to speak, they DO NOT simply feature the former, they DO NOT just present arts and crafts examples and suggestions, but also generally tend to include a historical and cultural introduction to Valentine’s Day as a holiday (how it was celebrated then, how it is celebrated now, and of course also textually showing some of the legends regarding Saint Valentine). And that in Hearts and Crafts, Sheri Brownrigg does not AT ALL provide even a rudimentary introduction to Valentine’s Day in and of itself, this has definitely and majorly made her text much too overly and exaggeratedly focussed on arts and crafts and solely on arts and crafts and thus at least for and to me rather massively boring and also more than a trifle frustrating (and as such definitely not really all that enjoyable). And combined with the fact that ALL of the illustrations are black and white, that in Hearts and Crafts there is not even one colour photograph of the end products being featured, sorry, while I do think that Sheri Brownrigg has not a done a bad job instructing her young readers how to make her Valentine’s Day crafts and food suggestions, for me personally, I am only willing and able to consider but two stars for Hearts and Crafts.
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