Crafty Kids: Fun Projects for You And Your Toddler

by Rosemary Hankin

Here’s a great way for Mom or Dad to spend quality time with their pre-schooler. Fun ideas abound in this bright, cheerful, color-illustrated book filled with quick-and-easy art projects for making posters and paper models. Parents can read instructions aloud to kids as they work together. The book’s introduction lists all needed equipment—glue, scissors, pencil, ruler, crayon or felt-tip pen, stickers, scraps of cloth, and various colors and types of paper. The book’s 28 projects fall into three farm animals; sea creatures; and cars, trains, and planes. Projects are focused to give younger children a real sense of achievement as they have fun creating paper or cloth cows, pigs, fish, whales, trains, trucks, airplanes, and even rocket ships!

Genres: Crafts

64 pages, Paperback

First published August 4, 2006

Reviews

[Meredith Henning · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great and super easy projects to assemble and have at the ready for your littlest crafters!

[Vivian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Inspired by the Octopus Collage featured on page 24...

Squid collage
• Plain white legal sized paper sheets for everyone
• Blue 8 ½ x 11 paper sheets for everyone
• Scissors for everyone
• Glue sticks or glue tubes to share
• Colored circle stickers (about 5 per person)
• Crepe paper strips (4 approximately 6” strips per person, various colors)
• Wiggle eyes (these do not have to be the same size or color—two per person
• Ocean life rubber stamps and colored washable ink pads
Demonstrate
1. How to randomly cut a pointy squid shape
2. How to apply glue to the back of the squid shape and adhere it to the white legal-size paper
3. Random placement of circle stickers
4. How to apply glue spots to page and adhere the wiggle eyes onto the spots
5. How to apply glue stripes to the front side of the bottom of the squid
6. How to adhere the crepe paper strips to the glue stripes
7. How to apply ink to the stamps and stamp the exposed white part of the background

[jacky · Rating 4 out of 5]

This really is a book full of easy crafts, most of which you can make immediately with items in your home already. I like that it has a basic craft and then gives you a few ideas for making it harder for an older child. Variety of animals, plants, and vehicles. They range in materials. Also, the outcomes are varied, so they aren't all one dimensional items to hang on the fridge.