Create 200 concoctions and practical potions, plus gifts from your kitchen with this creative handbook! Recipes include unique soaps, potpourri, homemade craft paint, household cleaners that are safe and effective, polishes, glues, sculpting doughs, fizzy bath salts, lip balms, repellents, bath oils, bubble bath, shower gel, shampoo, candles, pet treats and more, more, more! Paperback, 220 pages.
Take some colorful plastic beads, put them in a creative design on a pegboard, get your Mom to iron across them with your help, of course, and presto! —off pops a permanent piece of art (and very fun standup toy)! We love this classic activity, but the tiny frustration-sized beads you'll find on the market made this project less than kid-friendly-until Melty Beads arrived! Just set the clear pegboard on top each page and place the colorful jumbo beads in place to make animal creations and pretty designs. Kit includes color pattern book, 600 colorful big beads, a sturdy plastic pegboard, and an ironing sheet. This is one addictively fun hobby for creative kids 4 years and up!
Here are the ideal activity pages on excellent quality paper with colorful graphics. Developed by an Asian company to give kids the cutting edge with an early start in education and skills, these thick workbooks are a mother's dream-come-true! One page is enough to keep your child busily working and happy for 15-20 minutes—a bargain indeed! Kids love them, and you'll be amazed at the fine motor skill development you will see!
Use this colorful book to help your child turn a flat piece of paper into a 3-D toy. Great practice cutting with scissors, folding, and gluing to improve fine motor skills! High quality paper and graphics make it wonderful to work with. Highly recommended for ages 4-6 years. 80 pages, 8 1/2" x 11" on high quality paper.
This sequel to My Book of Easy Crafts gives children the opportunity to cut, paste, and assemble their own 3-D paper toys. Each of these toys can move, and are fun to play with! A great craft book for ages 5 to 7 years. 80 pages, 8 1/2" x 11" on high quality paper.
Enjoy learning about other cultures through these simple, inexpensive projects that replicate authentic crafts, artifacts and games of other lands. Create a rainstick from Uganda, assemble easy nesting dolls from Russia, make a South American god's eye or a paper lantern from Korea, and more. 100 craft projects are organized by continent. Patterns and step-by-step instructions make this a fabulous resource for enriching world civilization and geography studies. Paperback, 128 pages, for ages 6-12.
From time to time, we go on origami binges in our family. There is something wonderfully creative about forming a 3-dimensional object from a flat piece of paper! 32 simple origami projects are clearly illustrated in this fun project book. Includes 24 sheets of high-quality, colorful Japanese origami paper, specially made to resist tears and produce sharp folds. Each sheet is colored on one side only to more easily distinguish the folding pattern. Delightful art project.
Includes 51 sheets of high-quality, colorful Japanese 6 x 6" origami paper specially made to resist tears and produce sharp folds. Delightful art project. Resealable box with 17 colors, including metallics and fluorescents!
Candlemaking is something that often resurfaces in my kids' hobby desires. This is the best simple guidebook I've found for beginners. Make more than 20 beautiful candle projects such as a cupcake candle with whipped "icing", dipped candles, floating candles, and more. Photos, diagrams and step-by-step easy instructions for ages 5-14 years. Paperback, 40 pages.
Ever wish you had a mentor to show you how to be a good homemaker? These instructional DVDs are a breath of fresh air! Learn homemaking skills from these down-home sisters (who have families of their own) and their mother as they work together in their homestead. Watch them demonstrate how to do just about everything needed to keep your family fed, clothed and cared for! These DVDs are entertaining and friendly—and easy to learn from! It is so very helpful to see something done, rather than just read instructions on how to do it. These Christian sisters live close to the land and have a lot to share that would make your life better. I highly recommend these!
Hundreds of stickers! Giant sticker book is packed with stickers on favorite themes. Your young artist will find this book designed for creative fun! 14" x 11", for ages 3 and up.
Has ballet, pets, princess, magical garden, tea party, fashion, horses, fairies—over 800 stickers are ready to create a picture or tell a story.
Make your own adorable doll with this "begs-to-be-made" kit. No pins or needles are required and everything is included: soft body, trim, yarn hair, ribbon, glue, face template, instructions, plus a birth certificate. A very fun project!
Louisa loves this design-your-own-outfits kit! She has made a whole wardrobe of unique clothes that are truly artistic. Budding fashion designers will be able to give their creativity full range with all the unique tools for fashioning clothing! Spiral-bound idea book comes bound with ribbons, sequins, sticky gems, glittering embellishments, and glue. Just trace inside the plastic stencils onto the colorful paper "fabrics" to build your design. Combine all types of sleeves, necklines, skirts, tops, and accessories to make just the right outfit! You'll get scads of acid free patterned papers, luxurious textured papers, and plastic design stencils to turn your imagination into a reality. When your special design is finished, hang it on a tiny metal hanger or display it on a mannequin!
Weaving is an ancient art that is very satisfying. I like to include weaving projects when we study ancient history, but my kids are eager to weave all the time! Klutz is known for its fabulous instruction books, and this is no exception, with its bright photos and drawings that show you step-by-step just what to do. Kit includes everything you need to weave wonderful projects: sturdy plastic loom, big crochet hook, oodles of easy-to-work-with smooth cotton-blend loops, rainbow-colored yarn, and a blunt yarn needle. This is a very meaningful project that children love!
Cotton loops make the best potholders, (plus doll-sleeping bags, little purses and more!) Bag of bulky multi-color terry cloth cotton loops will make 2 potholders. Contains 4 oz of loops.
Add pizazz to your art projects with this unique paper. Just draw with the wooden stylus and your strokes will transform into dazzling multicolor! The paper appears blank, but an underlayer of color is revealed as the stylus scratches off the top surface. The more you scratch, the more brilliant color is exposed. Deluxe kit includes 16 assorted scratch magic sheets (glittering holographic, rainbow, and stained glass translucent), stencil with 30 shapes, fine-point and medium-point wooden stylus, 3 easel frames and more. Ages 5 and up. A "Best Toy" award winner!
Here's is a fabulous tool kit for anyone who has ever wanted to make chunky block letters, blobby balloon letters, swirly, curly letters . . . and so forth! A bound-on pouch holds the tools, like fine-tipped markers, a mechanical pencil, eraser, and artist's pencils in 16 different shades to turn your words into distinctively colorful language. Use the included practice paper to trace unique alphabets, or copy them freehand. Includes sticker paper to make your own stickers too! Use the 5 plastic stencils—two complete alphabets plus assorted extras—to act as super-stylish training wheels. For ages 8 and up, spiral-bound.
Ammon loves this book! Kit includes 4 sturdy design wheels that snap into a frame to create zillions of fascinating spiral designs! The book stimulates your imagination with lots of creative activities to work right on the pages, from "Scratch-a-Doodle" to "Spiral Soak Art." Includes 3 special gel pens too. A very fun art book!
Make your own fun greeting cards! With this book, art projects don't just hang on the fridge for a month and then get tossed, but they are actually given to others and fully enjoyed! Everyone who receives them "oohs" and "aahs" at your cleverness! The easy step-by-step drawings show you how to make really creative pop-up cards, cards with turning parts, and every other 3-D card you can imagine. Paperback, 93 pages, black-and-white drawings.
Kids love gummy worms, but the real treat is in learning how they are made! Kit includes all the ingredients you will need plus detailed instructions. Fun and educational.
