Creative Crafts for Kids : Over 100 Fun Projects for Two to Ten Year Olds

by Dickinson, Gill

• ISBN13: 9780600615903
• ISBN10: 0600615901
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-01
• Publisher: Hamlyn

Summary

Gill Dickinson and Cheryl Owenboth authors of many popular crafts bookshave teamed up to create a volume jam-packed with more than 100 stimulating projects (plus variations) for 2- to 10-year-olds. Designed to maximize children's imaginations, these activities provide plenty of space for kids to stretch their own creative muscles. Little hands will happily keep busy creating and crafting with everything from enjoyably messy clays and paints to fabrics, beads, and other materials. A jazzy t-shirt, fancy cake, or hand-painted wrapping paper: it's here, with easy-to-follow instructions and templates to help kids along.

Author Biography

Gill Dickinson and Cheryl Owen-both authors of many popular crafts books-have teamed up to create a volume jam-packed with more than 100 stimulating projects (plus variations) for 2- to 10-year-olds. Designed to maximize children's imaginations, these activities provide plenty of space for kids to stretch their own creative muscles. Little hands will happily keep busy creating and crafting with everything from enjoyably messy clays and paints to fabrics, beads, and other materials. A jazzy t-shirt, fancy cake, or hand-painted wrapping paper: it's here, with easy-to-follow instructions and templates to help kids along.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Fun with Paper

Make your own personalized stationery including birthday and Valentine cards, novelty pop up designs, decorated notebook and paper bags, wrapping paper and gift tags

Dazzling Decorations

Includes festive table decorations, beaded curtains, wind chime, shell mobile, artificial flowers, salt dough butterfly, paper friezes and 3-D paper decorations

Make It, Wear It

Includes jazzed up T-shirts, tie-dye, scary skeleton shirt, skull and glitter masks, feathered headband, wizard's hat, flower power bonnet, finger puppets

Baubles, Bangles and Beads

Includes beaded candles, foam necklace, papier-mache choker, button key ring, sequinned glasses case, jewelled hair clasp and colourful bangles

Home Sweet Home

Includes fridge magnets, bird clock, sweetheart photo frame, hen egg cosy, desk tidy, animal napkin rings

Smells Nice

Includes beeswax candle, lavender pillow, novelty soaps, tussie mussie, winter candle-holders, fragrant drawer sachet

Yummy for my Tummy

Includeds stained glass window biscuits, chocolate fudge, white chocolate truffles, Noah's ark cookies, sweetheart cookies, bat biscuits, chocolate Easter nests

Templates

Index

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