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Check my
Let's Make Stuff page for directions on how to make a paper campfire with your young friends and family members. Very cute and you can use it as a fire starter when you go camping.
It's KBWT! I'd like to feature
Kathy Ross' website as the Kids Book Website for today. Kathy has written slews and slews of books about making crafts with kids, or about kids making crafts. Her crafts often use items that other people will toss away. Some of her crafts are SO clever and SO easy that I am speechless with wonder. To be completely unbiased, I have to admit that a few of her crafts do not appeal to me. But every single one of her books has several crafts that I wish I had thought up first.
So many craft books for kids result in "cute" things that are really more about technique and/or about keeping the kids busy than they are about making something useful. Kathy Ross' crafts often have a play or gift component. The Comet Balls from her book
Crafts for Kids Who Are Wild about Outer Space are a good example. (Sadly, the book is no longer in print.) We made those last week for the Stories in the Schools. They are simple aluminum foil balls with ribbon tails that allow children to toss the balls and catch them by the tails. So easy to do. So cute. Have I been effusive enough?
Check out the website. Look for Kathy's books at the bookstore or library tonight!
Well here at A Patchwork of Books, it's Earth Month! I'm celebrating Earth Day and Arbor Day allll month long, with tons of giveaways, cool eco-friendly products, and book reviews galore!
Earth-Friendly Crafts: Clever Ways to Reuse Everyday Items has been put together by the ever-so-creative Kathy Ross and illustrated by Celine Malepart. Exactly as the title describes, it is filled to the brim with super-cool ways to reuse everyday household items, making them into fun crafts.
There are instructions for making bookmarks, pencil holders, necklaces, puppets, magnets, notecards, and a whole ton of other fun things, all out of stuff families normally just throw in the trash. Take old puzzle pieces and create an alligator! Take loose marker caps and make a pencil holder!Take gloves that no longer have a match and make an octopus puppet! Lots and lots to do in here, all with stuff you already have...that means no cost involved AND you're helping to prevent landfills from getting unnecessary things added to them.
Anything to help save our planet, I'm game for. Earth-Friendly Crafts would make a great addition to any library and any family that likes to create things! The crafts are probably best for your older kids, say 5-10...but with help, younger children can definitely participate.
To learn more or to purchase, click on the book cover above to link to Amazon.
Earth-Friendly Crafts: Clever Ways to Reuse Everyday Items
Kathy Ross
48 pages
Non-fiction
Millbrook Press
9780822590996
March 2009
