Product Description

Here is first aid in paperback form for days at home with the kids. This entertaining compendium of arts and crafts, games, and projects will help keep an energetic preschooler happy, busy, and challenged. Arranged by age group to allow deft referencing by parents, teachers, or baby-sitters. 50 line illustrations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1057379 in Books
• Published on: 1989-05-13
• Released on: 1989-05-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 196 pages

From the Inside Flap
Here is first aid in paperback form for days at home with the kids. This entertaining compendium of arts and crafts, games, and projects will help keep an energetic preschooler happy, busy, and challenged. Arranged by age group to allow deft referencing by parents, teachers, or baby-sitters. 50 line illustrations.

About the Author
Leslie Hamilton has worked with children in preschools, elementary schools, and scouting.  She is also the author of Child's Play: 200 Instant Crafts and Activities for Pre-schoolers and Child's Play 6-12.

Ms. Hamilton lives in New Hampshire with her husband and two children

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
THE MUMMY

Tear an old white sheet into strips 2-4 inches wide. With child wearing a white or light gray sweat suit, wrap arms, legs and torso with strips. Use safety pins (or a stitch or two) to fasten ends to sweat suit. Leave some ends straggly. Wrap top of head with one or more long strips. White makeup with dark circles under of around the eyes completes the look. For small children, use rolls of gauze instead of sheet strips.

Customer Reviews

I really liked this book!
I spend every Saturday with my 3 nephews. One is 6, the others are two 3-year old twins. This book has saved my life! So many times the kids have been over and I haven't had any idea of how to keep them occupied! Since about January of this year, I've been using "200 Instant Crafts" as an instant sources of great craft ideas. The best part is how inexpensive the crafts are to make. I really do have most of the stuff around the house. The guidelines that tell me for what age the craft is appropriate have been an immense help to me. I had no idea what a 3 year old could and couldn't do as opposed to the 6 year old. Using these guidelines keeps me from asking the kids to do something they aren't ready to do. I'll be using this book all Summer! Thanks.

Child's Play: 200 Instant Crafts and Activities for Preschoo
In this age of videos, TV and the never-ending search for faster and flashier entertainment, what a pleasure to find a book with good, easy and basic ideas for children's crafts. Simple yet timeless ideas that have helped this grandmother enjoy many a rainy afternoon with her grandkids. I remember making some of the projects when I was a kid!

Great for babysitting
I have used this book and the others in the "Child's Play" series for years with lots of preschool and elementary school-aged kids. It is particularly great for babysitters because all the activities can be done using materials everyone has around the house, so you can just scrounge in the kitchen and office for paper, egg cartons, crayons, and other odds and ends for and end up with really cool finished product. Kids love it, and the activities are easy to do and easy to clean up after. Plus the illustrations are cute and funny.