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Arts & Crafts Busy Book : 365 Activities

Arts & Crafts Busy Book : 365 Activities
By Trish Kuffner

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365 FUN, CREATIVE ACTIVITIES TO STIMULATE YOUR CHILD EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

This book contains 365 creative and educational arts and crafts projects for children ages two to six that provide a great alternative to using TV as a babysitter. It shows parents and daycare providers how to:

  • Stimulate creativity and self-expression with activities that encourage a child to explore his or her place in the world.

  • Create experiments with paint, glue, playdough, paper, and markers that focus a child's energy constructively.

  • Encourage the development of a child's concentration and coordination, as well as organizational and manipulative skills, with well-chosen arts and crafts projects.

  • Save money by making arts and crafts supplies such as paints, playdough, and craft clay with ingredients that can be found around the home.

    Celebrate the holidays and other occasions with special projects and activities.

    The Arts and Crafts Busy Book is written with warmth and sprinkled with humor and insight. It should be required reading for anyone raising or teaching young children.

    • Product Details

    • Amazon Sales Rank: #173174 in Books
    • Published on: 2003-06-01
    • Original language: English
    • Number of items: 1
    • Binding: Paperback
    • 408 pages

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    About the Author
    Trish Kuffner lives with her husband and five children just outside of Vancouver, British Columbia.

    Customer Reviews

    Great book!5
    This book is great! There's never a dull moment when you have Kuffner's Busy Books around! My tot loves the ideas! I loved the whole Busy Box concept and he has a lot of fun exploring it too! Great idea, great buy, thanks Trish!

    Awesome Book5
    I have been a first grade teacher for 12 years, so I really know arts and crafts books inside and out. This is an outstanding book. What sets this book apart from all of the other craft books out there is Trish's aversion to doing crafts with kids. She wrote that she just wasn't that into it. Therefore, she has written a book that has projects that require VERY little adult help, are easy, have little clean up, and best of all ~ they are really FUN for kids! I just open the book, read what is on the page, and set my 5 and 6 year old to work. For example, one day I opened the book and my kids found themselves at the kitchen table with mini marshmallows and toothpicks, building. Clean up for me: a few toothpicks on the floor. (and a week later sneaking it into the trash) They had a blast for the whole evening doing that. This is my favorite Arts and Crafts book. Really, her whole series is great, but I would start with this one. Happy Non Crafting!

    Love this book!5
    Love the whole series, really. There are so many fantastic ideas for different ages and abilities. I love that it includes different artistic mediums and encourages you to focus on trying new things. Learning and exploring are much more important than producing picture perfect results. She even has recipes for making your own paints and playdough, etc.