Arts & Crafts Busy Book : 365 Activities

By Trish Kuffner

Book Overview

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

The Arts & Crafts Busy Book contains 365 screen-free, fun, 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684018721
• ISBN13: 9780684018720
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Balance
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Ok

Some good crafts, about half, not easy to do...

Great book for long winters indoors with young kids...

This is a nicely organized book. You can pick crafts based on holidays or the type of craft - food/paint etc. Most all crafts you can do at home with things you should already have in house. Perfect for those with young kids living in the midwest/east coast with the LONG cold winters indoors!!

Great book!

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!

Crafting and play fun for toddlers

Full of simple arts and crafts for toddlers and preschool children "The Arts and Crafts Busy Book" is a great resource. In total there are 365 basic crafts grouped into 12 chapters. Some of the areas covered include coloring, painting, printmaking, modeling, sculpting, nature arts and crafts, educational arts and crafts, and holiday arts and crafts. Each craft is laid out in cookbook style listing all the materials required first and then the instructions for completing the craft. Easy, fun activities for preschool children, "The Arts and Crafts Busy Book" is highly recommended for anyone who deals with young children.