Kids' Crafts: Paper Fantastic: 50 Creative Projects to Fold, Cut, Glue, Paint & Weave

by Rain Newcomb and Joe Rhatigan

Book Overview

Provides step-by-step instructions for creating fifty objects from paper, as well as an explanation of the various tools required to make these and many other decorative or fun paper products. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579904769
• ISBN13: 9781579904760
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
• Length: 111 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 9

Customer Reviews

Nice ideas

This book has nice full color pages, and a lot of tool/technique tips. The crafts are fairly unique, enough to capture your interest. The age suggestion (8-14) given on the back cover of the book should be heeded, I feel, as most of the projects have multiple steps requiring time, skill, or patience to a greater degree than younger children may have. It is definitely more adaptable for older people than it is for younger...younger children will need assistance nearly every step of the way. All in all, it is a nice book with good ideas and the directions appear to be concise.

Great Entertainment and Source of Creativity

My 7 year old daughter loves to craft, with anything! She'll take anything she can get her hands on and make something out of it. Although she still does this, I wanted to focus her a little more into gifts she could make or crafts that looked more like what she was trying to do. I never told her that I didn't like the other creations though and they are still all over the house! However, I could see her beginning frustration at not having the right things to make the crafts she wanted to. Then with this book, she found the guide she needed. She knows what materials to look for for certain projects and gets new ideas and makes her own gifts for birthday's and holidays and decorations. She's been even more inspired to create, if that's possible now and I'm glad I got this book. It is very child friendly and full of great ideas! So, if you have an avid crafter that loves to work with paper, scissors and glue, this is the book to get and watch their imaginations blossom. If you have a child that you would like to get interested in crafts, this book would be very useful too. It's kid friendly and could be adapted for older and younger kids too.