Product Description

Story Time Crafts for Kids books will be a boon for the busy soccer mom, scout leader, care provider or teacher who wants to provide kids with activities that are productive and structured, but require little prep time and no training. Each volume is designed for adults to use as a tool to engage kids in craft activities. With 26 projects packed into each volume, the set provides tons of creative fun for each week of the year! Each project is inspired by a classic work of children's literature, enabling teachers and parents to encourage reading in addition to providing entertainment. Each activity includes information and a synopsis of the book that inspired it. The age range of books sampled varies from kindergarten through 5th grade. The projects use new materials such as polymer clay and fun foam, as well as more familiar materials such as felt, wire and fabric. Easy-to-use, safe tools are employed, making the book kid-friendly. The projects are also designed to minimize any mess or extra clean-up time after the project is finished.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1438827 in Books
• Published on: 2001-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
Holly Alder has worked in the children's section at Barnes & Noble for over seven years, and has years of experience planning crafts for children.

Customer Reviews

For mature audiences
While these volume two projects are again attractive and book-related, they are not particularly useful for librarians and teachers with limited budgets and prep time. The author states in the introduction that they were planned for "ten participants between the ages of four and ten" and cost "between twenty and thirty dollars". The projects use a lot of craft store materials in addition to tapestry needles and hammer and nails. I doubt that the parents of my story time kids would be comfortable with them wielding implements of that nature! It does include detailed supplies list-just enough for the ten intended participants, who would have to be pretty mature to produce most of these "with only minimal help". For kids in the upper age range these may work just fine, and adults may enjoy quite a few of them too. There is a "Blind Mice Puppet" project that is a dead-ringer for "Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse"! Appended with project patterns, which are mostly full-size, and macrame diagrams.