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Arts & Crafts Busy Book : 365 Activities

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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!

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!

This book was not what I thought. Activities are very basic and it is a small paperback book without many illustrations, so it's up to you to figure out the descriptions.

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.

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!!

This book offers many good ideas for parents to do with their kids. I think it would be more helpful if it includes photos of the finished products. Even though I own this book, I usually go to crafting blogs or family magazines for arts and crafts ideas because they have photos of the process and finished products.

i love this book for my toddler class, it has tons of ideas ... but i was extremely disappointed on the christmas part , not only did they not tell about christmas, they made it into a stressful holiday all about shoppin and gifts, absolutely nothing to do with what christmas really is ! very disappointing mainly because the other holidays had excellent explanations and christmas was sooo wrong !

Arts & Crafts Busy Book : 365 Activities by Trish Kuffner, Bruce Lansky
the book will help on makeing a lot of activities