Free Stuff for Crafty Kids on the Internet [Paperback]

Judy Heim (Author), Gloria Hansen (Author)

Book Description

Series: Free Stuff on the Internet

Saving hours surfing the web, readers can use this quick guide to find hundreds of free offerings of crafts projects for kids and the family.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Kids are irresistibly drawn to the Internet, and of course parents want to make their children's time online both safe and productive. This worthwhile guide scores on both counts, providing essential information on general Web navigation and usage, excellent safety pointers, and hundreds of URLs for many types of youth-oriented craft sites. Since it's organized by category, users can easily pinpoint a particular interest, from various paper crafts to polymer clay, rubber stamping to doll and teddy bear making, even magic and juggling. All the sites offer free downloads (generally project instructions and/or coloring pages); those that also sell craft products are marked with a shopping cart symbol. TV shows are perhaps inescapable when it comes to kids, but the authors give TV a refreshingly minimal presence, listing only those TV-related sites that offer coloring pages or craft activities. Parents will discover plenty of Web sites of interest to creative grownups, too. --Amy Handy

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications; 1st edition (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571200800
• ISBN-13: 978-1571200808
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,701,228 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FABULOUS! Great tips, great sites, great fun!, November 26, 1999

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Carl Peters (Asheville, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Free Stuff for Crafty Kids on the Internet (Paperback)

Heim and Hansen have done it again! I bought Free Stuff for Quilters for my wife, and she loves it. We bought Free Stuff for Crafty Kids for our children, and we all love it. The beginning of the book is solid Internet information, the stuff everyone surfing should know. The meat of the book is a large assortment of "crafty" sites for everyone, young and old, of all skill levels. Sure we could find similar sites on our own. But why bother? Heim and Hansen did all the work and leave us with all the fun. I'm making kites with my son. My wife and daughter are polishing their drawing skills and learning about rubber stamping. I highly recommends this book!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Covers safe sites, April 12, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Free Stuff for Crafty Kids on the Internet (Paperback)

The sites are terrific and well researched, but what I really liked best was all the information about how to make surfing the internet safe for my kids.