Kids' Crafts: Paper Fantastic: 50 Creative Projects to Fold, Cut, Glue, Paint & Weave (Lark Kids' Crafts) [Hardcover]

Joe Rhatigan (Author), Rain Newcomb (Author)

Book Description

Series: Lark Kids' Crafts | Publication Date: March 28, 2004

Safe, easy, fast, and fun: paper crafts are the perfect creative activity for children. And these 48 unique projects—engagingly displayed on colorful pages—prove there’s more to paper art than just cutting out hearts. A special section starts kids off by introducing them to different papers and tools, while six technique-based chapters present imaginative possibilities for transforming everything from corrugated cardboard to vellum. Using collage, budding artists can create a Dream Travel Box. Young fashionistas will enjoy designing their own paper clothesline. Or they might fold a Book Necklace, make an origami Peace Crane, construct big beautiful Butterfly Wings for a costume party, even create a cool paper-mâché pig. Best of all, kids will learn how to turn their own crafty ideas into reality.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Lark Books (March 28, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579904769
• ISBN-13: 978-1579904760
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,725,536 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joe Rhatigan is the author of more than fifteen titles for children and adults, including The Kids' Guide to Nature Adventures and Out-of-This-World Astronomy. He's the former editorial director of Lark Books' children's program, which he launched and ran for seven years. The program's biggest successes included 101 Places You Gotta See Before You're 12!, The Boo Boo Book, and My Very Favorite Art Book: I Love to Draw. Joe lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his wife, three kids, and cat.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice ideas, October 15, 2007

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M. Spano (Northern Calif.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kids' Crafts: Paper Fantastic: 50 Creative Projects to Fold, Cut, Glue, Paint & Weave (Paperback)

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.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Entertainment and Source of Creativity, February 6, 2007

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Jennifer Weber (NY ,United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kids' Crafts: Paper Fantastic: 50 Creative Projects to Fold, Cut, Glue, Paint & Weave (Lark Kids' Crafts) (Hardcover)

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.