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Making Crafts from Your Kids' Art [Paperback]

Valerie Van Arsdale Shrader (Author)
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February 1, 2005
Show off your children's cherished artistic masterpieces, and incorporate their creativity into your daily life. From ideas for organization and preservation to projects for clocks, albums, and enchanted wainscoting, here are dozens of unusual ways to take kids' art to another level. Every inspiring page presents the work of real children, and the crafts come with easy-to-follow instructions and templates where needed. Using transfer material, take that pretty picture your daughter drew and put the design on a cup and saucer. Showcase the illustrations of many children at once with a family-style calendar or knit a child's design onto a sweater. Every time you look at these projects, they'll warm your heart.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Lark Books (February 1, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1579906737
  • ISBN-13: 978-1579906733
  • Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,691,683 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Valerie Van Arsdale Shrader made a pair of pink culottes when she was eleven years old, and has loved fabric ever since. She's a senior editor at Lark Books, and has written and edited many books related to textiles and needlework. Valerie knits every now and then, too, and dreams about making art quilts.

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fun and functional ways to display your kids artwork, December 12, 2003
Like me, you probably have overflowing boxes of artwork that your kids have proudly brought home from school that you can't bear to throw away. Valerie Van Arsdale Schrader to the rescue with her book MAKING CRAFTS FROM YOUR KIDS ART.

From easy to difficult, there is something here for everyone of every crafting level to try. The directions are step-by-step with accompanying photos to show you the original child's art as compared to the finished display product.

Some of the projects included are: cup & saucer printed with artwork, a magnetic message board, postcards, a canvas bag print, wrapping paper, tin frame, silk pillow, and even floor throws and wainscoting! Be forewarned that for many of the more involved projects you will need computer access, drills, heavy-duty cutting equipment like hacksaws, and for one, even an electric glass grinder! Fortunately, most of the cuter projects only require photocopies and transfer paper to work.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Useful ideas for recycling art, November 8, 2007
This review is from: Making Crafts from Your Kids' Art (Paperback)
Like most mothers I have art put away that is gradually fading / disintegrating and this book provides ideas of ways to reuse the motifs from the art in more permanent ways. To be honest, as the previous reviewer said, some of the projects do require a lot of tools etc (and more time and space to make than I currently have), but the less complex projects are wonderful.

It also has a useful section at the beginning about ways to display art a couple of which we are now looking at using at our pre-school.

I bought this book after borrowing and reborrowing our library's copy. I know I will use many of the simpler ideas out of it both for us and for presents for the extended family (love me, love my kids' art *g*).
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