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Quick Draw Flip Books Book

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My son is 8. He's addicted to video games. But when he's grounded, he's not allowed to use them. I have despaired of finding any activity that interests him as much as Mario games on the Wii...until his 8th birthday party, when a friend gave him this Quick Flip Books project as a gift. He has spent the last three days working on this, with only brief interludes to go play outside or whatever. Video games have not been touched! He's obsessed with the flip books and I only wish there were more (different) flip book project kits like this one. It's a real winner.

My kids have dabbled in making simple flip books before, so when I saw this, I thought it might spark more creativity. Basically the book has 8 flip books that they have started for you (about 2 x 6 inches each), and you finish it up with your own sketches. Their flip books have nice backgrounds already printed on them, like a frog on a rock, and they give you instructions on where to draw the fly and the frogs tongue. Each book has about 35 pages and it is pretty cool when they get one done. Included are the clips to hold the flip book together and a few little markers to use for coloring. It does not include any blank pages to make your own flip books from scratch, and the paper they use is thicker than regular printing paper. 3x5 card would probably work well.
Still, it is pretty fun, although once you rip out all the flip books, you will have a shell of a book that has a little bit of info in it, but won't be something you want to store.

My 11 year old daughter loved th idea. We had great time when she drew her first book, and she enjoyed showing the ready flip book to her friends.

We were so excited to make these flip books and we LOVE Klutz books. We have several of them. This book however, was not up to Klutz standards. The ideas are clever, and we had lots of fun preparing the book, but when it comes time to flip, it does not work. The clip doesn't really hold well, the pages stick, it falls apart and well, it's supposed to be a flip book. My son (9) was disappointed after putting lots of time and hard work into the art and then the book wouldn't flip. We even tried putting the clip on different sides to make it work, but no dice. Try a different Klutz book, the juggling, the bottle caps and the immaturity books are awesome!

My grandchildren loved making the books. The problem is the clips. They are plastic and two of them arrived broken. We substituted metal clips, but the product should have better clips.