Window Art (Crafts) [Spiral-bound]

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Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 2007 | Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: Crafts

This is an all new artwork for an all-new generation of window artists. It is an update to the popular "Window Art Book". You can trace the artwork and fill in the colours - peel up and you have gorgeous window stickers. This new set has new illustrations to trace, a fresh palatte of colours - including sparkly glitter paint - plus two large-scale projects to try. It comes with one bottle of outline paint and five bottles of coloured paint (including two with glitter) and 3 plastic tracing sheets.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Spiral-bound: 48 pages
• Publisher: Klutz (March 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159174167X
• ISBN-13: 978-1591741671
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 8.8 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #816,280 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun, easy, and so cool!!, May 8, 2007

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Kelli Hughes (Austin, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Window Art (Crafts) (Spiral-bound)

I got this for my 6 year old twin daughters, and they LOVE it! I think the age range is really 6 and up, though I've seen 8 and up. It isn't hard at all for my 6 year olds, though. They can do the black outline, but I usually do that part for them because I'm faster and have a steady hand. If you let the outline dry for a couple hours, then the inside is so easy to fill in with the colored paint. I will usually do the outline while they are at school, then they finish it when they get home. The finished product is so cool! It looks like real stained glass! You peel it off the plastic sheet you created it on, then you can stick it to any glass surface (windows, mirrors, glasses, vases, bathroom tiles, shower door, etc...) The book has 100 designs, but you can use any design you want. My girls wanted to do this everyday after school for weeks. We eventually had to order the refill paint pack (which has lots more colors). I even have had fun doing this myself. Mixing colors and making new effects is really fun.

The hardest thing is peeling off designs that have lots of thin edges and details (especially big ones) because the art will stick to itself, and it doesn't come undone. If you put it in the freezer, you can usually get it unstuck, though.

We have thought of so many things we can do with this. We decorated our back door with flowers for spring, and we'll put up fall leaves for fall.
This is a great, easy craft project that has a really neat end product.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Kid craft idea, August 12, 2007

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Cy Korte (Wisconsin Rapids, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Window Art (Crafts) (Spiral-bound)

My grandchildren are 5 & 8 yrs. old and I wanted craft idea and this was excellent in many respects. The pictures are easy to outline and project is one that a varied age group can handle. First: I found best success that I do the outline and let it dry an hour or so before kids did the fill in. This removed a major frustration factor for them and had them asking to do it again and again.

HINTS: plastic page protector sheets work if you have more kids than platic mats supplied - Look for WINDOW ART refils as kids will soon want you to make window pictures from many sources.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great fun, fantastic results . . . but the paint runs out so quickly, July 24, 2008

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This review is from: Window Art (Crafts) (Spiral-bound)

My 8-yr-old daughter loves this book and I enjoy it along with her. It's quick, it's easy, it's fun--and the resulting window clings are quite beautiful. My daughter quickly got the hang of marbleizing the colors and blending colors with a toothpick and has enjoyed experimenting with different techniques.

My only quibble is that this activity really eats up the paint since essentially you build a wall with black outlining paint then fill it in with the colored paint. Expecting to run through paint quickly from reading other reviews, I bought a refill set along with the book at the onset. Still, we used up all our black outlining paint (and much of the rest of the paint as well) in an afternoon, making maybe a dozen clings.

Turns out that we so like making window art and so enjoy the results that I'm regularly buying more paint. In fact, right now we're waiting for the fanatic pack to arrive along with a spare extra large bottle of the black outlining paint. (And I already wish I'd ordered more black than that!)

So, I'd highly recommend this product, but warn that you'll be buying lots and lots of extra paint, so you should probably order a refill or two while you're ordering the book. It's worth it, though, and I can't imagine anybody who wouldn't enjoy making window art so much that they wouldn't want more paint.