Be prepared for the next rainy day with a delightful new handbook of activities, “Martha Stewart’s Favorite Crafts For Kids: 175 Projects for Kids of All Ages to Create, Build, Design, Explore, and Share.” These tasks are fun to make and practical, too, resulting in things kids can give as gifts, wear, decorate, or play with after they make ’em. Lots of photographs and precise directions make it easy for kids to achieve craft nirvana. The pages are filled with enriching tasks, such as how to design and sew an original stuffed animal; create a dog from recycled tin cans (pictured); or make a snow globe, musical instruments, papier-mache UFOs, superhero costumes, and more.
The “Experiment and Explore” chapter includes crafts with a scientific-spin, like how to make a thaumatrope, a “wonder turner” that creates the illusion of two images merging into one when you spin the handle.
And just in time for summer vacation, the book proposes a variety of craftastic ways to store and display souvenirs from your travels and staycations in the “Keep It Together” chapter.
“Martha Stewart’s Favorite Crafts For Kids: 175 Projects for Kids of All Ages to Create, Build, Design, Explore, and Share” by the Editors of Martha Stewart Living (Potter Craft, $24.99), www.barnesandnoble.com.
