Continuing on our theme of National Craft Month, we are reviewing another wonderful craft book, 50 Animal Crafts for Little Kids by Georgina Bomer. This book is available in now out of print.
When Hazel was home sick the other day (again) she and I looked through the book. I asked her which craft she wanted to do, and she basically picked all of them. I made her choose a few favorites. Her favorite was the swimming duck craft. We had to do that one as well as a couple more. The book is divided into six sections of crafts plus an introduction with supplies to have on hand and such. I found we had most of the supplies. In the introduction Georgina gives the website she often gets her templates from. This is honestly the only thing missing in the book. I wish she had provided templates but getting to choose your own is also fun for some projects. For the duck we used a duck cookie cutter I recently bought. And yes, the duck does swim across the pond! In the book, the instructions have you painting the plate blue and the white cardstock yellow, but we had a blue plate and yellow cardstock.
We also made the swan craft from the Birds section. I told her we needed to pick some crafts from other sections too, so we did not make the peacock yet.
Next she wanted to do the polar bear craft. Since we had to print this out from the computer (my polar bear drawing skills are not great) we expanded on it.
It is a great book for any parent or teacher of young children. I know we will be trying some of the other crafts in it.
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