Crafty Kids: Fun Projects for You and Your Toddler

My 3 yr old daughter, my mom and I have a great time doing the craft projects in this book. The projects are fun, easy and colorful!

This book has wonderful ideas. Pictures are clear and explanatory, and the crafts are very simple, and nice for non-crafty moms who can choose a quick art project without mess, or do the messy painting when there's time. There is mom-work required with 2-year olds. I do cutting pieces, completing projects at times, but my kids learn from watching it, and when I prep at night, than it's easy to keep their attention on simply gluing their pieces, and than I have them color the finished products. My twins are proud to see their flowers, duck ponds, rockets...up on the wall, and say,"that's what I did", and they ask to do more art projects. Best thing is how cheap crafts can be! paper plates, toilet tubes, construction and scrapbook paper, scissors,glue, aluminim foil...if you're crafty, some crafts in this book aren't so unique and may be too simple/common sense, but these crafts helped me get back to basics, and I liked following step-by-step,b/c otherwise, I'd put off doing crafts or I'd repeat the common crafts from my childhood, which is limiting.

My 3 year old loves "arts and crafts" but other craft books I have looked at (like Rosie O'Donnell's book) have projects far too complicated for my young kids. These projects are relatively simple. If you are creative on your own, you would likely find this book too basic. I am not, however, that creative and we love looking through this book for easy and fun projects that can be completed within his attention span. On other plus -- the projects are great for boys since it includes rocketships and monster trucks. Some other books are too "girly" for my boy.