Making Crafts from Your Kids' Art
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Book Overview
Show off every one of your children's cherished artistic masterpieces, and incorporate their creativity into your daily life. From ideas for organization, preservation, and storage to projects for clocks, albums, and enchanted wainscoting, here are dozens of unusual ways to take kids' art to another level. Every inspiring page presents the work of real children, and the crafts come with easy to follow instructions and templates where needed. For something functional and fun, take that pretty picture of flowers your daughter drew, reduce or enlarge it to size, and use transfer material to put the design on a cup and saucer. A family style calendar showcases the illustrations of many children at once; choose drawings that correspond with the season. Make a heart magnetic message board, sparkling wire ornament, stained glass panel, and covers for a phone book. Even knit a child's design onto a sweater. Every time you look at these projects, they'll warm your heart.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1579903681
ISBN13:9781579903688
Release Date:August 2003
Publisher:Lark Books (NC)
Length:128 Pages
Weight:1.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 8.8" x 10.3"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Useful ideas for recycling art
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Like most mothers I have art put away that is gradually fading / disintegrating and this book provides ideas of ways to reuse the motifs from the art in more permanent ways. To be honest, as the previous reviewer said, some of the projects do require a lot of tools etc (and more time and space to make than I currently have), but the less complex projects are wonderful. It also has a useful section at the beginning about ways to display art a couple of which we are now looking at using at our pre-school. I bought this book after borrowing and reborrowing our library's copy. I know I will use many of the simpler ideas out of it both for us and for presents for the extended family (love me, love my kids' art *g*).
Fun and functional ways to display your kids artwork
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Like me, you probably have overflowing boxes of artwork that your kids have proudly brought home from school that you can't bear to throw away. Valerie Van Arsdale Schrader to the rescue with her book MAKING CRAFTS FROM YOUR KIDS ART. From easy to difficult, there is something here for everyone of every crafting level to try. The directions are step-by-step with accompanying photos to show you the original child's art as compared to the finished display product. Some of the projects included are: cup & saucer printed with artwork, a magnetic message board, postcards, a canvas bag print, wrapping paper, tin frame, silk pillow, and even floor throws and wainscoting! Be forewarned that for many of the more involved projects you will need computer access, drills, heavy-duty cutting equipment like hacksaws, and for one, even an electric glass grinder! Fortunately, most of the cuter projects only require photocopies and transfer paper to work.
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