DK Canada is a great company. They have so many outstanding books for both kids and adults. This month, I’m excited to share with you some of their creative inspiration books – all about making stuff!
My boys and I dug into the brand new Mommy & Me Craft book as soon as it arrived and I let them pick out a craft we could do together one day for fun. There were a lot of great ideas to choose from – knitting dolls, fish windsocks, jet packs, snow globes….. but we ended up picking Rock Painting.
What you need:
- Smooth Rocks (either that you’ve collected or from the craft supply store)
- Acrylic Paint
- Varnish/Mod Podge
- Googly eyes
- Paint Brush
- water/paper towels
What to do:
Let your creative side come out and paint the rocks into whatever you’d like! Bugs, monsters, colourful designs – there’s no limit. Be inspired by the shape of your rock and what you can envision it to be. We had fun making ladybugs, snakes, mice, a monster with a mustache, and just colourful rocks!
I’m loving these craft books by DK – they are so bright, colourful, filled with great photos to show you how to do things, and offer a great wide selection of crafts to try.
The Big Book of Things to Make has instructions on how to make: an urban periscope, glow-in-the-dark Jell-O, balloon shapes, a board game, an erupting volcano, castles, and so much more.
Make-It features crafts to create from trash and recyclables. It’s filled with ideas on how to use paper, plastics, fabrics, and metals. (Paper mache and mobile mirrors, anyone?)
Mommy and Me Start Cooking is from the same line as the craft one we used for our project. It’s new this year and teaches kids about food and how to cook. There are some amazing easy-to-understand illustrations about foods (like the parts of tomato plants, what’s inside an egg, and all about wheat). Foods that you can make from this book are things like pancakes, chicken risotto, pita pizzas, potato fishcakes, and more.
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My kids love tracing paper
Right now, my kids love their scissors. But glue is a close second. We do crafts every.single.day and have for over a year now.
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Felt, they love cutting things out of felt.
Glitter glue and pompoms are tied for favs!
Felt and glue
Beads right now!
We have painted rocks before – SO much fun! Both kids have their own rock gardens that we started last summer.
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My oldest (6) loves painting rocks! Right now the kids’ favourite thing in the craft cupboard is the glitter glue.
Crayons! But my son is only 2 lol. He is fascinated by safety scissors, but his hands aren’t big enough yet.
Right now my daughter is into painting. Even when it’s not time to paint, she is carrying around a spare paintbrush.
My boys love glitter glue and googly eyes!
Paints for sure….lol!
Pipe cleaners for some reason, maybe because they can be bent into so many different things.
scissors and glue sticks 🙂
He loves his markers and glitter glue 🙂
Thank you!
Dawn
We love painting rocks!
My son loves cutting coloured paper and gluing them onto cardboard to make his own mosaics.
Right now my daughters favourite thing in her craft box is glitter and stickers
Right now, my little guys are into stickers, glue, finger paints and safety scissors.
safety sissors
Definitely paint. My son loves to paint!
Gluing anything to anything else is always a hit at our house!
My kids love paint
thanks