Storytime Crafts for Kids

Rating:
Summary: For mature audiences only
Review: While these projects are certainly quite attractive and book-related, they are not particularly useful for librarians and teachers with limited budgets and prep time. The author states in the introduction that they were planned for "ten participants between the ages of four and ten" and cost "between twenty and thirty dollars". The projects use a lot of craft store materials in addition to wire cutters and hammer and nails. I doubt that the parents of my story time kids would be comfortable with them wielding implements of that nature! It does include detailed supplies list-just enough for the ten intended participants, who would have to be pretty mature to produce most of these "with only minimal help". Older children (or even adults)with artistic abilities will find much to like here, however.

Rating:
Summary: For mature audiences
Review: While these volume two projects are again attractive and book-related, they are not particularly useful for librarians and teachers with limited budgets and prep time. The author states in the introduction that they were planned for "ten participants between the ages of four and ten" and cost "between twenty and thirty dollars". The projects use a lot of craft store materials in addition to tapestry needles and hammer and nails. I doubt that the parents of my story time kids would be comfortable with them wielding implements of that nature! It does include detailed supplies list-just enough for the ten intended participants, who would have to be pretty mature to produce most of these "with only minimal help". For kids in the upper age range these may work just fine, and adults may enjoy quite a few of them too. There is a "Blind Mice Puppet" project that is a dead-ringer for "Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse"! Appended with project patterns, which are mostly full-size, and macrame diagrams.