Mix and Match Animal Book

This is a fun activity to make with or for your children. I was thumbing through some craft books (specifically Step-by-Step Crafts for Children published by Kingfisher) and saw this idea. I simplified it a little, but the sky is the limit.

First I found some free clipart pictures of animals. I selected ones of similar sizes.

 Next I cut each one to the same size. (I chose 5" squares.)

I glued each picture to colorful cardstock that was a little larger than the pictures. Then I cut the pictures in half as shown here.

.I stapled the pictures inside the cover and then used a type of duct tape to cover the staples.

This would be very fun to do with family photographs or with pictures the children color.
Have fun!

Craft books from long ago

I came across some old friends while cleaning the other day. Craft books! It is interesting to see what was 'in' 20 years ago... and what we were making here at the Wayward house.

 This was one of my favorites. It still had some bookmarks in it. It is created by a mom and her daughters. They had a TV show and are the creators of Aleene's glue products.
This was one craft that I loved from Aleene. It looks like burnished metal but was really just brown paper bags, glue, and gold paint. I made lots of the angels on the right.

They were NOT wayward.

I found several craft books for kids. This one had Jaime's name it and was purchased at the grade school book fair in 1993.

We made lots of little tiny dolls using this angel pin pattern. I even found a couple of them in my tin of floss. They are probably 15 years old. We liked making these a lot.

 

Jaime made this wreath for her teachers one year.

We liked a few crafts in this book but nothing stood out specifically.

Last I found this one and one of the things we made from it.

But all in all, I would say that we didn't really make a lot of the crafts in the books. I like to look at them, but don't actually make lots of crafts from them. Why????

Now crafters or craft-lookers probably use the internet in place of books more.

What about you? Do you buy craft books? Can you trace your crafting history in your books?

Are you a looker or a doer?

Hmmm.