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Side by Side: 20 Collaborative Projects for Crafting with Your Kids
Crafting is always more fun and more meaningful when it’s shared with those you love. Discover the joy of working alongside your child while creating arts and crafts that inspire. With these twenty whimsical projects in a variety of mediums, you and your child will find fun ways to work collaboratively and independently—together on the same project, or side by side on related projects. Create Giant Newspaper Snowflakes that take traditional paper snowflakes to magical new levels. Create surprising monoprints that take glitter glue to new heights. Explore the versatility of embroidery with a child-friendly version that uses a leaf as the canvas and a more advanced version that uses a child’s drawing for stitching inspiration. Get out in the garden and plant a Living Willow Teepee that will be a perfect playhouse and retreat for years to come.
Some of life’s best moments are spent simply doing things in the presence of the ones we love, not necessarily doing the same thing together, but being together and working side by side. The craft projects in this book will help you to create just those moments with your child.
Some of life’s best moments are spent simply doing things in the presence of the ones we love, not necessarily doing the same thing together, but being together and working side by side. The craft projects in this book will help you to create just those moments with your child.
192 pages, Paperback
First published August 14, 2012
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October 18, 2012
Side by Side: 20 Collaborative Projects for Crafting With Your Kids is focused on artistic projects you can either do with your children or projects you can set up for your children to do while you do something similar.
The crafts remind me of the material in my vintage craft book collection, specifically late 60s- mid 70s books, in a very good way. These are very natural, open crafts that give children a lot of room to express themselves and to enjoy nature. This book contains monoprints, stamping, embroidery, some hand sewing and other projects, all of them fairly simple with lots of room for a child's natural expression. The author also includes a lot of tips on how to set it up and make the project as much fun as possible. Some of them are very outdoorsy, natural crafts, others are perfect for a rainy afternoon. All of them are good ideas for spending time with a child and encouraging their artistic vision and creativity.
The first chapter, Collaborators is projects you do with your children. Some of them you set up the project and provide some guidance, such as the giant paper snowflakes, others like doll from a drawing will use different skills from both you and your child. All of the projects have a strong emphasis on the creativity of the child.
Companion Projects are worked side by side, you can do one project and offer help as needed to the project they are doing. These include working with succulents to make a terrarium and a wreath, or a hand-sewn necklace for a child to make a simple, elegant crocheted lariat for an adult to make.
Family Field Trips encourages kids to think of the world as a space to play and create. The Seed Self-Portrait is a great group project, and I'm absolutely charmed by the living willow playhouse.
The projects have good instructions with great tips for doing them with children. The author is enthused and knowledgeable. It's a wonderful book with projects that have a strong focus on creativity and less focus on perfection. It's about quality time and building memories and confidence.
My teenage daughter loves it as well, and we've been doing side by side crafting her entire life.
[The book reviewed was provided to me at no cost for the purposes of review. I received no other compensation, and my review is my honest opinion of the product.]
The crafts remind me of the material in my vintage craft book collection, specifically late 60s- mid 70s books, in a very good way. These are very natural, open crafts that give children a lot of room to express themselves and to enjoy nature. This book contains monoprints, stamping, embroidery, some hand sewing and other projects, all of them fairly simple with lots of room for a child's natural expression. The author also includes a lot of tips on how to set it up and make the project as much fun as possible. Some of them are very outdoorsy, natural crafts, others are perfect for a rainy afternoon. All of them are good ideas for spending time with a child and encouraging their artistic vision and creativity.
The first chapter, Collaborators is projects you do with your children. Some of them you set up the project and provide some guidance, such as the giant paper snowflakes, others like doll from a drawing will use different skills from both you and your child. All of the projects have a strong emphasis on the creativity of the child.
Companion Projects are worked side by side, you can do one project and offer help as needed to the project they are doing. These include working with succulents to make a terrarium and a wreath, or a hand-sewn necklace for a child to make a simple, elegant crocheted lariat for an adult to make.
Family Field Trips encourages kids to think of the world as a space to play and create. The Seed Self-Portrait is a great group project, and I'm absolutely charmed by the living willow playhouse.
The projects have good instructions with great tips for doing them with children. The author is enthused and knowledgeable. It's a wonderful book with projects that have a strong focus on creativity and less focus on perfection. It's about quality time and building memories and confidence.
My teenage daughter loves it as well, and we've been doing side by side crafting her entire life.
[The book reviewed was provided to me at no cost for the purposes of review. I received no other compensation, and my review is my honest opinion of the product.]
June 12, 2013
It was a bit granola-ish for me. Just left me wanting more--sorry, cannot quite put my finger on it--and chalk me up as selfish, or shallow, and it frustrates me that I cannot quite figure out why this book didn't leave me all dazzled and WOW! But there it is. Not my cup of tea, though I have done some of these type of crafts before. *sigh*
June 1, 2016
not very impressed, can find better on pintrest
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