Junior Maker: Experiments to Try, Crafts to Create, and Lots to Learn!

by D.K. Publishing

Arts and crafts experiments to try at home. Learn, play, and craft with this fantastic activity-packed book that will test and expand your creativity.

This kids' arts and crafts book will teach and engage your little creator in 20 interactive activities, crafts, and experiments carefully designed to complement what children are learning at school. 


There is so much to do, and even more to learn with  Junior Maker . This interactive book encourages hands-on play through carefully designed experiments that complement what children are taught in school. Prepare to get down, messy, and have heaps of fun while learning – perfect for kids aged 6 – 8.

Specific step-by-step instructions and visuals help young readers and makers explore subjects such as space, nature, history, animals, and science. Crafting ideas appear next to excellent illustrations and photographs and fun fact informative text that is easy to read. What looks like inspirational material helps to teach children these important topics and make it exciting for them. 

Every fun educational experiment is based around basic household items and inexpensive and easy-to-find art supplies to keep things simple. Little creators can expect to use familiar things like buttons and marshmallows to map our solar system, make a bottle jetpack while learning about gravity, design a rain gauge to measure rainfall, and much more. 

Make, Do, Learn And Impress Your Friends With Fun Experiments! 

Have fun while learning by embarking on a journey through history, nature, and science! Make a Roman soldier's shield, experiment with a chemical reaction that blows up a balloon, or look at the stars and explore the solar system. This book combines fun and learning together to create a full educational experience. With  Junior Maker,  any child can improve their understanding of things to help them inside and out of the classroom.

Whether your child is an aspiring scientist, astronaut, or is merely curious about our great big world,  Junior Maker  will get them thinking, learning, and making. 

Through fun and interactive activities, your little creator will learn

- Space 
- History 
- Nature
- Animals 
- Science

This science book for kids will teach your child about a given subject through interactive activities, crafts, and experiments. Further your knowledge and add to your experiments at home by advancing to our  Makers Lab  book series which will keep the crafting party in your lab going with more exciting science experiments and activities.

Genres: Nonfiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Science, Stem

80 pages, Hardcover

Published July 3, 2018

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Carla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Children have a natural curiosity of the world around them. They want to touch, feel and ask questions. It is so important as parents that we support this and actually encourage this behaviour as it will serve them well in the long run.

Junior Maker is a fantastic resource for parents and children who love to make experiments and ask questions in order to learn more about the world around them. It is roughly letter sized with a hard cover and uses bright, bold illustrations that are appropriate for this age group. It excites them and draws them into the learning.

This book covers important topics like: space, nature, history, animals and science. The alien invasion pages were my own personal favourites! This wide range of topics is age appropriate and uses humours and illustrations to make learning fun (a win win for parents!). The experiments and crafts are easy to follow and contains a full list of what you will need (and most you will find in your own home or maybe even outside. We made a series of stone creatures for our own garden and had a blast creating our little animal friends (although a few of those creatures definitely came from someone's imagination!). Our next craft for this summer? Bird feeders, Roman shields and a lion mosaic!

This is an excellent summer time learning book that both you and your child will have a fantastic time learning and creating together. It gets them away from electronics (a must in the summer) and having fun together as a family.

[Vicki · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has some excellent craft ideas to support learning science. I will bring it in to show my second graders. I will show them the ideas for painting rocks to look like animals because Pleasanton Rocks! I will show them the Grass Haircut idea because growing plants as simple as grass to give haircuts is fun. and I will show them the liquid layer project because I think it's fascinating to see the different densities in liquids. They can look at the other projects on their own.

[Miss Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want to own this. Full of wonderful ideas to make and learn about nature and science. Easy crafts and experiments that all ages could do. Plenty of pictures and easy instructions to follow.
Will be using this for summer reading programs at the library I work at in 2019 :)

[Shana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some very cute ideas in this book. We didn't 'nail' any of them perfectly, but it was a lot of fun trying.

[Great Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

Explore space, nature, history, animals and science with hands-on crafts, activities and experiments that use household items and art supplies to encourage interactivity and play.
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[NayDoubleU · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mehhh

This book was not all what i had expected. Pretty boring and basic. Only giving 2 stars because directions were simple and great illustrations

[Carissa]

My favorite projects in this were the Bird Feeder and the really cool Space Helmet.