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Quick Crafts for Parents Who Think They Hate Craft
If the thought of getting crafty with your children fills you with glittery dread then this book is for you.
Quick Crafts for Parents Who Think They Hate Craft is packed with 40 projects free from crazy origami to lose your cool over and PVA glue to clean out of everyone’s hair. Get creative with your children even if you’re short on time (or patience).
Split into 4 play with it, wear it, spruce it up and useful things, all of the crafts have been created to ensure that play can continue once the crafting is over. Go on a swashbuckling adventure complete with pirate hook and sword, whale watching in the bath or a leafy jungle safari with hairy baboons and rattling snakes.
Crafting doesn’t have to leave you cranky and the floor sticky!
Quick Crafts for Parents Who Think They Hate Craft is packed with 40 projects free from crazy origami to lose your cool over and PVA glue to clean out of everyone’s hair. Get creative with your children even if you’re short on time (or patience).
Split into 4 play with it, wear it, spruce it up and useful things, all of the crafts have been created to ensure that play can continue once the crafting is over. Go on a swashbuckling adventure complete with pirate hook and sword, whale watching in the bath or a leafy jungle safari with hairy baboons and rattling snakes.
Crafting doesn’t have to leave you cranky and the floor sticky!
135 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 8, 2019
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April 29, 2020
My son is an adult now and I have no grand kids but I love crafts and I'm always up for some inspiration so thought I'd have a look through this. There are 40 fun projects to do with your kids here. Most of these can be done in little time and use household items that most of us already have lying around. It's a fun book, colourful and would make a great little book for a present or to pass the time in the current lockdown climate.
December 31, 2020
I manage a children’s shelter and I am constantly looking for activities that my team can do with the kids. When I first picked up this book I semi expected everything in it to be fairly underwhelming and overdone. However, that was not the case at all. This book promises no glitter- a huge plus for adults. The crafts in here are actually doable and the materials are easy enough to find- especially if you are a bit mindful and save some things up like toilet paper rolls and other cardboard. I am definitely considering buying multiple copies for my team.
August 1, 2023
I'm actually a parent who likes crafting, but I don't want a house full of crappy little projects made from garbage. The Japanese-inspired tissue paper windsock fish was my favorite idea from this book. I guess it's personal taste whether the convenience and thriftiness of upcycling junk from your recycle bin is worth having that stuff linger in your home.
(Kudos to the author for 100% excluding glitter. I wish my kids' school would take that hint before their art portfolios destroy another rental house.)
(Kudos to the author for 100% excluding glitter. I wish my kids' school would take that hint before their art portfolios destroy another rental house.)
May 29, 2020
To begin, I’d like to thank Penguin Random House UK for sending me an ARC of this book, and to NetGalley for facilitating. And thank you to Emma Scott-Child for the very detailed instructions!
Firstly, I just want to say that I’m a big reviewer of fiction and I believe this is my first “instructional book” review - however, as I’m currently in lock-down with 2 little girls I thought this was the perfect book for now!
So, if you’re a parent who doesn’t mind the house littered with paper puppets and stick airplanes then this is a great book for you! Step my step instructions with photos to guide you at every single stage. It really is super easy to follow! I would have liked each tutorial to begin with a photo of the finished product though because it would’ve helped me to see what I was hoping to achieve by following the steps. It wasn’t a great hardship to skip to the end of each tutorial first to see what I was making but it would have been easier if the photo was at the start.
I was pleased to see that all of the tutorials involved common craft supplies (no glue guns or specific craft shop items required!)... so that was a win. Also the “no glitter” rule! Absolute godsend!! You should be able to pick this book up and make something - even if your supplies are limited!
However, I’m NOT a parent who enjoys paper puppets and stick planes littered around (my children have a strong NEED to keep every single picture they draw and stick it on the fridge so I’d never be able to sneakily dispose of the paper crafts). So in that sense this book wasn’t greatly helpful to my specific needs, however the chapters on useable things (the pyjama holder, bunting, tassels, teddy capes, silhouette pictures), that will come in handy for up cycling and general party decorations so I’ll be keeping this book purely for that chapter because it really was useful to me and it’s easy to see how these designs could be adapted for other needs.
Those aspects were a definite 5 star for me but the rest of the book was a 3 star (due to it mostly creating clutter rather than useable crafts). So I’ll settle on 4 star to be fair to the book as a whole! Parents who just need to pick up a book for inspiration and easy tutorials will love this book! If you’re looking for more useable crafts then google is still your best bet, but be aware that this route will most always involve glue guns and glitter.
Firstly, I just want to say that I’m a big reviewer of fiction and I believe this is my first “instructional book” review - however, as I’m currently in lock-down with 2 little girls I thought this was the perfect book for now!
So, if you’re a parent who doesn’t mind the house littered with paper puppets and stick airplanes then this is a great book for you! Step my step instructions with photos to guide you at every single stage. It really is super easy to follow! I would have liked each tutorial to begin with a photo of the finished product though because it would’ve helped me to see what I was hoping to achieve by following the steps. It wasn’t a great hardship to skip to the end of each tutorial first to see what I was making but it would have been easier if the photo was at the start.
I was pleased to see that all of the tutorials involved common craft supplies (no glue guns or specific craft shop items required!)... so that was a win. Also the “no glitter” rule! Absolute godsend!! You should be able to pick this book up and make something - even if your supplies are limited!
However, I’m NOT a parent who enjoys paper puppets and stick planes littered around (my children have a strong NEED to keep every single picture they draw and stick it on the fridge so I’d never be able to sneakily dispose of the paper crafts). So in that sense this book wasn’t greatly helpful to my specific needs, however the chapters on useable things (the pyjama holder, bunting, tassels, teddy capes, silhouette pictures), that will come in handy for up cycling and general party decorations so I’ll be keeping this book purely for that chapter because it really was useful to me and it’s easy to see how these designs could be adapted for other needs.
Those aspects were a definite 5 star for me but the rest of the book was a 3 star (due to it mostly creating clutter rather than useable crafts). So I’ll settle on 4 star to be fair to the book as a whole! Parents who just need to pick up a book for inspiration and easy tutorials will love this book! If you’re looking for more useable crafts then google is still your best bet, but be aware that this route will most always involve glue guns and glitter.
July 27, 2020
I don’t actually hate crafts, but wanted a quick option for things, when I want to do or create, with Ada, but don’t have a lot of time to do it or plan. This book gives you not only fast options, but also some ideas you may not have done before. I really think a lot of families will love this!
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