The holidays are fast approaching, and it’s time to dig out that bag of tricks to keep the kids occupied and help them get into the holiday spirit.
Whether your children want to help festoon your home with fun and fanciful decorations or they’ve decided to make gifts for all the family, there’s a wealth of books to help you and them get ready for holidays.
DIY Crafts Guide For Kids
This Kindle edition has lots of crafts for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas. Not only does this book provide all the necessary instructions to make your favorite holiday crafts, but it also provides a little information and tips about each of the holidays.
Not only will the kids have fun making decorations and gifts, but they’ll learn a little about their favorite holidays and the lore that surrounds them.
Easy-to-Do Holiday Crafts
This spiral-bound book has tons of simple crafts from Valentine’s Day to Christmas. Your crafty child will have big fun creating decorations, favors and gifts for every holiday.
Pick up low cost items like felt, pipe cleaners, colored paper and bits of ribbon. Open the book, and you’re sure to find a crafty creation your kids will love. It’s perfect for the pre-school and elementary crowd.
Christmas Crafts For Kids
This book is a perfect way to help you make memories for yourself and your children. Creating special ornaments for the family Christmas tree is an activity every child enjoys and with this volume, your kids will have a ton of new ornaments to decorate your tree.
The book has step-by-step instructions and plenty of photos so the kids can see exactly what to do. The supplies are easily found around the home or at the dollar store and are inexpensive or recycled from around the house.
Kids Make Christmas
Kids Make Christmas: Over 40 Kids’ Craft Projects For Christmas by Pia Deges ISBN-10: 1446303845
This is a great book for kids of all ages. There’s crafts for the littlest artist and fun things for bigger kids, too.
A number of the crafts use templates and the author has included those templates for you to copy and use. There’s embellished t-shirts, magnets, salt dough crafts and even some sweet treats. Some crafts are just right for the kids to complete themselves while other require a little adult supervision. Your children will be enchanted with the fun and colorful projects they’ll make for family, friends and themselves.
Holiday Kid Concoctions
The Ultimate Book of Holiday Kid Concoctions by Danita Thomas and John E. Thomas ISBN-10: 0966108833
This book has been around for a while and it still has a wealth of fun for every season. Your kids will enjoy decorating for each holiday and creating fun and inventive concoctions with simple things you’ll find around the house or at a craft supply store.
The book also gives kids a taste of other cultures and how each celebrates different holidays in their own unique styles. There are crafts for preschoolers right on up to the biggest kid in the family – you!
