Craft Lab for Kids: 52 DIY Projects to Inspire, Excite, and Empower Kids to Create Useful, Beautiful Handmade Goods (Volume 25)

We love the step by step guidelines and great assortment of projects. The projects are excellently designed to be interesting for kids. My six year old appreciates all of the ideas and inspiration. I appreciate that these are projects that I would actually like to keep.

The Craft Lab for Kids: 52 DIY Projects is a great craft book for kids 8 and up. The crafts vary in difficulty, with many being easy enough for older kids to complete on their own. The activities are well laid out with clear instructions, photos demonstrating steps when needed, and "Now Try This" suggestions to make variations on crafts, in case you wanted to add a few embellishments or wanted to try something a little bit "extra". The book is broken up into seven chapters including: 1. Spruce Up Your Stuff - Repurposing household items 2. Express Yourself - Customizing items to wear, carry, or to store things in 3. Take Care of Yourself - Bath and Personal Care Crafts 4. Kids Just Wanna Have Fun - Party decor ideas 5. Classic Crafts with a Twist - Variations on items like lanyards, zipper pulls, and pressed flowers. 6. 15 Minute Makes - Quick crafts that take little time 7. Crafting with Kindness - Crafts you can gift to others, including pets The crafts included didn't require any difficult to find items and for the most part, could be easily completed in a single afternoon. The kids enjoyed the variety and while there wasn't anything that was particularly new or revolutionary in the book, it was variations and layouts were appealing enough for the kids visit the book several times. Overall, this is a good book if you're looking for something crafting for your kids to do that take a little effort, but results in something pretty cool.

I've wanted to find some craft projects to do with my grandson but hadn't found any books that had the kind of variety I was looking for until I came across "Craft Lab for Kids." There is a great variety of projects, with all different kinds of materials. There are great photos of the tools and instructions as well as the finished project so you know what you're trying to do. A lot of the materials used are really easy to obtain and I already have a lot of things around the house. I love the nature crafts especially. I really like that this book doesn't dumb-down the instructions too. It's a really nice book to introduce kids to how crafting can include such a wide variety of things, from super easy to things that take a little more concentration.

Quarry Books and NetGalley provided me with an electronic copy of Craft Lab for Kids: 52 DIY Projects to Inspire, Excite, and Empower Kids to Create Useful, Beautiful Handmade Goods. I was under no obligation to review this craft book and my opinion is freely given. After a short introduction and a list of essential tools or materials, the book goes right into crafting. The pages are very colorful and the step-by-step instructions will be easy for children to follow. Some of the crafts require supervision, but there is enough here that children can do on their own that makes the book worthwhile. The different sections are listed below with the standout crafts in each. Spruce Up Your Stuff (reimagining things kids already own): Patchwork Guitar or Ukulele Strap; Marbled Paper Notecards Express Yourself: Dip-Dyed Canvas Backpack; Hidden-Meaning Fabric Scrap Bracelet Take Care of You: Fizzy Bath Bombs; DIY Stress Balls Kids Just Wanna Have Fun: Party Poppers; Wonderful Wands Classic Crafts With A Twist: T-Shirt "Yarn" Braided Lanyards; Pressed Flower Stickers 15-Minute Makes: T-Shirt Tote Bags Crafting With Kindness: No-Sew Fringed Pet Blankets; Apple Backyard Bird feeder Overall, Craft Lab for Kids is a great crafting book, which would make a perfect gift for kids.

This is a perfect book for kids to use alone or with some supervision. However, as an adult, I found it inspirational! It gives you lots of ideas of things to do as a fun little one-time project or even something that you can learn and really get into as time goes by. If I had seen this in a book store, I would have absolutely drooled over every section, imagining how I would use it to have fun with grandchildren or make gifts and decorations for holidays or any time! I totally recommend this book! Purchase one for yourself and one for a friend.

A craft book that is geared for kids with an adult supervisor. There are 52 projects that include designs to wear, decorate and give to others. The tried and true crafts have been updated giving them a chance to show off their style. Some of the crafts are just fun and will made me laugh. Other crafts have the potential to be given as gifts to others. Each craft has a complete list of materials needed, excellent photos that show step by step instructions as well as an example of the finished craft. The projects are open ended so that you could do the craft more than once and get a different “ending” of it. It’s an excellent book for kids and adults. Adults would have fun doing them too! Disclaimer: I received an arc of this book from the author/publisher from NetGalley. I wasn’t obligated to write a favorable review or any review at all. The opinions expressed are strictly my own.

Some of the crafts in this book bring back menories of my elementary school art class. It was one of my favorites. This book includes some classic crafts that I also made there such as the wall weaving, the bottle vase, and the mini God's eyes. Even though this is for kids, adults and people of any age can have fun making some of the things in this book. The full color illustrations show you exactly what you are to be doing and what your project's progress is supposed to look like. Even better it uses recycled and upcycled materials too, so you are helping the environment and your/your parents' budget too! Making high quality, fun crafts projects and getting creative should not always have to be expensive. This would be good for doing projects for scouts, church or school too. Thumbs up.

If you are looking for crafts for kids, check out Craft Lab for Kids by Stephanie Corfee. Parents, teachers, librarians, and youth workers are always looking for new ideas for activities to do with kids. Craft Lab for Kids has over 50 craft ideas that would work well in a home or organized youth activity situation. Some of the projects are easy and require materials readily available. Other projects are a little harder and require more specialized materials. While I have not yet made any of the crafts, the instructions appear to be easy to understand and the photographs which illustrate the book help readers create the crafts. Craft Lab for Kids would be a great addition to the craft section of a k-12 Christian school library. I received a complimentary copy of Craft Lab for Kids. This is my honest review.