Book Review
Although the craft ideas in Valentine Crafts aren’t anything
new or unique they are good solid ideas. Some of these crafts originate
in the 1800’s and based on old fashioned valentines they will
still be appealing to today’s children because the crafts
involve techniques children are familiar with such as paper folding,
gluing, drawing and coloring. Children are always making homemade
Valentine’s Day cards so this book is perfect for that. Not
only does this book contain a number of fun crafts for kids there
is a Hearts All in a Row game as well as several Valentine’s
Day recipes to make. I would recommend it for school age children
because of some of the techniques used (i.e. use of a compass, cutting
fabric, tracing with and transferring images with tracing paper
and shaping paper clips into hearts) might be too advanced for younger
children.
The pages of Valentine Crafts are very cluttered with the images
used in making the crafts and combined with the use of only red,
black and white for the colors on the pages it is hard to look at
them for very long. The size of the book is the reason for this.
If the pages were a bit bigger, the images could be spaced a bit
further apart and not look so packed. Some of the images were used
on several pages in the book where they weren’t needed for
the particular craft (i.e. the Heart Necklace made of paper clips),
which contributed to the clutter and confusion on that page because
the images crowded the diagrams explaining how to make the necklace.
What I did like is that although some of the pages were crowded
with images, the diagrams for the paper folding were very clear
and children would have no problems following these instructions. |
