Book Review - Outdoor Crafts

 

 In honour of Earth Day (April 22nd) Dorling Kindersley have put together a fantastic selection of titles that will help you stop and appreciate the world around us. The books in this "Earthly Pleasures Boutique"  are currently available at 30% off  and cover books for children and for adults. One of these books is Outdoor Crafts and we were sent a copy for review.

The best endorsement for this book is not what I can write about it but what I can show you. This is what our 5 year-old daughter thought of the book. When I went to

get the book off the shelf to take some pictures for the review, it was gone and this is where I found it:

 and this is what happened when I tried to take it back for review!



 
So as you can see, this was a very popular one in our house. I only managed to get the book back by promising to do the butterfly, dazzling decorations craft with Evey & Gabriel right away - The pictures of our crafting efforts are at the end of this post, because right now I want to tell you about the book.

Outdoor Crafts from Dorling Kindersley is a collection of fun projects that children can make and do outside - some projects are suitable for kiddos on their own, others need adult supervision & input.



 Outdoor Crafts incorporates natural materials that children can find around the house, in the recycling,  in their backyard, or that they've grown themselves in a garden or pot.

This book is divided into three sections — Make It, Cook It, and Create It. Interspersed among these elements there are also pages about how plants grow, which plants to grow for a fragrant garden or a container garden, bug quizzes and much more.

In Make It you & the kiddos can create labels for the garden, decorate flower pots, and build a "Garden Buddy" from tin cans, plastic cups and any other assorted items you might find around the house or in the recycling. There are 10 projects in this section but many of them - such as the dazzling decorations craft can be adapted in any number of ways.



 

In Cook It, children can get recipes for herb and cheese muffins, blueberry cheesecake in a glass, lemon ices and more using the crops from the garden. I particularly liked  the herb tea made from the herb garden planted in a suitcase with flags of the world to denote where each herb came from.

And finally in Create It, you can learn how to make a Leaf Stepping Stone path in the garden, make paper from corn husks  and so much more.



 

In Outdoor Crafts the projects are complete with the easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step photography that are Dorling Kindersley's trade mark. Kids of all ages can take part and create wonderful crafts they'll be proud to display and they don't need a huge garden to, or even any garden at all to enjoy it.

Our "Dazzling Decorations" Craft

Gabriel made a flower

Disclosure: I received free the item(s) mentioned in this post in exchange for my honest review. Regardless ~ All my reviews are my honest and personal opinion. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”.