A Fun Little Craft Book for Children!I recently discovered Kumon books and I am so glad I found them! They are really so wonderful; every child should be given these books to have creative fun! LET’S STICKER AND PASTE is part of the Kumon First Steps series, designed for ages 2 and up. I am using these with my son who is 8 yrs. old, and he also is using the Kumon books for older children, and he loves them all! Some children are slower to learn skills of cutting and pasting, holding pencils, etc. These Kumon books are fun and gentle ways to help children develop these skills.LET’S STICKER AND PASTE is a very fun book containing 39 projects. We have worked through most of them. Projects 1-16 are double sided and involve using the enclosed stickers to finish the project. Projects 1-6 have the child freely use the stickers to make a playground scene, pasture scene, bugs on leaves, birds in the sky, a safari scene, fish in an aquarium, etc. Two projects have the child use stickers to dress the boy for winter play, and to decorate the girls apron. And the remaining have stickers the child places at a certain place to cover over the white area on the carrot, apple, orange, cucumber, etc. This is good preparation for being careful and learning correct placement. Projects 17 on use cut outs (parent cuts the objects out) for the child to place and glue onto the picture. I recommend using a glue stick or, our favorite, a ZIG brand glue pen. It’s smaller applicator makes applying glue so easy for the child. We bought ours at Walmart in the scrapbooking department. Projects 17 on are printed on one side of the page, and involve the child pasting parts over a watermelon, the face on a horse or fox, the nose on a koala, the beak on the duck, the eyes, nose, and mouth on a panda and pig, etc. Some include 3-D type glue ons, such as a strip that sticks out to be the monkey or hippo’s mouth, or the chick’s beak sticks out. These are all very simple, and the results are statisfying! Projects 30 and 31 have the child gluing candles and decorations on a cake, or toys into the toy box. Pages 33-37 have the child glue the missing half on the frog, the plane, or they have 2-4 pieces to glue on like putting the missing squares in to finish the picture. And these are pictures of fire trucks, diggers, boats, etc. The last 2 projects are letting the child dab glue over the sky and sprinking on small cut out squares (the parent cuts these) to make snow falling on the snowman, or pink squares will be blossoms on the cherry tree. This book is lots and lots of fun that will provide parents and children with meaningful time spent together. It would make a great gift (along with a glue pen!) for the child who seems to have everything. I also recommend the other 3 books in this series: LET’S CUT PAPER, LET’S COLOR, and LET’S FOLD. I am reviewing them all, plus the other Kumon books. Enjoy!
