Easy-to-follow directions and color photos show young craft makers how to create frightfully funny decorations, pumpkins, gifts, masks, costumes, and so much more. All of the crafts are made of recyclable materials and everyday items found around the house.

Fall & Halloween Decoration
Soft Sculpture Pumpkin
excerpted from"Crafts for All Seasons"
by Kathy Ross
make a lovely pumpkin from old panty hose
This is a lovely pumpkin craft comes from Kathy Ross' book, "Crafts for all Seasons" that you can make out of old pantyhose and some fiberfill.
You can make it as a nice fall craft or you can modify it for Halloween by adding a face.

Cat Party Favors
This week's Craft of the Week is brought to us from the popular activity book by Willie Ripple author of Halloween School Parties. Willie's book not only has hundreds of Halloween crafts but also includes ideas for foods, games, and other activities to celebrate Halloween. Cat Favors can easily be made by children who are 4 and older. They make terrific bookmarks and are a great activity for the kids.

Family Fun Crafts:
500 Creative Activities for You and Your Kids
by Deanna F. Cook

also see:
Craft-of-the-Week
The perfect resource for busy families in search of creative and exciting ways to turn free time into fun family time, Disney's FamilyFun Crafts nurtures a child's creativity through painting, drawing, paper crafts, kitchen crafts, nature crafts, homemade toys, and much more. Color illustrations.

50 Nifty Paper Crafts
by Holly Hebert and Eve Guianan (Illustrator)

Review by Sue Spataro suespa@caro.net
is full of terrific paper projects for kids. This wonderful paper craft book includes instructions for assorted projects like African beauty beads, paper dolls, and fans. The reading level of this book is just fine for nine year olds and older.

365 Days of Creative Play:
For Children 2 Yrs. & Up
by Judith Gray, Sheila Ellison


365 Days of Creative Play is a collection of indoor and outdoor activities that will encourage your child's imagination, growth and problem-solving skills

Meet the authors:
A Year of Scrapbooking
by Debbie Janasak, Anna Swinney
hosted by Sue Spataro
see the interview with authors Debbie & Anna
It has a huge variety of projects, with technical tips and new ideas mingled through it. The language and instructions are clear and the photographed examples are creative and inspiring, yet achievable for anybody. At the end, there is a very detailed resources list so you can easily locate any of the products they have used. Organized by the calendar year, this book contains hundreds of ideas and project themes for each month- from birthday and wedding albums to holiday and special event scrapbook pages.  Debbie and Anna include tips on improving the quality of photographs and creative ideas for cropping and layout.  The design and technique tips are in an easy-to-follow approach and all ideas  include step by step instructions and pictures. This is a wonderful book to turn your valuable photographs into treasured heirlooms!