Kids' Crazy Concoctions: 50 Mysterious Mixtures for Art & Craft Fun

by Jill Frankel Hauser

o enjoy endless hours of creative art and craft inspiration. The author captures the imagination of kids of all ages in creative play filled with tangible results. Fun is the theme with lots of learning along the way.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0913589810
• ISBN13: 9780913589816
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Williamson Publishing Company
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 11.0" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 3 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Very Good Book

Hello, I am the author of the Kid Concoctions Book series and I think that this book series is wonderful! The fact that is has different projects than the Kid Concoctions series makes it a great book to own in addition to the Kid Concoctions Book series. Which book came first really doesen't matter, our first book was published in 1997 and was based on our Famous Kid Concoctions Video series that was released in 1989. Both book series are great rescources for parents and teachers. In fact, we would love to have the author of this series as a guest on our new national TV series. Happy Concocting!!

This was published LONG before the PBS book!

I am about to order this book because I have others from the series and it looks great. I started to skim the reviews just to make sure it was going to be as good as all the other books I have from this publisher which are fantastic -- and I came across a bunch of angry reviews from people claiming this book to be a rip off!! :0 I have seen the PBS show these people are refering to - and it too is very good. However, I am very upset to see negative reviews of this book -- just because people *thought* they were ordering the PBS series book. The books they were looking for published in 2000+ The book the are *claiming* to be a *rip off* was published in 1998 -- and others in the series, long before that!!! If you order this book, you will find excellent projects I am sure. It will not be the projects from the PBS show -- but that is NOT because this book is a rip off!

Awesome resource

I use this book both with my kids at home and in my classroom. I love that the recipes allow children to be so creative. Generic suggestions allow the kids to learn art techniques, then apply them their way. My kids produce projects that they are proud of because they are truly their own.

Great Basic Book of art/craft recipes

This is a great basic book of art and craft recipes. I checked it out of the library after seeing it at a friend's house, and now I want my own copy. Besides recipes, project ideas, notes on early art and art materials and bits of art history are included.Some of the other reviewers have been a little unfair, slamming the book or the publisher for their not knowing what they had ordered. This book is not a knock off or trying to capitalize on something else. The original copyright of this book, as in the old library book I have in my hands, is 1995 -- which would keep it from being a knock off by the publisher or author. On top of that, if you go to the PBS website, and search for Kids' Concoctions, this is the book that shows up.

LOTS of ideas and recipes for art materials.

I'm an elementary science teacher, and I used this book for an after school workshop that I held with the art teacher. The kids loved it. They really enjoyed making their own art materials, and then getting the chance to use them. The book has recipes for all sorts of materials like paints, clay, and glue. But it doesn't stop there. It also has all sorts of suggestions for projects to do with the materials you make. The only downside about the book is that it didn't put as much emphasis on the science of making the art materials as it could have. Even more information about how each ingredient contributes to the finished product, and more explicit encouragement to experiment with the amounts and types of ingredients would really help kids understand the "science of art".