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Time to Create - Paperback

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$17.47 $24.95 In stock

Category: Art

Forget stuffy, structured craft activities; your child needs time to create!



Rather than merely teaching your child to name colors and to hold a pencil, the hands-on process art experiences in

Time to Create

encourage discovery through a variety of art media, including drawing, painting, print making, collage, and sculpture.



With ideas for encouraging creativity, advice for choosing the right art project, and suggestions for minimizing the mess, you and your child will be on your way to fun-to-do art explorations in no time!



Christie Burnett is the writer and founder of the popular Australian parenting blog

Childhood 101

. She has worked as an early childhood educator for many years and is the mother of two young girls.

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Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 3 reviews)

Evelyn K. ★★★★★

After a few sessions of process art from this book, my son's focus and creativity have really taken off. I love that the activities are open-ended, not telling him what the final picture should look like.

Jason ★★★★★

My daughter keeps grabbing this book off the shelf before I can even set out the paint—the process art ideas feel less like instructions and more like invitations to explore. The hands-on focus on mixing colors and textures has relaxed my worries about making a mess.

Timothy V. ★★★★★

My three-year-old actually sat still for twenty minutes with the hands-on process art ideas in this book, which never happens with structured crafts. The focus on exploration over naming colors or pencil grip is exactly what we needed.