The Grown-Up's Guide to Painting with Kids

The Grown Ups Guide to painting with kids is easy to follow with clear instructions on how to do pour painting that is suitable for even little hands

AUTHOR

Vicki Manning has a love of crafting and creating original ideas for children friendly craft projects. She currently lives in Oxfordshire with her family. Vicki posts regular activities on her Instagram account @howweplayandlearn, where she posts daily crafting activities for kids and adults to do together.

WHO IS THE TARGET AUDIENCE?

This book is for parents, care givers, teachers, extended family members or anyone who wishes to entertain, educate or just have fun with crafts and kids.

SYNOPSIS

The Grown-Up’s Guide to Crafting with Kids is the debut work of Vicki Manning. The initial impression from the book cover is this is an exciting craft guide. The colorful exterior with bright hues and interesting projects grabs the viewer immediately and provides for a pleasant experience. I couldn’t wait to open the book and view the 25 craft ideas.

Manning’s craft guide is intended for young children and their caregivers or educators and it shows. The images are colorful and interesting. It isn’t hard to image a child excitedly anticipating creating one of the many crafting ideas.

The book begins with a brief introduction followed by a getting started section. There is a dual page spread that explains the necessary items required for creating the enclosed craft ideas. All of the required items are kid friendly and safe to use with proper supervision.

Manning provides us with a wide range of original and unique suggestions for art creation, such as:

Nature

Around the home

Clay robots

Pom-pom ice-cream cones

Sun printing

Treasure boxes

Wax-resist bookmarks

And much more

The pages are laid out in window style accompanied by brief extracts describing methods and helpful advice. Manning has been careful to suggest ideas that use easily accessible tools and materials. My favorite craft was the paper mache rocket. Although I have to admit, I love the home made bookmarks. The bookmarks are quick, cute, practical, and even young children can make them.

CONCLUSION

Vicki Manning has created 25 fun ideas for you and your child to make crafting memories together. With many families currently staying at home, this book will provide some useful ideas to entertain and bond with your children. The memories created by this joint effort will last a lifetime.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank Vicki Manning, NetGalley, and Walter Foster Publishing for affording me the opportunity to review The Grown-Up’s Guide to Crafting with Kids: 25+ Fun and Easy Craft Projects to Inspire You and the Little Ones in Your Life.

While it is a little advanced for my own daughter right now, this book has so many great ideas that I can't wait to try out with her when she is older! There are so many fantastic and inspirational ideas that looks so good you wouldn't believe they are made by a child.

The Grown-Up’s Guide to Painting with Kids is perfect for getting creative and messy is the very best way. There are so many fabulous ideas in this is book and I really can’t wait to try them with my three kids ages 13, 9, and 5 as I feel they will all 3 have so much fun!

I was provided with an electronic ARC through NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

I received an advanced reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This is a great book for parents/carers of chikdren to read to help them to help, guide, encourage and support chikdren using paint pouring techniques. It covers equipment and goes through different types of techniques and styles and shows some ideas for projects to try too. I really enjoyed this book and I'm not sure why it has been rated so low.

This book is great for parents with children that are a bit older but want to have some fun family time. My daughter is too young (2) to be able to do many of these but for an older child it would be fun. I like that there are a variety of project ideas so you can try a bunch of different ones using the same techniques.

This is basically a book on different ways to do paint pouring. Very messy, usually not done as a group or in a teaching environment. Could not be done without large amounts of paint.

What luscious paintings. Eye Candy. Creative ideas of cutting out the colored parts in different shapes and mxing them along in other media. Great fun, if you have some patience for clean up after.

I really enjoyed this book. It’s one I can see myself dipping into, especially during lockdown. I’d recommend it to home schoolers, parents and teachers.

This book is wonderful!! I feel a few projects are more advanced so be sure to very closely supervise your littler ones as they move through these projects. This book has so many great ideas that I am very excited to try some of these! I would also like to say this doesn't just have to be for kids this book is wonderful if you just want to do something creative. The liquid pours are very well documented. I also really like the close your eyes activities were you doodle and then recreate the shapes with paint it is just a fun way to relax your mind.

There are so many fantastic and inspirational ideas that looks so good you wouldn't believe they are made by a child. I have already pre-ordered a copy and I am very excited to try these with my grand kids after our pandemic lock-down. I highly encourage you to get this book you wont be disappointed.

I received this book from Quarto Publishing Group - Walter Foster for an honest review.

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The Grown-Up's Guide to Painting with Kids is an opportunity to paint freely with young people. I love how the acrylic pouring activities invite you to experiment with color and shape. I look forward to getting messy with this book with students and my little ones!

An amazing little book packed full of information and ideas for both adults and kids. Great inspiration for becoming the next Jackson Pollock. Create some great artwork for yourself or as gifts. Just make sure you have a big space to make the mess. Have fun.
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A great resource that comes during a timely season of life! Order your supplies from your favorite online retailer and brave the possibility of mess because this book and all the photos will make you want to paint as a family.

A nice guide to help parents engage artistically with their children. Sometimes it's hard to know where to start and this book provides nice jumping off points.

Great ideas and instructions for painting with kids. Its hands-on and easy to follow projects make the book a nice addition to any maker's shelves. Planning on purchasing and using the book as a guide for some library programs.

Warning some of the stuff in this book is messy - but the kids LOVE it.
Another great book for entertaining children through holidays, weekends and our tough times of Covid19. Lots of paint - dripping, pouring, splattering, squirting. Lots of paper tearing, ripping, cutting, gluing. And most of all lots of good times and fun projects to keep.

The Grown-Up’s Guide go Painting with Kids is a great book to have on your bookshelf if you’re a parent.

It’s filled with lovely, colourful art projects and clear, easy to follow, step by step instructions (with photos!).

This book definitely came in handy during lockdown, we completed a few projects from it.. they turned out great!

3.5 stars!

I am always on the look out for books that help me develop some kind of project, for my work an at home with my children.
This books is well structured an helps you toting through all the many possibilities that you have with art projects.
You can find stuff for small children and for older children. you can work with different styles and techniques and can build your exercises from scratch and have yourself and the kids a Funtime .

I enjoyed this book very much and it helped me tremendous with my work.

I know the book says it is for grown up's painting with children....but I think the book is incredible for adults painting on their own too!! It has a wealth of ideas and activities that are informative, inspiring, accessible and creative! It is a fabulous book for both children and adults!

The Grown-Up's Guide to Painting with Kids is a tutorial and resource guide filled with fun liquid art (paint pouring) projects for kids (and their adults). Released 2nd June 2020 by Quarto on their Walter Foster imprint, it's 128 pages and available in paperback and ebook formats.

I noticed something when going through this book. While it certainly is full of guided creative tutorials for painting with kids, I noticed *myself* opening up and not stifling myself at all during the process. This is an incredibly valuable side-effect of taking the focus off of ourselves and letting the process happen. I heartily recommend doing these fun exercises for us personally before we try them out with students or our own kids. I suffer a lot from the "instant expert" expectations for myself (happily, I don't do it to anyone but myself.. but it's still a drag, not feeling like my own art is "good enough"). This little book helped me get over that feeling a little bit.

Paint pouring is completely serendipitous and not under the artist's control in a lot of ways. That makes it perfect for concentrating on the process and creativity. The author uses about 15% of the page content giving a good introduction to the tools, materials, and techniques and then leads into the tutorials. A lot of the prompts are "what happens when we..." and include some really pretty finished projects like a cloud mobile with randomly colored raindrops.

Each of the projects includes an intro/description, tools and materials, and step by step photo tutorial. The photography is clear and abundant. There are color photos on every page. Alternate steps and enhancements are included for many of the activities.

This would make a superlative choice for a staying home activity, as well as a great idea for a library or classroom activity (when we can gather together again).

Five stars. There are a lot of good ideas here.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.