There's no better way to inspire your artist! Generously sized chalk board and dry erase boards are perfect for projects large and small. Easel folds ups easily for convenient storage and features a colorful paint tray with cup holders. Has an easy loading paper roll holder and an extra large tray for holding erasers, chalk and clips. Paper cutting edge at top of easel means clean paper cuts for your artist's work! 4 large clips included. Easy load paper and paint cups not included.

Toy:  Chalkboard, Dry erase board, Fold nice and neat to store in the corner or under a bed, Recommended Age Range 3 Years and up
Company: Melissa and Doug  (2006-06-12)
List Price: $59.99
Amazon Price: $27.98

Stamp, color, and create your own dinosaur-dotted landscapes! When inspiration hits, this simple stamp and pencil set lets budding artists create countless colorful scenes. Some of the biggest names in Dino-dom are here: Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Pteranodon, Ankylosaurus, Apatosaurus, and Velociraptor. Use the fiery volcano stamp to give them a landscape and then watch as these once-extinct dinosaurs multiply. The set includes five colored pencils for sketching, scribbling, or filling in the details, and two large pads of washable ink--a blessing for parents of the overzealous stamper. All of the included pieces stow neatly in the sturdy wooden storage bin with transparent lid, so artists always know what's available, and can tidy up after themselves when they're done. --Heather Lyndon

Toy:  Conveniently stored on wooden box, Bright ink colors, Create beautiful scenes, Manufacturer's Lifetime Warranty, Recommended Age Range 4 Years and up
Company: Melissa and Doug  (2006-06-12)
List Price: $9.99
Amazon Price: $4.00

Open up your own jewelry-making factory with this Wooden Stringing Beads set. This conveniently packaged, brightly painted set contains more than 200 wooden letters and beads. There are also eight colored cords to make necklaces and bracelets that you can keep or give as gifts. Stored in a durable, handy wood tray with a clear sliding top.

Toy:  Over 200 wood letters and beads, Stores conveniently, Brightly colored, Great for gifts, Recommended Age Rating is 4 Years and up
Company: Melissa and Doug  (2006-10-04)
List Price: $14.99
Amazon Price: $7.49

Publish your own book with the Illustory Make Your Own Book Kit! This award-winning activity kit allows future authors to write and illustrate their very own story on special book pages provided. Once the story is complete, it is sent to be published, and in a few short weeks the budding writer receives a color-copied, professionally type set hardbound book. Ideal for ages five and up, this innovative kit nurtures enthusiasm for reading, writing, and illustrating.

Let the Fun Begin
Illustory Make Your Own Book Kit is not only fun, it also helps your child build self-esteem. You'll never forget the look in your budding writer's eyes as you proudly display his or her first book on your coffee table or bookshelf. This kit even includes an "About the Author" biography page, title, and dedication, just like a real published book. Your child will also enjoy creating the cover and will be able to select from seven cover colors. Families can have fun too as they create their own story together. Extra books with alternate dedication pages can be ordered to make the child's story a gift or keepsake for family, friends, or teachers.

Once your child is finished with the writing, sending the manuscript to publishing is easy, with the included paid postage envelope. Production time is about three to four weeks, plus delivery time. The finished hardcover book measures 7 by 9 inches with 12 pages, and features a permanent hardback binding, a laminated cover drawing, and book title. For techno-savy young authors, the book can be created entirely online by using the Creations By You bookmaking Web site. The entire Illustory kit includes 18 special book pages, 2 cover pages, 10 washable markers, story web planner, instructions, order form, and a prepaid envelope. The correct spelling option allows a choice between leaving spelling errors in or having the words printed correctly.

Award-Winning Features
This kit was a winner of the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal Award, as well as multiple awards from other organizations. It helps builds self-esteem and sparks an interest in reading and writing. Youngsters learn to see a project through to completion, and their final printed story rewards their effort. There are many optional upgrades available (for a charge) to enhance the book. Extra books can be printed and separately dedicated as gifts for family and friends. In addition, the author's photo can appear on the bio page, and rush delivery is also available. The Make Your Own Book kit beautifully captures a child's creativity and turns it into a keepsake that will be treasured for years to come.

What's in the Box
18 book pages, 2 cover pages, 10 washable markers, story web planner, instructions, order form, and prepaid envelope.

Publish your very own book with the Illustory Make Your Own Book Kit.

The Illusionary Kit comes complete with markers, special book pages, story planners, and more.

Toy:  12 pages Make your own book kit allows children to write and illustrate their own story, Receive a color-copied, professionally type-set book in a few short weeks, Children get to design cover and write About the Author biography page, Create book entirely online using bookmaking website, Includes 18 book pages, 2 cover pages, 10 washable markers, story web planner, instructions, order form, and prepaid envelope
Company: Creations by You  (2006-06-12)
ISBN: 0963679600
List Price: $21.95
Amazon Price: $13.93
Used Price: $11.60

Spark kids' creativity with this magical Glow Board where your drawings appear and disappear, creating cool 3-D effects like a neon sign. The reusable surface provides hours of non-stop creative fun. The colors give an intense, glow-in-the-dark effect, and violet lights illuminate the ink. Includes: two drawing surfaces, six glow-in-the-dark markers and a tracing sheet. Easel back. Measures 12" x 13.5" x 2.5".

Toy:  Glow board gives kids a unique and exciting way to display their artwork, Illuminates ink drawings like neon sign; props up for easier display, Drawing surface is reusable, making for hours of fun, Comes with 6 dazzling neon markers -- red, blue, yellow, green, orange, and pink, Recommended for ages 6 and up
Company: Crayola  (2007-08-01)
List Price: $32.99
Amazon Price: $14.39

The perfect paper for you budding artist. Perfectly-sized to fit standard easels. Great for pencils, markers, paints, and crayons. Includes 50 sheets of 17 x 20 inch premium heavy weight white bond paper.

Toy:  All products are non-toxic, washable and conform to ASTM D-4236., Our exceptional arts and crafts materials offer countless opportunities for creativity at great prices!, With crayons, paints, specialty papers, marker sets and craft scissors, its easy to express your artistic side!, 20 x 17 x 0.3
Company: Melissa & Doug 
List Price: $4.98
Amazon Price: $3.99

Create your own amazing effects with specially designed, Crayola dual-ended 3D chalk. Contrasting colors are paired up, making it easy to create 'popping' art and scenes. No matter what your skill level, Crayola makes it simple to get amazing results

Toy:  Special chalk combines the right colors., How to book to teach techniques for eye popping art., Make cool magic happen with the 3-D glasses.
Company: Crayola  (2007-12-15)
List Price: 
Amazon Price: $12.95

Help kids understand the concept of behavior and rewards. This entertaining, magnetic activities board feature the innovative combination of magnets and wood. Includes a dry-erase board and 134 magnets depicting behaviors and rewards. Measures 16" x 12" when closed; 16" x 24" when open.

Toy:  Includes 134 magnets depicting behaviors and rewards, Magnetic Calendar/Dry-erase board, Great Quality, Great Value, Recommended Age Rating is 3 Years and up
Company: Melissa and Doug  (2007-03-13)
List Price: $19.99
Amazon Price: $12.49

The ultimate creativity toy! Original Colorforms will provide you with limitless possibilities. Designers, teachers, and toy collectors alike agree- this is the best creativity play set they've found. An exact replica of the Colorforms Set that launched the company in 1951-it was recently selected for the Toy Hall of Fame. Includes 350 brightly colored shapes in an elegant, spiral-bound book and case. The Colorforms easily attach to any glossy surface, or to one another, by applying slight pressure across the surface of each piece. A 2002 Parents' Choice Classic Award Winner.

Toy:  Original Colorforms will provide you with limitless possibilities, Exact replica of the Colorforms Set that launched the company in 1951, Includes 350 brightly-colored Colorforms pieces, Encourages creativity and imagination, Winner of Parents Choice Award for Top Classic Toy
Company: University Games  (1998-02-01)
List Price: $32.99
Amazon Price: $17.49

From the Manufacturer Get ready for some creative fun thats totally out of this world! Pop open this alien spaceship to discover all sorts of alien-making technologies, including LUNAR LAVA gel and reusable METEOR MUD compound, which are used to create alien forms! Mix and match the 14 different half-molds to create more than 90 different wacky alien combinations! Place your finished alien creations in the spaceships pods to fly the aliens home! Or use the tools to flatten or dissect your alien creatures! Dream up endless adventures and experiments for your aliens and creative fun thats completely cosmic! Spaceship playset comes with 14 alien half-molds, plastic knife, roller, tweezers, cutter, 3 two-ounce bottles of LUNAR LAVA gel and 3 two-ounce cans of METEOR MUD compound.

Toy:  Pop open this alien spaceship to discover all sorts of alien-making technologies, including LUNAR LAVA and METEOR MUD, which are used to create alien forms!, Mix and match the 14 different half-molds to create more than 90 different wacky alien combinations, and then place your finished alien creations in the spaceship’s pods to “fly” the aliens home!, Or use the tools to flatten or dissect your alien creatures!, Dream up endless adventures and experiments for your aliens and creative fun that’s completely cosmic!, Spaceship playset comes with 14 alien half-molds, plastic knife, roller, tweezers, cutter, 3 two-ounce bottles of LUNAR LAVA gel and 3 two-ounce cans of METEOR MUD compound.
Company: Hasbro  (2007-12-15)
List Price: $16.99
Amazon Price: $16.99

365 fun, creative activities to stimulate your toddler every day of the year.

This book contains 365 activities (one for each day of the year) for one-and-a-half to three-year-olds using things found around the home. It shows parents and day-care providers how to:

• Prevent boredom during the longest stretches of indoor weather with ideas for indoor play, kitchen activities, and arts and crafts projects.

• Stimulate a child's natural curiosity with entertaining math, language, and motor-skills activities.

• Encourage a child's physical, mental, and emotional growth with ideas for fun music, food, water, and outdoor activities.

• Keep toddlers occupied during long car trips or cross-town errands.

The Toddler's Busy Book is written with warmth and sprinkled with humor and insight. It should be required reading for anyone raising or teaching toddlers.

Author: Trish Kuffner
Paperback:  508 pages
Company: Meadowbrook  (1999-11-01)
ISBN: 0671317741
List Price: $9.95
Amazon Price: $5.61
Used Price: $2.69

Not all yarns are alike. Some make our hearts and hands sing, some get the job done without much fanfare, and some cause nothing but frustration and disappointment. The gorgeous pair of socks that emerged from their first bath twice as long as when they went in. The delicate baby sweater that started pilling before it even came off the needles. The stunning colorwork scarf that you can’t wear because the yarn feels like sandpaper against your neck. If only there were a way to read a skein and know how it would behave and what it wanted to become before you invested your time, energy, and money in it. Now there is! With The Knitter’s Book of Yarn, you’ll learn how to unleash your inner yarn whisperer.

In these pages, Clara Parkes provides in-depth insight into a vast selection of yarns, giving you the inside stories behind the most common fiber types, preparations, spins, and ply combinations used by large-scale manufacturers and importers, medium-sized companies, boutique dye shops, community spinneries, and old-fashioned sheep farms. And, because we learn best by doing, Parkes went to some of the most creative and inquisitive design minds of the knitting world to provide a wide assortment of patterns created to highlight the qualities (and minimize the drawbacks) of specific types of yarns.

The Knitter’s Book of Yarn will teach you everything you need to know about yarn: How it’s made, who makes it, how it gets to you, and what it longs to become. The next time you pick up a skein, you won’t have to wonder what to do with it. You’ll just know–the way any yarn whisperer would.

Author: Clara Parkes
Hardcover:  256 pages
Company: Potter Craft  (2007-10-16) (2007-10-16)
ISBN: 0307352161
List Price: $30.00
Amazon Price: $18.54
Used Price: $18.70

Author: Liz Jones
Paperback:  120 pages
Company: Interweave Press  (2008-04-01)
ISBN: 1596680660
List Price: $22.95
Amazon Price: $13.76
Used Price: $22.26

Author: Martha Sielman
Paperback:  416 pages
Company: Lark Books  (2008-05-06)
ISBN: 1600591078
List Price: $24.95
Amazon Price: $15.58
Used Price: $14.83

Author: Aimee Ray
Paperback:  128 pages
Company: Lark Books  (2007-09-01)
ISBN: 1600590616
List Price: $14.95
Amazon Price: $8.97
Used Price: $8.97

The Big-Ass Book of Crafts is packed with ideas for sprucing up your living space; concocting fabulous, all-natural body products; designing your own unique stationery; and creating countless other crafts that will convince your friends and loved ones that you're the secret love child of Martha Stewart (only much, much cooler).

Forget crocheted doilies and itchy knit sweaters -- TLC's While You Were Out top designer Mark Montano has created stylish and imaginative projects that range from a Warhol-esque Ultrasuede iPod case to photo-adorned boxer shorts to African mask patio chairs to wooden night-light boxes. Divided into sections that include Outdoorsy (ideas to enhance your backyard), Dishing It Out (decorating plates using different techniques), You've Been Framed (innovative picture framing ideas), and Can I Have a Light? (creating and decorating lamps, lanterns, and chandeliers), it's as entertaining to read as it is endlessly inspiring. With more than one hundred and fifty inventive and fun projects, The Big-Ass Book of Crafts is the perfect activity book for readers of every mood, budget, and skill level.

Author: Mark Montano
Paperback:  384 pages
Company: Simon Spotlight Entertainment  (2008-02-19)
ISBN: 1416937854
List Price: $19.95
Amazon Price: $12.02
Used Price: $12.02

Beloved Scandinavian designer Lotta Jansdotter shows how easy it is to print patterns on all sorts of surfaces. Using stencils, rubber stamps, homemade screens, and other easy techniques, the projects and processes range from simple prints easy for beginners to more involved projects for experienced artists. Stencil leaves on the walls, stamp flowers on wrapping paper, screen-print on a skirt the sky's the limit. Beautiful photographs inspire while step-by-step instructions and illustrations explain the basics. Plus, Lotta has included eight ready-to-use stencil pages with hand-drawn patterns, so crafters can easily achieve her signature style. Our innovative format, with perforated stencil sheets and a catchall envelope at back, makes this a fantastic resource for any aspiring printer.

Author: Lotta Jansdotter
Paperback:  120 pages
Company: Chronicle Books  (2008-04-02)
ISBN: 081186037X
List Price: $19.95
Amazon Price: $11.60
Used Price: $12.07

Bring out the craft supplies and roll up your sleeves! Rosie O'Donnell's Crafty U will give "U" all the help you need to entertain your kids throughout the year.

From television personality, children's advocate, and veteran crafter Rosie O'Donnell comes a fresh and fun collection of 100 easy craft projects for parents and kids (age 5 through 12). Projects include bunny piñatas for spring, tie-dye T-shirts for summer, creepy costumes for Halloween, very merry garlands for the holidays, Valentine's Day bouquets, and much more. Packed with practical advice, step-by-step instructions, and gorgeous full-color illustrations, Rosie O'Donnell's Crafty U offers plenty of inspiration for craft projects the whole family can enjoy on holidays, rainy days, or any "crafty" day!

Author: Rosie O'Donnell
Hardcover:  208 pages
Company: Simon & Schuster  (2008-04-08)
ISBN: 141655341X
List Price: $21.95
Amazon Price: $13.00
Used Price: $10.77

Publish your own book with the Illustory Make Your Own Book Kit! This award-winning activity kit allows future authors to write and illustrate their very own story on special book pages provided. Once the story is complete, it is sent to be published, and in a few short weeks the budding writer receives a color-copied, professionally type set hardbound book. Ideal for ages five and up, this innovative kit nurtures enthusiasm for reading, writing, and illustrating.

Let the Fun Begin
Illustory Make Your Own Book Kit is not only fun, it also helps your child build self-esteem. You'll never forget the look in your budding writer's eyes as you proudly display his or her first book on your coffee table or bookshelf. This kit even includes an "About the Author" biography page, title, and dedication, just like a real published book. Your child will also enjoy creating the cover and will be able to select from seven cover colors. Families can have fun too as they create their own story together. Extra books with alternate dedication pages can be ordered to make the child's story a gift or keepsake for family, friends, or teachers.

Once your child is finished with the writing, sending the manuscript to publishing is easy, with the included paid postage envelope. Production time is about three to four weeks, plus delivery time. The finished hardcover book measures 7 by 9 inches with 12 pages, and features a permanent hardback binding, a laminated cover drawing, and book title. For techno-savy young authors, the book can be created entirely online by using the Creations By You bookmaking Web site. The entire Illustory kit includes 18 special book pages, 2 cover pages, 10 washable markers, story web planner, instructions, order form, and a prepaid envelope. The correct spelling option allows a choice between leaving spelling errors in or having the words printed correctly.

Award-Winning Features
This kit was a winner of the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal Award, as well as multiple awards from other organizations. It helps builds self-esteem and sparks an interest in reading and writing. Youngsters learn to see a project through to completion, and their final printed story rewards their effort. There are many optional upgrades available (for a charge) to enhance the book. Extra books can be printed and separately dedicated as gifts for family and friends. In addition, the author's photo can appear on the bio page, and rush delivery is also available. The Make Your Own Book kit beautifully captures a child's creativity and turns it into a keepsake that will be treasured for years to come.

What's in the Box
18 book pages, 2 cover pages, 10 washable markers, story web planner, instructions, order form, and prepaid envelope.

Publish your very own book with the Illustory Make Your Own Book Kit.

The Illusionary Kit comes complete with markers, special book pages, story planners, and more.

Toy:  12 pages Make your own book kit allows children to write and illustrate their own story, Receive a color-copied, professionally type-set book in a few short weeks, Children get to design cover and write About the Author biography page, Create book entirely online using bookmaking website, Includes 18 book pages, 2 cover pages, 10 washable markers, story web planner, instructions, order form, and prepaid envelope
Company: Creations by You  (2006-06-12)
ISBN: 0963679600
List Price: $21.95
Amazon Price: $13.93
Used Price: $11.60

Make it yours. This inspirational guide with DIY attitude has everything you need to know about the world’s great T-shirt: how to cut it, sew it, deconstruct it, reconstruct it, and best of all, transform it. • Features more than 100 projects (plus 200 variations) for customized tees, tank tops, tube tops, T-skirts—even handbags, a patchwork blanket, iPod cozies, leg warmers, and more. • Not a DIY expert? Not to worry. More than one third of the projects are no sew, meaning anyone who can wield a pair of scissors can put a personal stamp on her wardrobe. But the sewing basics are here too: backstitch and whipstitch, gather and ruche, appliqué and drawstrings. • And the mission statement for Generation T: Ask not what your T-shirt can do for you; ask what you can do for your T-shirt. And then Do-It-Yourself!

Author: Megan Nicolay
Paperback:  272 pages
Company: Workman Publishing Company  (2006-02-02)
ISBN: 0761137858
List Price: $14.95
Amazon Price: $8.92
Used Price: $8.92