Review: Ecology Crafts For Kids: 50 Great Ways To Make Friends With Planet Earth

Ecology Crafts For Kids: 50 Great Ways To Make Friends With Planet Earth by Bobbe Needham
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

The idea is good, the realization is... as always. I find it ironic that most of the "eco-friendly crafts" in this book generate more waste than the materials for them otherwise would. Out of 50 or so projects, only 4 sparked sufficient interest to maybe, some day, try them: a birch bark canoe (as an interesting variation of a traditional spring toy ship), a kissy fish pinata (which a simple paper mache project, but I liked it anyway), a paper mache bird (another paper mache project... I'm fond of them, apparently), and a green bottle garden (looks cute, but I doubt I'd do it: seems like to much work to maintain). And sadly, that's it from a whole book of "eco" projects for kids.

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