Funky Friday

Klutz

Klutz is a company that produces activities for children, unlike regular books that you just read, Klutz makes a huge variety of books that encourage kids to be active and use their imaginations.  The company was started back in 1977 in Palo Alto, California by three friends from Stanford.  They started with juggling lessons and worked their way up to where they are today.  In 2002 they were acquired by Scholastic, Inc.

Klutz was kind enough to send Mommy in PA and Mommy in GA three books each for our families to review so we are going to be breaking this down over three Friday's so that we can give you all a really good idea about the quality products that Klutz has to offer.

Mommy in PA received the two books we will be talking about today:

"Splat Art"

Blops & Dribbles In Need of Your Scribbles

by Andrew Pinder

This is a really cute book.  They give the kiddos a partially completed photo made with either part of a plant, banana skins, or possibly just a blob of paint and give them a good idea of what they could turn that into.  It's filled with little bits of humor and tons of fun ideas. 

 Here's a example of one of the pages.  The first picture tells the kids to look what they found crawling under their pillow...LOL!

Here's the picture that my 14 year old daughter decided to work on.

And here's what it looked like when she was done.

Here's the completed one that my 7 year old son did (camera lost the one of what it looked like originally)

"Twirled Paper"

by Jacqueline Lee

This is a cute book/activity where you use these strips of paper to make cute animals and other things.  This comes with all the stuff you need (paper strips, curling tool, wiggle eyes, etc.)  They also sell refills of the stuff on their site so once you make the initial investment of the book you can just buy refills of stuff as you need it.

Here's a sample of what the pages look like, I love that chameleon!

 Here's the first few steps of the Grasshopper my 14 year old is making.

 Here's what all the completed pieces look like.

Here is her completed grasshopper.  Very cute!
So these are really great books/activities for the kiddos.  The first book was easy enough for anyone to do.  The second one, on the other hand, does take a lot of patience and depending on the child's age may need a lot of assistance.  I was very impressed at the huge selection of books/activities that they have on the site. 

Right now they have a great deal going on where you can get 20% off sitewide if you spend $40 or more plus you get free shipping! 

Stay tuned next week for two more books from Klutz.

Disclaimer:  I did receive the items above for free in exchange for my review but all opinions are my own!