Kids arts and crafts books by Jean Van’t Hul include The Artful Parent and The Artful Year, both written for families to use to have fun, raise creative kids, and celebrate art and life. Invitation to Draw is Jean’s latest book and is currently available for preorder.
The Artful Parent: Simple Ways to Fill Your Family’s Life with Art & Creativity is my first book and has the tools and information you need to encourage your children’s creativity through art. It’s been translated into several languages and sold around the world and was recently completely updated and revised.
The Artful Year: Celebrating the Seasons and Holidays with Crafts & Recipes contains a year’s worth of family crafts, art activities, recipes, and more to help make each season special.
Invitation to Draw: 99 Drawing Prompts to Inspire Kids’ Creativity is filled with drawing prompts that inspire kids’ creativity. It’s the perfect activity for kids during quiet time, transitions, travel, waiting at doctor’s office, restaurants, etc.
Here’s a bit about each, including where you can find more about them…
Kids Arts and Crafts Books for Kids
The Artful Parent
The Artful Parent: Simple Ways to Fill Your Family’s Life with Art & Creativity is the art book for children by Jean Van’t Hul.
Winner of the 2013 Family Choice Awards and named one Amazon’s Best Crafting Books, this book provides the tools and inspiration to provide an art-rich environment that encourages children’s creativity, imagination, and self-confidence. Topics covered include:
- Get started
- Choose art supplies
- Set up an art space
- How to talk to kids about art
- Fun arts & crafts activities
You can order The Artful Parent book on Amazon and read more than 220 reviews for the book (5-star cumulative between 1st & 2nd editions).
The Artful Year
Celebrate the seasons and holidays through art, crafts, and cooking together with The Artful Year: Celebrating the Seasons & Holidays with Family Arts and Crafts by Jean Van’t Hul.
The Artful Year takes you through the year with many creative ways to celebrate each of the seasons and holidays with arts and crafts, food, picture books, and more. It includes over 175 family-friendly activities! The book includes:
• Arts and crafts, using the materials, colors, and themes of the season
• Decorations to make as a family
• Favorite seasonal recipes that are fun for children to help make (and eat)
• Ideas for celebrating the holidays together
• Suggested reading lists of children’s picture books about the seasons and holidays
Find The Artful Year ebook on Amazon (currently out of print).
Invitation to Draw
You know how big a fan I am of simple and open-ended drawing prompts. So I made a book of fun drawing prompts for kids called: Invitation to Draw: 99 Drawing Prompts to Inspire Kids’ Creativity.
It’s totally different from my previous books and yet still all about kids’ art and creativity.
Drawing prompts are like magic!
Jean Van’t Hul
Drawing prompts help children draw and think more creatively by inspiring them with interesting and challenging art prompts and questions.
Preorder your copy today and receive 5 drawing invitations and other bonuses to immediately use with your kids! Read all about the preorder bonus gifts available for a limited time only (publication date June 2021).
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