Activity Books To Keep Young Brains & Hands Busy
We think activity books make a brilliant present, they tend to be around the £10 mark so perfect for kids’ birthday parties where you don’t want to spend too much, and they don’t carry the same stigma as gifting a book which could cause an eye-roll from a child (before they read it and realise IT’S THE BEST BOOK IN THE WORLD of course).
Parents love them as they can provide hours of screen-free entertainment and they can crack on with them at the dining room table.
Here are some of our favourites, or view the whole range here.
The Me Book: All About Me By Me
Aimed age: 5-8 years
Price: £9.99
With creative ideas and inspired prompts, this art activity book will have young artists filling the pages with all sorts of wild and wonderful things about themselves. The activities range from simple things like your birthday, your eye colour, portraits of your family and friends or filling in information about your favourite foods or clothes, to the more weird and wonderful, like your favourite smells, how many star jumps you can do in one minute and what flavour you would be if you were an ice-cream.
What we love about this book is that it acts as a snapshot in time. A child will fill this book out cover-to-cover over a few weeks or months, then you hide it away in a drawer and bring it out a few years later and let the memories hit you in the face and reminisce about how cute they used to be and weep about where the time has gone.
Art Activity Books By Tate
Aimed age: 6-8 years
Price: £6.99
We have a new range of art activity books in by Tate Publishers, covering such artists as: Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Peter Blake, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, JMW Turner, Piet Mondrian and The Pre-Raphaelites.
Inspire the young (and young-at-heart) artists in your life with this fantastic collection of activity books. Each book introduces a different artist or art movement through hand-on activities and beautiful illustrations.
Featuring beautiful reproductions of key artworks, each book is illustrated by a leading contemporary illustrator, chosen by Tate. The Meet the Artist series encourages children to use art as an avenue for exploring ideas and expressing their own experiences through art-making, and is an excellent introduction to the key themes and figures of art.
The Mischief-Makers Handbook
Aimed age: 7-11 years
Price: £9.99
This is a great one if you want to get back at someone who gifted your child something loud and annoying, or if you have a healthy rivalry with a sibling and try to outdo each other with outrageous presents to each other’s children… This has got real aunt/uncle gift energy.
“Learn how to make mischief with this hilarious, fully illustrated handbook. Clear step-by-step activities and annotated diagrams will transform you into the mischief-maker that you've always wanted to be. From turning your body into an orchestra, to making invisible ink and rubber band catapults, it's all covered in this comprehensive guide.
The book includes top-secret DIY hacks to make your own practical jokes, exasperating questions to ask adults and top tips on how to get away with (almost) anything!”
Let’s Make Some Great Art: Animals
Aimed age: 5-7 years
Price: £9.99
From drawing and painting to collaging and printing, Let’s Make Some Great Art Animals includes all kinds of art activities to engage budding artists and animal-lovers. Get creative as you blow-paint your own strange creatures, make handprint animals, or use paper and fingerprints to make greyhounds, giraffes and tigers.
Draw Here
Aimed age: 5-6 years
Price: £10.99
Experiment, play, and draw―but most of all, just have fun―inside and outside the box with bestselling author Hervé Tullet's new activity book! Tullet's signature bold dots bounce, spin, and splatter across spread after spread, brilliantly communicating the foundations of whimsical imagination. More than 135 pages brimming with activities invite readers to fill in, connect, decorate, and above all, reimagine the dots, opening up eyes and minds to see things differently, playfully, and creatively!
From the acclaimed author of Press Here, a best-selling book for babies & toddlers.
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