Activity Books » Girls

This title is a bumper collection of activities from Apple Tree Farm. It is split into activities for every season, beginning in spring with egg toppers and daisy chains right up to bouncing snowmen and sparkly snowflakes at winter. Every activity is clearly and vividly illustrated with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions. It features the popular illustrations of Stephen Cartwright.

Learning is fun with sing-along lyric books, music CDs and fun-time DVDs in this popular series.

Six simple steps turn a clothespin into a seriously cute mermaid, princess or ballerina.  Everything needed to create all three are here.  Our clothespins even have personalities - permanently painted friendly little faces.

Utterly Elegant Tea Parties is a charming little book about putting on charming little tea parties. Delicious recipes for real food that's really little (no cooking of course), irresistible party themes and fetching fashion ideas are sure to make any young hotess the mostest.

Future party planners, pen pals and all purpose keep-in-touchers will love Little Letters, the most adorable kids' stationery set ever. It's everything kids need to make, write and deliver their very own cards, notes and invitations. The book itself is a charming introduction to letter writing, charmingly illustrated. It also includes three full pages of custom-designed stickers, an easy-to-make doorknob mailbox, a portfolio with bonus postcards and a plastic template that lets kids transform a plain old piece of paper into a personalized envelope.

Announcing the first ever "laptop refrigerator door."  The 26 brightly coloured, finger-friendly letters stick right to the steel pages of the book.  Play find the letter games, lern to build words, and create magnet art using nothing but letters.  This book makes learning your A, B, Cs as esy as 1, 2, 3!

Paper Purses comes with four pre-folded, ready to stuff purses. For individual flair, girls can decorate their purses with the included glittery jewels, sequins, puffy fabric shapes and other dazzling doodads. And, since true beauty is about what's on the inside, we also provide plenty of stuff to go in the purses: punch-out cell phones, keys, sunglasses, credit cards, cash and other necessary accouterment.

The tiara is the perfect goes-with-everything accessory. This book comes with three ready-to-design tiaras — and a stencil for making countless more — along with a treasure trove of sparkly doodads for decorating them. Add a bonus collection of mini-tiaras (in case any dolls around the kingdom start feeling just a bit left out) and it will all give any little girl that happily-ever-after feeling.

With Make Your Own Twirly Tutu, creating a beautiful dancing costume is as easy as tying a simple knot. That's right, no sewing required. Just tie our fluffy pink tulle strips to the comfy elastic waistband provided and you're ready to pirouette the day away. A length of pretty pink satin ribbon and beautifully illustrated punch-out wings, crowns and shoe toppers add fancy finishing touches. It's everything any little girl needs to give ballet a twirl. 

Little kids are fascinated by sewing and can't wait to try it themselves.  Now they can! 

With Super Simple Sewing, kids can sew a ribbon-handled purse, a birdie backpack buddie, a beautiful bracelet, and a door tag. And if you think those are cute, wait till you see that “look what I did” sparkle in the eyes of the kid who made them.

Learn how to become a successful fairy chef with Felicity Wishes in this sparkling cook book.

Step-by-step recipes show you how to make 15 fairy recipes, including magical muffins, heart-shaped biscuits, fudge flowers and fairy cakes for you and your friends. It also includes how to throw a cooking party, top tips, essential cooking equipment, a certificate of cooking magic, an envelope to keep your recipe cuttings, and a wipe-clean cake decorating template insert.

Welcome to the wide-open world of animation!

The Klutz Book of Animation is a complete how-to treatment of this newly accessible art form.  It combines practical instruction and ready-to-shoot scripts.  Real-life samples of all the projects are viewable online - the perfect marriage of book and web.

Petal people you make yourself!

Making these tiny fairies is truly enchanting.  Simply follow the step-by-step directions to bend wire for the fairy's body, choose fabric flowers for a dress, and top with a bead head and flowing floss hair.  The varieties of fairies you can create are endless.

For the girls who are girly right down to their fingertips!

Three ink pads - purple, green, and, of course pink -  plus a black felt-tip pen, is all you need to transform ordinary fingerprints into pretty kitties, poodle puppies, hairstyles, flowers, fashions, butterflies, and a festive squad of cheerleaders.  But the fabulosity doesn't stop there.

A complete, ready-to-craft package that includes everything you need to create your own one-of-a-kind cards and envelopes.  This full-colour book of instructions comes with a portfolio of beautiful papers and card-making tools.

Personality Quizzes for you and your friends!

This book includes 30 confidence-building quizzes that answer only-from-Klutz questions like "What Kind of Cookie Are You?" and "Eight Ways to Tell if Your Parents are Extraterrestrials."  Girls will love using the included 70-page notepad and stylish pen to jot down their quiz results and compare answers with friends.

This book is crammed with super secret-keeping stuff, like secret notes (how to fold with flair), secret languages (beyond Pig Latin), secret codes (including phone-less texting), secret signs and symbols (say it with socks), and e-secrets (the silliest emoticons ever). There are even two bound-in decoder wheels for deciphering secret messages. Finally, we've included maybe the coolest attachment ever: a super-secret invisible ink pen. Anything you write looks completely invisible, until you shine the built-in UV light on it — then your secret message glows with mysterious legibility.

This beautifully illustrated, full-color book of step-by-step directions comes with a whole flock of quality craft supplies like wooden beads, fabric flower petals, and shiny sequins — enough stuff to make eight angels. With the variety of halo, hair, and wing options included, each angel is as adorable as the next, but no two are exactly alike. Best of all, once you've made all your ornaments, the package serves as a beautiful storage box, with eight little compartments perfectly sized to hold eight little angels.

A collection of the 20 most popular marbles games in the galaxy. Scrumple, Knuckle, Bun Hole, Puggy, Newark Killer, and more! Packaged with 14 of the most amazingly colorful marbles we could find, plus a drawstring fabric pouch to keep your winnings in.

With Paper Fashions, girls get to craft their own paper-clothing couture. Plastic stencil shapes make it simple to trace perfectly proportioned pants, purses, skirts, scarves, sweaters, shoes and more. Cut each piece out of the array of double-sided, acid-free patterned papers and then mix and match them any way you like. Embellish your designs with sequins, ribbon and other decorative doodads. Finally, hang your outfits on the included tiny hangers. Bellisima! Use paper fashions to decorate greeting cards, gift bags, locker magnets and more but, really, the joy is in the creating.