Description:
This package is filled with lots of “joyful” goodies! Make a “joy” plaque, ornaments and paper chains with festive papers and ribbons and learn how to recycle your favorite holiday cards to create more!
Project:
Each package includes a kit to create your own “joy” plaque. Materials vary so each package is your own unique, one-of-a-kind creation! We can’t wait to see what you come up with!
The Doll People Book Package
$22.00 each
Book: The Doll People by Ann Martin, & Laura Godwin. Pictures by Brian Selznick.
Description: Annabelle Doll is eight years old–she has been for more than a hundred years. Not a lot has happened to her, cooped up in the doll house, with the same doll people, day after day, year after year… until one day the Funcrafts move in.
Project: Make your own paper doll house and enter our doll house contest. Click here for more ideas, tips and suggestions. Beginners can put together Etta’s Pink House. Click here to see some paper doll houses club members have created
American History Mystery Book Package
$22.00 each
Books: Spy on the Home Front by Alison Hart
& Peril at King’s Creek by Elizabeth McDavid Jones.
Description: We are doubling the fun with two mysteries this month! Both books are set during historical periods of time. Molly McIntire is trying to solve a mystery that threatens her friends and family during the World War II era in A Spy on the Home Front. In the second book, Peril at King’s Creek, Felicity Merriman tries to discover the mystery of missing horses near her grandfather’s plantation during the Revolutionary War.
Project: “American History Mystery” gives club members the opportunity to collect and crack codes in order to solve a mystery. Each kit includes: supplies to make a book of clues, 4 code cracker cards and 15 clue cards.
Trumpet of the Swan Book Package
$22.00 each
Book: Trumpet of the Swan, by E.B. White.
Description: Louis is a beautiful Trumpeter Swan with a big challenge, he can’t speak! What good is a trumpeter swan that can’t use his voice? Find out how Louis and his family deal with his challenge and end up surpassing everyone’s expectations.
Project: Make a “Uniquely Me” message board. Kit includes: personal size chalk board, chalk, decorative ribbon, paint, paint brush and embellishments.
Ballet Shoes Book Package
$22.00 each
Book: Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
Description: Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil are not your ordinary sisters or your ordinary ballerinas. Pauline is blonde with a flair for drama. Petrova is brunette and fascinated with automobiles and aeroplanes. Finally Posy, the youngest, is red-headed with quite possibly perfect feet. Find out more about this British trio in Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild.
Project: Make our Friends Mini Album. This mini scrapbook is the perfect place to hold school pictures of friends and family. The kit includes mini tin, accordion folded insert, fun paper, stickers, ribbon and 3D embellishments. Cute, cute, cute!
Gooney Bird Greene Book Package
$22.00 each
Book: Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry
Description: Looking for a quick and fun read? Gooney Bird Greene is just the ticket! Gooney Bird is unlike anyone you’ve ever met. After all, she just moved to town from China riding on a magic carpet. She wears diamond earrings that she got from the prince’s palace. Plus, she’s been known to direct a symphony orchestra. Gooney Bird has a knack for storytelling, her classmates eat it up and so will you!
Project: Gooney Bird Greene likes to be smack dab in the middle of everything and the star of the show. Scoot over Gooney Bird, this month club members will write their own stories and be the star! Kit includes: hardcover storybook for creative writers, personalized label, stickers, and a funky create-your-own fuzzy writer’s pen.
Ella Enchanted Book Package
$22.00 each
Book: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Description:Ella Enchanted is a Cinderella story with a new twist. When Ella was born, she was given a special gift from a well-intentioned fairy. The “gift” of obedience was bestowed upon young Ella. Anytime anyone gives an order, Ella has to obey, without exception. The “gift” becomes a curse and Ella must find a way out of her situation before something dreadful happens. Ella Enchanted, is a truly “enchanting” tale of love, friendship, and inner strength. You will never see Cinderella and Prince Charming the same way again.
Project: Create your own enchanting stationery adorned in gold.
The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes Book Package
$22.00 each
Book: The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes: Every Cloud has a Silver Lining by Anne Mazer
Description:All her life Abby has felt far too “ordinary” for her “extraordinary” family. She secretly wonders if she was switched at birth! How could she be surrounded by such talented people and be so plain? Even her little brother is a genius!
Abby is determined to turn things around in fifth grade when she dreams of becoming a famous soccer star. With a lot of practice and effort, she believes she will finally fit in with her brilliant and talented family.
Project: A creative calendar project. Use the cut-outs and embellishments provided, personal photos, magazine clippings, drawings, and imagination to create your own calendar. Each month will be a bright new collage you created.
Half Magic Book Package
$22.00 each
Book: Half Magic by Edward Eager
Description: This is an enchanting story about a family of four kids that happen upon a magic coin. The coin grants wishes, but only half way. Clever children will quickly learn they must wish for twice as much as they truly desire. This is a purely imaginative tall. This is also a very fun read aloud and you’ll find yourself caught up in making double wishes and cheering for the kids to survive their wishes!
Project: The project is all about Magic this time. There is a plush purple velvet drawstring pouch filled with jokes and trick magic items, from invisible ink to mind bending puzzles. Get together with friends and host your own magic show!
Main Street Book Package
$22.00 each
Book: Main Street: Welcome to Camden Falls by Ann M. Martin
Description: Ann Martin is a favorite author for school aged children. In this new series, we meet the town of Camden Falls and the newest move-ins, Flora and Ruby. The two sisters have come to live with their grandma after a tragic accident that took their parents. They will come to enjoy the residents of their new community, draw closer to their grandma, make friendships, and learn a little more about their own mom’s childhood. After all, she once lived in the very house and community they now live in.
Project: One of Etta’s most popular craft kits yet! When the sisters were going through their healing process, they decided to make bears for kids in crisis. This project allows you to make your own bear, by stuffing your bear with fluff, zipping it up tight in the back and tying on the bow. You can keep the bear for yourself, give it to a friend, or donate to a local organization that helps kids in crisis.
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Book Package
$22.00 each
Book: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Description: This has been a favorite book for over 30 years and is sure to be a classic! If you read this book, you must promise not to run off to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City like the main characters do! You will never visit a museum again without thinking, I wonder where I would sleep if I had to hide out here? And how long could you really hide anyway?
Project: After reading this book you will certainly be in the mood to do a little sculpting, perhaps an angel? This craft kit includes instructions to make a basic angel. Make it your own and be creative. The kit includes three packages of sculpey II clay, great for beginners and pros alike. After the clay is sufficiently softened, sculpt away, bake in the oven following directions, embellish as desired and enjoy your masterpiece!
Princess Academy Book Package
$22.00 each
Book: Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Description: This is a great book if you like books with more description and a well-developed plot. Meet Miri, a mountain girl from Mount Eskel. When Miri and her peers go to study at the Princess Academy, they are challenged to overcome their mountain ways and prepare themselves for a possible future with the Prince himself. A prophesy is made that the Prince’s future bride will come from the Mountain. This is not really a book about becoming a princess as much as it is about becoming more of your true self. When the girls learn to read and write a whole new world is opened to them. Many lives are changed. This book is a little over 300 pages.
Project: You will make a collage tin with inspirational words held together with your own unique decorative marble magnets. The best part about this project is that you can change the look and phrase whenever you wish!
Nobody’s Perfect Book Package
$22.00 each
Book: Nobody’s Perfect by Marlee Matlin & Doug Cooney
Description: This book is about a smart girl named Megan that struggles to befriend the new girl Alexis. Every time Megan extends a hand of friendship, Alexis seems to give her the cold shoulder. Megan tries her best to stay positive, but she begins to think Alexis might not like her, just because she is deaf. This is a modern story with a good message. Nobody is perfect—no matter what you might think!
Project: There are a whole lot of goodies in this bundle! This package comes with a cute daisy mini-tote filled with things to help you put together a little gathering with a few friends. Etta has included party planning pointers, decorative note cards, a deck of alphabet and sign cards, and a reference chart.
