Treats for the Holidays from Creativity for Kids
Contact: Lisa Ritchey, Public Relations Manager
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(Cleveland, OH) Creativity for Kids introduces 12 kits for the holiday season that are a treat for any child to do. These kits encourage creative expression and provide excellent play value.
Inspired by the positive reaction to Designed By You Fashion Studio, now girls can take the fashion design experience to a new level with Designed by You Formal Fashions [$24.99, age 9 & up]. Turn four couture style dresses into fabulous formal designs for the runway by embellishing them with an assortment of rhinestones, ribbon, lace, glitter and trims. Use the Foam Craft Workshop tool to create a flower clock with Foam Craft Projects Flower Clock [$11.99, age 7 & up]. This clock is fun and functional. Decorate it with foam shapes, plus add ribbons, stickers, and opti-stones. It operates on one AA battery (not included). There’s more for kids to decoupage with Decoupage Diva Message Board [$24.99, age 7 & up]. Decorate this dry erase board with trendy decoupage paper. Add gemstones and glitter accents to make a stylish and useful accessory for your room. The kit also includes ribbon to hang the board, two dry erase markers, and an eraser. Create a beautiful tray that’s functional too with Trendy Tiles Make a Mosaic Tray [$24.99, age 8 & up]. Arrange more than 100 pieces of brightly colored glass tiles in any design or pattern you like. Add ribbon handles and the 10 ½” x 10 ½” tray is ready for display.
If you like art, then Do Art Modern Masterpieces [$17.99, age 9 & up] is the kit for you. Learn to draw, color, and paint in the style of modern masters such as Picasso, Kandinsky, and Warhol. Try techniques on watercolor paper and canvas using Faber-Castell Watercolor Pencils and a pen for outlining. Display your artwork on the mounting boards that are included. Younger children will enjoy Do Art My First Portrait [$17.99, age 5 & up]. Draw a self-portrait, a caricature of a family member, or a picture of your pet with Faber-Castell Gel Sticks in 8 colors. This kit includes a 6” x 8” canvas, paper to practice on, a blending stick, paint brush, and marker for outlining. Brushing water on your drawing will turn it into a painting as the gel sticks are soluble. Create Your Own Pop-Up Books [$15.99, age 5 & up] is a fantastic companion kit to the popular classic kit Create your Own Books. This new kit contains two hardcover pop-up books – one book is 8 ½” x 8 ½” and the other is 6 ¼” x 6 ¼”. Use your imagination to write stories about the pop-up designs, and then do drawings with the markers in the kit to go with your stories. Add stickers too, and even your own photographs. The illustrated instructions include story starter ideas and a step-by-step guide to the pop-ups.
Lip balm never goes out of style, and the newest kit Sweet Shop Lip Balm [$17.99, age 7 & up] makes it even sweeter with three yummy candy flavors to blend into the balm. There are enough ingredients to make five containers of lip balm. Place the balm in the candy-shaped containers and decorate them with ribbon and wrappers, then carry the lip balm in the sweet pink tote. This is a fun activity to do with friends. If you like horses, you’ll enjoy Deluxe Show Horse [$17.99, age 6 & up] where you can paint your own horse and then add a mane and tail, saddle, blanket, garland and award ribbon. This is a great play and pretend activity, and the horse is pretty to display in your room.
Penguins are a hot trend that’s very, very cool, and these penguins wobble in the most adorable way. Paint 4 penguin wobbles with the Penguin Wobbles kit [$17.99, age 6 & up]. Then add cute accessories such as ear muffs, scarf, top hat, boa, feathers and more. Each wobble is about 3 ¾” tall and display them wherever you want to have some fun watching them wobble and bobble. PlayFoam gets even better with Glow-in-the-Dark PlayFoam [$19.99, age 5 & up]. This set includes 5 colors of GlowFoam, plus glowing antennas, eyes, and other craft accessories to create creatures from your imagination that will glow in the dark. Ahoy matey, it’s the Haunted Pirate Ship kit [$24.99, age 7 & up] for all those pirate lovers out there. Assemble a glow-in-the-dark wooden pirate ship, then add accents with glowing paint plus tattered sails, cobwebs, a keg, treasure chest, and a skeleton add to the pirate theme. This 14” long ship is fun for play and pretend (land use only).