Kimberly Monaghan

Our customers have been waiting for a great follow-up to our 2005/2006 best-selling "Good Earth Art" book and we're pleased to say it has arrived. This is a wonderful activity book, especially given today's sensitivity to protecting our environment.
- Reach and Teach

Organic Crafts by Kimberly Monaghan is a book filled with earth friendly art ideas that allows you to foster your children’s creativity without harming the earth in any way. There is a good mix of indoor and outdoor activities available in this soft cover book. In going with the green theme, this book was printed on 100% recycled paper.
- LI Kids

Parents, teachers, and caregivers looking for ideas on how to get children outdoors and instill in them a love for nature can find more than 75 creative crafts, games, and activities using objects that kids can collect from nature in this idea book. As children make race cars out of rocks, create paint from plants, and assemble funny grass masks, they learn to be environmentally friendly—absorbing information on recycling, reducing waste, and inspiring others to protect nature. Organized by the various natural materials needed, the crafts offer a new twist on perennial homemade gifts and school projects.

Grade 2–5—These activities, crafts, and games are arranged by type of material used, such as rocks, pebbles, and shells; soil, clay, and sand, etc. There's a wide range of interesting projects, including clay beads, a glittering sand castle, potpourri, a sea sparkler, a wind sock, a gourd birdhouse, broken-china mosaics, homemade paper, rock sculpture, and garden chimes. Children will also learn how to make natural glue, cornstarch paint, and salt clay. Materials needed and numbered directions are given for each activity. Most supplies are easily obtainable through scraps from nature, recyclables, and general items; others must be purchased from craft or hardware stores. Safety tips and warnings are listed where appropriate; adult supervision is required for about 16 of the projects. Boxed text provides additional information, such as why you can't pick flowers in national parks. Black-and-white illustrations appear throughout. Useful advice and educational tips are included throughout, such as the importance of trees, the art of recycling, John James Audubon, Arbor Day, Stonehenge, and animal rescue. A "Nature's Paint" chart explains which berries and flowers produce certain colors for painting. The list for further exploration includes 39 books and l4 Web sites. The teacher's guide is handy as it lists activities by age level. This book will be a popular addition to library collections and useful in classroom settings to supplement science and art assignments.
- School Library Journal by Augusta R. Malvagno, Queens Borough Public Library, NY