I love Taro Gomi’s illustrations and we’ve always enjoyed his books (My Friends, Bus Stops and Everybody Poos) so I was really interested when I discovered Taro Gomi’s Play All Day
activity book. Since then, I have bought it for everyone I know — I feel like I’ve found treasure! The book is basically the BEST book in the world for a rainy day (which we are prone to over here in Blighty).
It is cram-packed with things to make and pretty much everything you need is already in the book. There are more then 100 innovative ‘punch-out’ pieces for making games, cities, landscapes, sculptures, hats, finger-puppets, picture frames and all in Gomi’s distinctive style. All the ideas are simple enough for my 4-year-old to construct with a little bit of guidance. But what I love (other then the end result actually looking good — unlike our ‘start-from-scratch’ craft ideas) is that all the ideas inspire play — we made the ring-toss game last night and once made my kids played with it for 45 minutes. It’s available from Amazon (UK
and US
).
Mo. x
Comments (5)
These are such fun!! LOVE Taro Gomi! xxx
It is SO cool. After you gave it to Quin for his birthday, we have used it a ton (and I’ve now given it as birthday gifts as well!).
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Nice one. Thanks for sharing.
Great.. Ordered two copies straight away! Thank you Babyccino.. I love receiving your daily emails. Emma x
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