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Klutz Books

There are so many of these great books, they get their own Hoagies page!  And the best thing... they come with ALL the materials you need for the projects - nothing else to buy!  Check them all out, or click to go straight to Klutz Books for Young Kids...

Outdoor Activities

Book of Paper Airplanes

Easy to make and fly

The Best Paper Airplanes You'll Ever Fly

3 simple designs that fly splendidly

The Footbag Book 

A lot like juggling, only with no hands. This book has all the tips and techniques you need

Book of Marbles

Rules to the twenty most popular marbles games, plus marbles in drawstring pouch

Book of Jacks

20 playground-tested, summer-camp-quality jacks games, with jacks, ball & bag

Yo-Yo Book

An illustrated history, plus a complete compendium of tricks, packaged with a spiffy, screw-apart yo-yo

Official Foxtail Book

Games to play, and a foxtail, of course

Juggling for the Complete Klutz

Step by step how to, with juggling balls that don't roll away

Book Of Ball Games

Indoor and outdoor games, some you won't believe!

How To Make Monstrous, Huge, Unbelievably Big Bubbles

Great bubbly fun, alone or in a party!

Chinese Jump Rope

Complete rules to nine classic games, along with two Chinese jump ropes

Jump Rope Rhymes

All the classic jump rope rhymes (plus a few that might be new to you) attached to eight feet of high-quality, multi-colored, non-kinking, practically indestructible jump rope

My Very Own Horse Book

A Complete Horse Handbook (horse NOT included!)

Indoor Activities

Origami

simple and satisfying origami folds, from the exotic parrot to the beautiful star box to the hopping frog (he really hops). The meticulously illustrated step-by-step instructions are easy to follow but yield impressive results.  Paper included, of course...

The Official Icky Poo Book

It’s very slick and a little gooey but, amazingly, won’t stick to your hands. It comes with two irresistible ropes of the stuff, in slime green and goo blue, and plenty of ingenious ways to use them from solo challenges to mob madness  Easy-to-wash Icky Poo included. (Do not use on latex!)

Table Top Football: A Guide to the Classic Lunchroom Sport

Comes with one very cool cowhide leather finger football

The Buck Book: All Sorts of Things to do with a Dollar Bill-Beside Spend It

Fold it! Don't spend it!

Tissue Paper Flowers

Incredibly beautiful, yet incredibly simple, tissue paper flowers, no watering required

T-shirt Art: Make Your Own Iron-on Designs

Complete with overlay, paint, and tons of designs

The Body Crayon Book 

Any skin area invites artistic self-expression with washable, non-toxic cosmetic crayons

Totally Tape

That's right, it's okay to use ALL of the tape in this book..."

Building Cards Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

The fourth, biggest and most fantastic Building Cards set yet. Of course, no Hogwarts experience would be complete without its most famous student, so we included a specially molded Harry Potter figure, ready to explore the one-of-a-kind school you create...

Building Cards: How to Make Castles

150 chipboard "cards" and tons more great ideas!

Building Cards: How to Build Pirate Ships

180 chipboard "cards" and great ship construction ideas!

Building Cards: How to Build Spaceships

180 chipboard "cards" and great ship construction ideas!

The Cootie Catcher Book

20 tear-em-out-and-fold-em-up, playground fortune-tellers, plus instructions to make your own

Games

The Best Card Games In the Galaxy

Instructions, plus a deck of cards...

Klutz Book of Board Games

Portable board, directions and pieces, all in one!

Peg Solitaire: 23 All-On-Your-Own Games

Penny Games

25 pennies to play dozens of games, from Penny Pile Up to Finish-the-Caterpiller, and there's always spare "tokens" in Mom's purse!  For the youngest gamers...

Pencil & Paper Activity Books

A Super-Sneaky, Double-Crossing, Up, Down, Round & Round Maze Book 

25 endlessly re-usable mazes to trace with your fingertip. Featuring the work of talented illustrators from around the world, each maze stands on its own as a work of art

Made You Look!: A Book of Picture Puzzles 

Forty-one artists created these pictures, photos, collages and more, including hidden pictures, matching games, and more!

The Most Incredible, Outrageous, Packed-To-The-Gills Bulging-At-The-Seams Sticker Book You've Ever Seen

Filled with stickers, stickers, stickers, stickers, stickers and stickers

The Only Coloring, Puzzle, Game, Dot-To-Dot Activity Book: You'll Ever Need!

Pencil-and-paper play, including hidden pictures, unfinished drawings, fold-ups, games, giggles and goofy stuff

Road Trip Trivia: A Big Book of Backseat Brainteasers
Kids Travel: A Backseat Survival Guide
The Amazing Backseat Booka-Ma-Thing: Thousands of Miles Worth of Hands-On Games and Activities

All "endorsed by the Save the Parents' Sanity Foundation"

Making Mini-Books

25 pennies to play dozens of games, from Penny Pile Up to Finish-the-Caterpiller, and there's always spare "tokens" in Mom's purse!  For the youngest gamers...

For Girls

Shrink Art Jewelry 

Design rings, bracelets, earrings, pendants, charms, necklaces and more, with special portfolio includes 225 designs to trace...

Holiday Picture Bracelets 

Create two bracelets for the holidays or any time!

Button Rings 

Easy instructions and everything you need to make a whole handful of funky and fancy Button Rings...

Hair Wraps and Rainbow Hairstyles: Simple Styles With a Touch of Color

The art of thread-wrapping hair braids, or hair painting!

Nail Art Book

Tips, techniques, and hundreds of designs to paint on fingernails (and toenails, too). No artistic genius required. Comes with six colors of non-toxic, peel-off nail paints - our exclusive formula

Spool Knit Jewelry: Make Beautiful Bracelets, Anklets and Rings

how to make two kinds of jewelry: simple crochet and spool knit

Beads: A Book of Ideas and Instructions

beaded jewelry projects, complete with hand-made Bohemian glass beads and professional-quality hardware

Braids and Bows     Hair: A Book of Braiding and Styles

Braiding and hair styles for girls, make your own barrettes and hair ornaments with the goodies

Beaded Bobby Pins

More hair goodies

Friendship Bracelets    Hemp Bracelets    Bead Rings

Bracelets and rings, with all the colorful floss (or hemp) and beads you need to make them

The Body Crayon Book 

Any skin area invites artistic self-expression with washable, non-toxic cosmetic crayons

Dial With Style

Add bling to your ring!

Decorate Your Locker

Cool pre-printed magnets make instant decorating easy, while peel-and-stick magnetic sheets can make almost any lightweight thing into a magnet...

Strings Attached...

Book of Knots

Color coded cord included

String Games from Around the World 

Attached to the book is a tie-dyed string loop -- all you need to bring is ten fingers

Journals

My Life According to Me

A journal for girls, with inspiring little questions, fun quizzes, drawing and writing ideas, and plenty of blank space, all on jet-black paper. Comes with a silver pen

Me and My Friends: The Book of Us

Helps friends get to know each other even better...

My Fabulous Life in Pictures

Everything kids need to start a scrapbook

A Blank Journal: For Teens and Beyond

A black-paged blank journal for teens and beyond

It's All About Me: Personality Quizzes for You And Your Friends

What kind of cookie are you?  Do you speak parent?  What would embarrass you to death?  Your own personal Annoy-O-Meter...

My Anytime, Anywhere, Autograph Book

For any reason!

Creations with Clay

The Incredible Clay Book

Get started with clay! 8 color blocks of clay

Create Anything With Clay

New techniques and all new projects, 8 color blocks of clay

Creations with Yarn, Thread, Lanyard

Scoubidou - A Book of Lanyard & Lacing

Scoubidou is plastic cord that is round, hollow and way more cooperative than yesterday's flat lanyard lacing. Comes with six candy-bright colors of scoubidou, beads, clips, key rings and everything you need...

Potholders: Other Loopy Projects

Weave a useful or beautiful piece of fabric from a jumbled pile of thread or yarn

Ribbon Purses: Create Tiny Purses from Fancy Ribbon 

Basic purse, beaded fringe, button purse, and more!

Knitting: Learn To Knit Six Great Projects
Simple Sewing: Complete Instructions for 7 Great Projects

Quick and easy ways to get started

Crochet: Learn to Crochet Six Great Projects 

Clear instructions and diagrams de-mystify the art of great crocheting, for all!

Book of Lanyard & Lacing

Craft kits that contain all the necessary materials

Drawing

Draw Thumb People: Fine Art at Your Fingertips    Draw Thumb Animals    Draw Thumb Things
Draw Christmas Thumbprints: Festive Art at Your Fingerprints

Transform your humdrumb thumbprints into pictures of people, animals and cool things

Drawing for the Artistically Undiscovered
Watercolor for the Artistically Undiscovered

Sketchbooks of inspirational artwork, gentle suggestions, practical advice, and lots of white space...

Draw the Marvel Comics Super Heroes

Draw your favorite heroes right in the book!

Doodle Faces    Doodle Dogs    Doodle Cats

Everything you need to get doodling...

Lettering in Crazy, Cool, Quirky Style 

Everything you need to be letterific, including mechanical pencils, stencils, markers, papers, and tons of ideas!

Miniature Creations

Make Your Own Itty-Bitty Angels
Make Your Own Itty-Bitty Ballerinas
Make Your Own Itty-Bitty Princesses

No two are exactly alike...

Creations

Fairies: Petal People You Make Yourself     Beadlings: How to Make Beaded Creatures & Creations

Fun creations

Design Your Own Charm Watch

Make it your own, and wear it everywhere!

A Book of Artrageous Projects

Amazing collaboration with the venerable Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, comes with all the supplies needed for a hands-on artistic experience

Capsters: Make Bottle Caps into Great Works of Coolness!

What will they think of next?

Wax Strings: Make things with strings that cling

Create art that jumps right off of the page. Comes with 56 brightly colored wax-dipped strings that are just sticky enough...

Room Lanterns: Punch-out Paper Shades to Make 7 Different Light Strings

Kid art turned decorating theme!

Paper Fashions: Design Your Own Styles 

Stencils, patterned papers, and all you'll need to create your own styles!

Squashing Flowers Squeezing Leaves: A Nature Press & Book

Complete with flower press, offers tips on collecting, a sheet of laminate and a sheet of sticker paper, and 16 different projects

Wishing Stars: Everything You Need to Make 100 Tiny Origami Stars

Miniature origami stars...

Pipe Cleaners Gone Crazy: A Complete Guide to Bending Fuzzy Sticks

A mega-dose of creativity for the common household pipe cleaner

Twirled Paper

Five hundred years ago some French nuns got the idea of curling strips of paper to make decorations...

Sun Paint: Use Sunshine to Make Colorful Fabric Prints

Create color magic! Swirl sun paint on plain white fabric, arrange interesting shapes on top and take the whole thing outside to dry in the sun. Once the paint dries, remove the objects and -- voila!

The Fabulous Book of Paper Dolls

Six paper dolls (with an array of skin tones), a massive mix-'n'-match wardrobe and accessories, hairstyles, backdrop scenes and a pull-out armoire...

More Art

Paper Stained Glass

Create color-by-numbers so cool you hang them in the window. 20 coloring designs are printed on see-through vellum - with no numbers. Instead, each design is bound between two different number-coded color schemes. Flip the design over the color scheme you like better and get coloring. Or ignore the codes altogether!

The Etch a Sketch Book

Your own little etch-a-sketch, and cool overlays and games to go with it

The Shrinky Dinks Book    Shrinky Dinks Refill Pack

Amazing shrinkable plastic. Draw or trace a design on it, color it, cut it out, stick it in the oven and -- presto!

Melty Beads

Packaged with 600 big beads that are friendly to little fingers, this book comes with a sturdy plastic pegboard and plenty of inspirational artwork...

Christmas Window Art    Window Art Deluxe Refill Set

Amazing shrinkable plastic. Great window clings!

Spiral Draw Book

With dials and pens, and lots of white space (Webmaster's note: should I admit I got this for my birthday, and I love it?)

Fantastic Foam Book

Apples, airplanes, alligators, arrows, aardvarks and absolutely anything else. Each page is filled with inspirational artwork that can be copied exactly or cheerfully ignored. Either way, the book works brilliantly -- a fenceless playground for boundless imaginations...

Velvet Art

Better than posters, loads of coloring fun!

Quilting

Special deck of 48 design cards makes it addictively easy to arrange colorful triangle squares in countless pleasing patterns.  Then just cut along the dotted lines to get perfectly sized fabric pieces...

Painted Rocks

Rock, paint, what more could you ask?

Face Painting

A fully photographic how-to feast on kids' face painting, with theatrical grade face paints

Sculpture?

The Adventures of Fender Bender: Bendable Wire Bow Wow
The Adventures of Brenda Bender: Bendable Wire Heroine

Four inches tall, made of flexible coated wire with magnet feet and hands, you can pose them any way you want...

Wire-O-Mania: Complete Guide to Making Wire Wonderful Things

Create bracelets, baskets, pencil toppers, rings, pop-up greeting cards -- even history's first hand-made paper clips - out of multi-colored, plastic-coated wire. 40 different projects...

Science

The Explorabook: A Kid's Science Museum in a Book  

Activities in magnetism, light wave craziness, optical illusions, hair dryer science, and bacterial stories

Earthsearch: A Kids' Geography Museum in a Book

Designed for kids, but loved by adults, too!

Backyard Stars: A Guide for Home and the Road

Weatherproof star guide

Battery Science: Make Widgets That Work and Gadgets That Go

The title says it all

Magic

Book of Magic

Great basics and interesting tricks

Magnetic Magic: Magic Tricks Done With Magnets

Nifty magic tricks that rely on the deceptive use of magnets, complete with ten magnets and one magnetizable coin

Coin Magic

Twenty-four of the best coin tricks on the planet, complete with a very sneaky double-headed quarter

Construction

Lego Crazy Action Contraptions

A small bit of impossible machinery - talk about the perfect present for gifted kid!

The Solar Car Book

A Complete Build-It-Yourself Solar Car Kit Including All the Parts, Instructions and Pain-Free Science

Miscellaneous

Encyclopedia of Immaturity

More than 300 entries: How to Skip a Stone, How to Do a Wheelie, How to Hang a Spoon from Your Nose, How to Really Annoy Your Older Sibling… all painstakingly explicated and illuminated with full-color photographs, illustrations, diagrams, and the occasional footnote...

Smoothies: 22 Frosty Fruit Drinks

An all-star collection of in-the-blender concoctions. No cooking required, about six minutes from start to stomach, and all can be made any time of year (with frozen or fresh fruit). Comes with a custom spatula...

Stop! the Watch: A Book of Everyday, Ordinary, Anybody Olympics

Some spectacularly ordinary Olympic events -- like switching your shoelaces -- done for time...

The Body Book: Recipes for Natural Body Care

A spa in a book, including nail buffer, facial brush, pumice stone, three essential oils (lavender, peppermint and tangerine) and more for teens and tweens...

Kids Cooking: A Very Slightly Messy Manual

Recipes for beginning cooks, including fried eggs, applesauce, and tuna wiggle sandwiches. Plus recipes for nonedibles like face paint...

Young Kids

Amazing Lacing

Make a purple sheep or a loopy caterpillar...

Bubble Thing 

Castle: A Fold-Out Kingdom 

An entire 3-D medieval kingdom. Some of the beautifully illustrated, durable pages flip up to become mighty castle walls, while others fold out to make a murky moat. Add parapets, ladders, and your choice of backdrops and the stage is set for a royal romp. Bring out the included king, queen, prince, princess, jester, jousters, knights, and fire-breathing dragon — not to mention the fully functional catapult — and let the adventures begin!

Clothespin Cuties 

Consider the clothespin: a homey, humble, little object – trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly and, of course, hopelessly out of date. It needs a makeover! Six simple steps turn a clothespin into a seriously adorable mermaid, princess or ballerina...

Crayon Rubbings: A Bumpity Coloring Book 

Great fun, with regular, glitter, and rainbow crayons!

Foam Book

Apples, airplanes, alligators, arrows, aardvarks and absolutely anything else. Each page is filled with inspirational artwork that can be copied exactly or cheerfully ignored. Either way, the book works brilliantly -- a fenceless playground for boundless imaginations...

Foam Gliders 

5 easy to build and fly designs!

Fun with Felt 

Fifty fuzzy shapes magically grip to fuzzy pages.  Instructions show how to form felt flowers, faces, bugs, animals, rockets and more. Add pompoms and a supply of rainbow yarn for pizzazz. And keep it all in a snap-tight pouch on the cover...

Googly Eyes

A fully photographic gallery of googly transformations -- common household objects turned into a flock of fabulous faces

Hand Art

Everything you can make with hand tracings: dragons, frogs, dogs, aliens, ducks, cats, monsters, skunks, peacocks, people...

Highlight this book

Uniquely designed for young kids wielding highlighters. There are dot-to-dots to uncover, mazes to run, hidden pictures to find and pages to color...

How to Tell Time

Among the topics: How come time stops at the dentist? Why do grown-ups care so much about the time? What exactly happens when the short hand disappears behind the long hand?

Icky Poo Games 

Two Icky Poo paddle ropes and a booklet of five icky games...

Little Letters: Your First Letter-writing Set

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, plus stickers and more!

Magic Painting 

Imagine you’re randomly brushing paint on a blank page when suddenly a picture begins appearing in white against the watercolor background. Want more magic? Our paints are real watercolors yet kid-friendly and non-permanent...

Make Your Own Tiaras

The universal fashion accessory -- something you could wear anywhere from a coronation to the pediatrician...

Magnetic A to Z

There's more to do with magnetic letters than you can imagine!

Melty Beads

Packaged with 600 big beads that are friendly to little fingers, this book comes with a sturdy plastic pegboard and plenty of inspirational artwork...

Penny Games

25 pennies to play dozens of games, from Penny Pile Up to Finish-the-Caterpiller, and there's always spare "tokens" in Mom's purse!

Pop Bead Critters

Beads that snap together, snap apart and can make necklaces perfect for fashion-frenzy dress-up parties...

Pop Bead People 

A new milestone in pop culture: Pop Bead People. While wanna-beads out there come in one shape (only round, good for nothing but necklaces and stuff), now find pop beads shaped like heads, bodies, feet and all the other parts you need to make a new set of friends...

Rescue Trucks

For the young emergency enthusiast. Pages fold out and turn into extra-long highways -- full-color playscapes featuring all sorts of calamities...

Shadow Games

A flashlight, a darkened room - magic!

The Superhero Starter Kit 

Comes with its own cape, stickers and more...

Super Scissors Book 

Cut, fold and tape your way to fun crafts!

Tree House Bugs 

It's a craft, it's a playscape, it's two books in one! Easy how-to art shows you how to turn paper wings, stickers and pipe cleaners into adorable bug buddies. The book opens up into a three room tree house that you furnish with punch-out paper furniture...

Tricky Stickies 

30 custom self-adhering removable stickies to use as playing pieces for sticky note games and activities...

Utterly Elegant Tea Parties 

Delicious recipes for real food (no cooking of course), two pages of punchout place mats, place cards and menus, and a  complete mini-tea set that includes cups, saucers, plates and silverware, along with a real, pouring teapot...

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Last updated December 01, 2020