1000 things to make and do

Press & Blog Reviews

An amazing art and craft book to keep your child fully entertained during holidays, rainy days and even play days with friends... there is something to suit boys and girls of all ages and abilities.
First4Dads

Brimming with activities, this book is an excellent resource.
Creative Steps Magazine

The perfect book for a rainy day. It’s also great for the school library for finding ideas to keep children entertained. I highly recommend it.’
The Bookette blog

Reader Reviews

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Very popular at home and school
I have this activity book at home for my children and at school for my students. It has fresh, fun ideas that children of all ages can do. My seven year old can be found most days, drawing or experimenting based on the activities in the book. Even my four year old enjoys the art projects. This book has come in very handy at school as well with my grade threes and fours. Everyone who enjoys being creative should own this book. I have purchased it as gifts for several people as well. There is an endless amount of fun that can be made right in your kitchen with 1000 Things to Make and Do!
Jennifer Nevison, 7th January 2013

big book of science things to do and make
I loved making the cool activities. My favorite is baking the bread. It tasted very good.
sarah, 25th May 2009

Perfect for young experimenter and neat-freak Mum alike.
This is the best children's experiments / activity book I have seen! (I'm an Usborne Books at Home organiser, and an engineer.) The projects are interesting, very effective, quick to complete, and do not require too many obscure materials. My 5 year old can manage most of the projects with only minimum help, without covering half the kitchen with "experimental by products". (Known as "a lot of mess" to you and me ....) It's suitable for older children too - perhaps up to 9-10 years old. It's not a babyish book at all.
EmmaR., 1st December 2008

Best book for 4 year olds
My son and I toddled over to the bookstore on Thursday afternoon. Normally we'd have hit the library, but he wanted a book that was "MINE, and I NEVER have to give it back again". So we browsed around for an 'experiment' book. We hit on the Usborne Big Book of Science things to make and do" I must admit my partiality, having done selling for Usborne for 3 years while in Spain. But besides that, it really was the nicest illustrated and most appealing to a 4 year old. And most appealing to the mother, since all the experiments and things to make and do appeared to use stuff I had hanging around in the house. Well, since then we've been having a ball. Unlike the fiddly girl stuff in the girlie make and do books, all the stuff here only uses bits of cardboard or paper, elastic bands, sticky tape and straws! And they really work, and more importantly, the cool factor is really high. The cool factor is really really important to 4 year olds! We've done / made about 4 things now, and they really have only taken stuff I had in the house and they only take minutes to make. The kids should be in bed, but we've just made some great catapult paper aeroplanes, so they're having a wonderful time launching these into space!
gweipo, 28th January 2008