If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll know that I love inspiring creativity and imagination in my kids (though I don’t always love the mess that comes with it).
So, I love these mess-free books that will get your kids’ creative juices flowing! Whether it’s art, writing, or inventing, there’s a book on this list for them.
Bookworm Journal: A Reading Log for Kids (and Parents)–-I just got this adorable journal for my older kids. It’s so much more than a way to keep track of books. It has book lists, creative prompts, and even a perforated corner on each page so your little bookworm can “eat” their way through this book.
My Crazy Inventions Sketchbook is a super-fun idea generator. My son got this book for Christmas and loves it. If you have a future inventor in your house, this is the book for them.
642 Things to Draw: Journal
642 Things to Write About: Young Writer’s Edition is full of fun writing prompts for kids. 642 of them, to be exact.
Q & A a Day for Kids—This three-year journal has a prompt for each day. Kids can compare their answers year to year. This would make a fun, daily activity and a lovely keepsake.
Rip the Page!: Adventures in Creative Writing by Karen Benke looks like a fun, creativity jump-start! It’s full of advice, questions, and room to write. Forget about the kids, I want one of these!
Keri Smith has tons of fun books your creative tweens to teens will love ripping, writing and drawing in. Finish This Book, The Imaginary World Of…, and Wreck This Journal (in its many forms) look especially fun.
Love my drawing journal you gave me, “642 Things to Draw Journal”. The Grandkids have drawn in it too! Thanks.
That’s fun! I didn’t know they were helping you out with it. 🙂
These look like so much fun! Usborne books has a lot of great drawing and doodling books as well–my girls have loved those. I’ll have to add these to our wishlist 🙂
Usborne always has such high-quality books. Are you a distributor?
I’m not, but we’ve accumulated a rather impressive collection of their books through school fundraisers. I suppose you could call me a groupie 🙂
Nice! I have a few of their non-fiction from when we tried Sonlight, and I thought they were very well done and interesting for the kids. I’m not one either, but I’ve been curious about it. 🙂
Their books are just awesome! We recently did an Usborne book fair for the students and my girls (and I) came home with about two dozen new books–and they were all great 🙂
Haha! Sounds dangerous! For your wallet! But lots of fun, I’m sure! 😉
More fun than the books I had as a kid – but I enjoyed the ones I did have anyway and enjoyed spending the book tokens that were often given as prizes here in the UK.
I was encouraged to write in text books at university – underlining things that were useful, highlighting other bits, making notes in them to keep the notes alongside whatever they were noting about.
Anything that gets people more involved with books is a good idea in my view.
Book tokens sounds like such a neat idea! What a fun memory from your childhood. 🙂