Books published by publisher Klutz Chicken Socks

This book rediscovers (and resimplifies) classic hand shadows. It comes with all the tools of the shadow-making trade: punch-out shadow puppets, special die-cut projection pages for shadow show times, and a flashlight (of course!). Shadow Games is a complete package of instruction, tools, fun, and creativity-batteries included.Comes With: Custom-designed flashlight, 3 pages of punch-out shadow puppets, 2 die-cut projection pages• Create wonderful things • Be good • Have fun

As any parent can testify, the appeal of tape is universal. Hand a kid a roll of tape and the rest is sticky history. Clearly, this impulse is way too strong to fight so... Announcing a book filled with "tape-me" pages, along with four rolls of colorful kid-friendly paper tape (no scissors required). Each page is a different activity. Make a match, build the train tracks or just "paint" the whole picture in colored tape. Totally Tape pairs an irresistible activity with only-from-Klutz creativity. All we had to do was stick the two together.Comes With: 4 rolls of tape• Create wonderful things • Be good • Have fun

WARNING:CHOKING HAZARD! Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.This book includes fuzzy striped pipe cleaner stems, fresh green paper leaves, and 72 pre-cut sets of crepe and origami paper petals in gorgeous colors and patterns. Simple, step-by-step pictures and directions make it easy to create individual blossoms, bouquets, corsages and frilly flower crowns. All without a single pair of scissors or even a smidgen of glue. We also dreamed up some adorable extras, like a punch-out vase, gift tags and cute-as-a-bug stickers.Comes With: 72 crepe and origami paper petals, 8 striped pipe cleaners, 12 paper leaves, 8 paper collars, 1 sheet of stickers• Create wonderful things • Be good • Have fun

Rescue Trucks is ideal for the young emergency enthusiast. Its pages fold out and turn into extra-long highways featuring all sorts of calamities: fallen bridges, flooded highways, forest fires and so on. Activities include build-‘em yourself paper-tube tunnels and shoe-box bridges. The 4 ready-to-roll rescue vehicles will get you started in the field of search and rescue, tabletop style.

WARNING:CHOKING HAZARD! Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.Three of this book's pages are heavy-gauge steel, silk-screened with helpful art on both sides. The other 15 pages are cardstock and filled with the familiar Klutz wit and imagination. The 26 custom-made magnets go from A to Z in brightly colored, finger-friendly letters. With the assistance of our editorial goofballs, early readers are led through lettering as well as a little recess time making letter pictures. (Turns out you can make a fine caterpillar out of a capital B and D. Who knew?)Comes With: 26 all-capital magnetsin 4 custom colors, 3 metal pages• Create wonderful things • Be good • Have fun

WARNING:CHOKING HAZARD! Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.Ordinary markers seem pretty ordinary when compared to highlighters. And ordinary highlighters seem really ordinary when compared to the super-cool, 5-in-1, whizzer-keen, neon highlighter attached to this book. There are dot-to-dots to uncover, mazes to run, hidden pictures to find and pages to color, including an aquarium filled with black and white tropical fish. The whole package is cool and colorful fun starring the world's first really magical 5-in-1 marker.Comes With: 5-in-1 highligther pen• Create wonderful things • Be good • Have fun

CAUTION:Scissors have functional sharp edges. Not recommended for children under 4Kids are irresistibly drawn to scissors so naturally they'll love this book to pieces. Cut up the pages, add some tape and suddenly you've got a flock of finger puppets, a flying carpet, a pot full of posies — and that's just the beginning. In all, there are 13 projects, with fully illustrated instructions so simple even a parent could follow them. Toss in two pairs of brightly colored, kid-friendly scissors (one straight-edged, one snaggletooth) and 140 pieces of pre-cut tape and you've got a craft book thats a cut above the rest.Comes With: 2 kid-friendly scissors, 1 sheet of precut pieces• Create wonderful things • Be good • Have fun

WARNING:CHOKING HAZARD! Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.Clothespin Cars comes with three brightly colored, old-fashioned clothespins along with specially designed rolling axles and wheels. They fit together without glue so assembly is a snap. Junior automotive designers can add their choice of cardboard punch-outs and decals to make a racecar, a fire truck, a hot rod, a bus, a police car, whatever they feel like driving today. The book itself has clear instructions, along with ideas for play. There are even props to cut out and tape together, like city buildings, a gas station, and traffic signs.Comes With: 3 painted wodden clothespins, 14 wheels and 6 axels, cardboard punch-out card bodies• Create wonderful things • Be good • Have fun

What are Crayon Rubbings? Imagine taking a regular old boring coloring book and slipping pieces of super-bumpy sandpaper between the pages. Now use special sparkly crayons to do your coloring. The results are multi-dimensional, multi-cool, multi-bump crayon rubbings. Of course, OUR sandpapers are durable plastic designed with stars, swirls, waves and other cool textures. And OUR coloring book was created by our favorite (what budget?) illustrators. Crayon Rubbings comes complete with eight different plastic rubbing textures, 5 glitter crayons, a rainbow crayon brick and 34 pages of color-them-yourself pictures. It's art that goes bumpity bump bump right off the page.Comes With: 8 rubbings plates, 6 glitter crayons, 1 rainbow crayon brick• Create wonderful things • Be good • Have fun

Future party planners, pen pals and all purpose keep-in-touchers will love Little Letters, the most adorable kids' stationery set ever. It's 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, charmingly illustrated. But did we stop there? (Do we ever?) We also threw in three full pages of custom-designed stickers, an easy-to-make doorknob mailbox, a portfolio with bonus postcards and a plastic template that lets kids transform a plain old piece of paper into a personalized envelope.Comes With: 9 note cards, 8 postcards, 8 envelopes, 22 envelope cards, a doorknob mailbox. envelope template, 3 sheets of stickers• Create wonderful things • Be good • Have fun