Cool Kids Crochet

Your child will be the coolest kid on the block! Cool Kids Crochet helps crafty parents create trendy pieces for their kids. This instructional crochet booklet offers eight fun patterns that your kids will love to wear, including Sideways Sweater, Cold Floor Slipper Socks, Chunky Hat and Scarf, So Soft Mittens, Raglan Crewneck Sweater, Visor Beanie, Tweener Cropped Jacket, and Bright Colors Backpack. Each booklet includes an abbreviations section at the front.

Introduces the equipment needed and stitches used for crochet, and presents patterns and ideas for crocheting objects such as best-friend bracelets, belts, headbands, and pillows.

Learn about the basics of fiber arts while creating cool stuff. The Cool Crocheting for Kids title teaches the first steps of how to crochet. Activities will help kids use what they learned to make a beaded bracelet, a fun hat, a cute clutch and more. Custom how-to photos and easy step-by-step instructions make crafting a blast. Don't wait to get cool crafting! Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

The 20 patterns include a range of projects for all seasons, from a tankini for the beach to an autumn poncho. The patterns are contemporary, use lively color palettes, and include garments for both girls and boys plus accessories such as season-appropriate hats. Every pattern includes a materials list, glossary of abbreviations, notes, a difficulty key, and size range.

Easy Crochet for Kids will help you teach your children the basics of crochet in a clear way that's certain not to leave them in a tangle. Claire Montgomerie steps away from traditional methods of teaching crochet to kids and presents 35 brilliant projects that are fun and simple to make learning quick and enjoyable. By working through the easily digestible lessons, children will quickly develop the skills needed to make cool phone holders, mittens, jewellery, hats, dolls, teddy bears and more. There are four chapters, each featuring projects for beginner, intermediate and confident crocheters, so once the simpler projects have been mastered, your child can move on to the next challenge. The comprehensive techniques section describes everything from holding the hook correctly to crocheting in the round. All the stitches needed are explained with helpful photographs and clear instructions and in no time, any child can be working with yarn like a pro, ready to tackle all the patterns. The yarns have been selected for their ease of use and are often specially formulated for children to be kind to skin as well as being durable and easy to wash. Claire also shares tricks and tips gathered from her sell-out crafting classes, where she has taught hundreds of children the joys of crochet.

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20 easy crochet projects for girl and boy apparel and accessories Crochet is cool in elementary school. The kids love the beanies, the retro sweaters, the chunky scarves, the backpack dangles. Moms, grandmothers, and aunts are furiously crocheting for this age group, but they're having trouble finding current patterns, especially for boys. Here are the quick, colorful, fun projects they're looking for. While there are more and more books of hip knitting and crochet for women, this book offers a unique collection of crochet patterns for this special underserved age group. Girls will love the cute hats, sweaters, mini-bags, and hair flair; boys will actually wear the hoody, rugged sweater, skateboarder beanie, and fingerless gloves; and everybody will show off backpack danglies, pencil buddies, and hacky sacks. All the projects featured use the latest yarns, including popular and fun super-soft and very textural yarns in bright in energetic colors. Patterns, with simple stitches, mostly single and double crochet, provide three levels of sizing and classic styles perfect for this age range. Each project includes creative touches that kids will love.