2013 National Stationery Show – Kids’ Crafts
NSS kid coverage continues with Kids’ Crafts (say that ten times fast). There were a number of vendors offering fun craft kits and supplies for the small fry. Here are just a few of them…
Box Play for Kids was a first-time exhibitor, introducing its fun, eco-friendly stickers to the Show. From tissue boxes to egg cartons to TP tubes, Box Play for Kids’ sticker products transform trash to toys (and teach kids about conservation and recycling along the way).
These beautiful letterpressed woodland animal masks—designed for kids (or grown-ups) to color in—come from Pistachio Press.
What could be more fun than these ninja and robot craft kits from Paper Source for Waste Not Paper? (Suggestion for caregivers: you could challenge your kids to complete the ninja ones in absolutely stealth-mode silence, then go have a cup of tea and savor the quiet time.)
If there is a kid in your life who’s into crafts—wait, let me rephrase. If there is a kid in your life at ALL, they would have walked into the Eeboo booth and refused to leave. Seriously, they probably would have volunteered to be shipped with the booth back to Eeboo headquarters. Eeboo’s booth was so jam-packed with an expanding crafts line, it was practically overflowing into the aisles (so much so, that I never really got past the craft stuff, and into the stationery and toy part of the booth—whoops!).
Clockwise from top: Eeboo’s booth; a cool selection of colored pencil sets; retro-feel, holiday-themed paper chain kits; and their new fancy papers, including corrugate and glitter papers.
Eeboo’s pipe cleaners come in a rainbow of drool-worthy colors and can be made into all sorts of cool stuff (check out the spouting whale!), and their glitter glues are just as varied and beautiful, with a punch of “spahkle.”
Pom pom crafts were well-represented in the Eeboo booth. Featured, here: their pom pom maker kit and the finished product from their pom pom necklace kit (modeled by Angelica Zambetti, who was good enough to show me around the booth—thanks, Angelica!).
That does it for kids’ crafts at the Show—well, it really doesn’t. There was so much more, but in the interest of time, I’m moving on. So, next stop on the NSS kiddo express: kids’ books and miscellaneous.
In the meantime, enjoy your weekend, everyone!
Please note: the image labels I’ve used are not official product names/titles. For more information on any of the products in my posts, please contact the wonderful people who’ve created them.