“Crafty kids and their parents will love the projects. They’re greatlooking, useful, and mostly easy, and making them will both create and preserve summertime memories.” --Melanie Falick, author of the best-selling Kids Knitting and Weekend Knitting

If ever there was a great beach read for parents, this is it. Summer Crafts is bursting with beautiful and inventive crafts for the whole family, whether they’re on a waterfront holiday or wishing they were. Make backpacks or beach totes; mermaid dolls; chessboards and backgammon games; a set of building blocks out of driftwood; and lots of inventive projects with seashells and rocks. This book offers easy instructions, tons of photographs, and lots of ideas for customizing creations.

About the Author

Writer and artisan Marjorie Galen managed rock bands for years before turning her passion for making crafts into a full-time job. Her photographs have been published in The New York Times, TimeOut NY, and Automobile magazine.