Create

Welcome to The Book Tree’s Create space. 

This is where we use books as springboards for creativity and having fun! We explore ways we can encourage children to express their creative skills in a variety of mediums, from making art works to creative writing and creative thinking. We also have a few resources which we’ve created or linked to.  Feel free to share them, please just credit The Book Tree or the source we use.

We Heart Art

ART is the best way to flex creative skills.  We highlight art classes run by inspired teachers and exhibitions and art events suitable for children. We invite artists to share their creative exercises to get children creating.

Art Class

Art teacher Gill Haggis shared a wonderful art class with us.  Imaginate is a wildly creative art space run from Johannesburg, South Africa. Click here to get inspired!

How to Make Your Own Book

This is the easiest craft activity for children age 5 – 10.  Just add scissors, stapler and colouring in pens and get your kids to make their own story books. Welcome to our new authors!

Creative Writing Tips

Check out 3 top tips for helping children with creative writing skills.

Creative Resources

How to write a book review, writing prompts, vocabulary lists, reading progress reports and more.  Find our resources here.

Start a Book Club

We’ve got great tips for starting your own Book Club with friends.

10 Books to Inspire Creative Thinking

We’ve rounded up 10 of the best books to inspire creative thinking for children. More than ever, we have to educate young people to think for themselves and decide what is right and wrong, what is true and false and what is good for everyone. We also have to teach them how to think ‘out the box’ from the very beginning.

How to Make Your Own Book

This is an easy home craft for children to make on their own. The joy is in writing and creating your own story. Perfect for age 5 -10 and little supervision needed.

Three Creative Writing Tips

Boost your child’s creative writing skills by following these three tips: get dramatic, write what they know and touch and feel their words.

Create Art – The Beautiful Oops!

Encourage your children to transform their ‘mistakes’ into a work of art in our Imaginate art class, inspired by author Barney Saltzberg. Art teacher Gill Haggis shares her fun class on how to make masterpieces out of mistakes. Creative thinking and artistic fun teaches children how to turn setbacks around.

Art Series

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Children’s Book Of Art

Send your children on an artistic journey around the world with this comprehensive children’s introduction to art.

A Passionate Vision – The Story of Irma Stern

The story of Irma Stern, one of South Africa’s most famous artists, is shared in this wonderfully written biography, perfect for young artists and scholars.

The Story Cure

No matter the life experience, adventure or challenge a child is going through, I always find myself thinking: ‘There’s a book for that!’ And now there is a book to tell you which book they should read.

Drawing Made Easy

By E.G Lutz (Lom Art - an imprint of Micheal O'Mara books) First printed in 1921, this is the book credited with inspiring Walt Disney's animation career. A simple step-by-step breakdown of how to draw using basic shapes and drawing everything from birds and animals...

Press Here

This award wining creative book is a gift to children. Wonderfully interactive and fun, you’re invited to press the yellow dot. Turn the page and it doubles, turn through the next pages and you’re invited to shake the pages, tilt the book and find out what happens next.

Lets make More great placemat art

Making art fun is Marion Deuchars’ calling. Her range of Let’s make Great Art books inspire creativity, design and art for people of all ages. Making place mat art is just what it sounds like – fun activities that can be made at the dinner table.

Discover Through Craft: The Seaside

Craft books are perfect for long holidays and this series educates children about seaside habitats while offering great creative ideas, perfect for a beach excursion.

Katie Meets The Impressionists

This delightful book was lent to us by a friend and we hardly wanted to give it back. Katie and her grandma visit the art gallery for her grandma’s birthday. Katie is gazing at a picture of The Luncheon by Claude Monet when she spies a garden in the backdrop.

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in”

Robert Louis Stevenson

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