Wild and Free Handcrafts: 32 Activities to Build Confidence, Creativity, and Skill

The companion to The Call of the Wild + Free : styled in the lush aesthetic of the Wild + Free brand, a four-color book offering crafts, activities, and essays, that parents, educators, and caregivers can use to inspire their children.

Wild + Free Handcrafts is a beautiful, four-color resource book for parents, educators, and caregivers to enjoy doing hands-on activities with kids. A handcraft engages one’s hands, requires a level of learned skill, encourages children to do their best work, and produces an end product that is useful. It has been used in homeschool settings for decades as one way to encourage them to work with their hands and discover a skillful craft they love to practice. It also is a great way for traditionally educated kids who are home for the summer, or in afterschool programs, or with their families on the weekends, to do fun, screen-free activities that will stimulate their imaginations and creativity.

This book will feature a variety of nature crafts such as:

Felted acorns

Paper beads

Nature wreaths

Cocoa mint lip balm

Woven willow hearts

Finger knit bracelets

Eco-dyed kitchen towels

Fairy tale treehouse

Flower crowns

Bug hotel

With the same lush photography as The Call of the Wild + Free , this book includes step-by-step pictures that show parents how to do the craft, and essays on the usefulness and purpose of handcrafts as a tool to spark children’s curiosity and wonder.