The Kids' Book of Sticker Love is packed with tons of creative ideas and crafty projects for kids to make with their hands, paper goodies to create and decorate, and stickers of all stripes: vinyl stickers, glow-in-the-dark stickers, glitter and metallic stickers, photo corners, alphabet stickers, and more. Put it all together and you've got hours and hours of screen-free fun. Organized in four sections, there's stuff to Craft?like a set of origami finger puppets with animal eyes, ears, whisker and nose stickers, or a geometric necklace to make out of colorful dot stickers and paper cutouts. There's a Write section?use colorful alphabet stickers to compose a note; record your favorite things in seasonal DIY notebooks. Next is a Play section?have fun with projects like sticker-based tangrams. And a Share section?decorate your bedroom ceiling with classic glow-in-the-dark star and constellation stickers, or cut and fold tiny patterned paper gift bags and seal them with a matching sticker. No matter the activity, the emphasis is on the doing?and finding the pleasure and value that comes with the creative process.

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From the WRITE section:

• Envelope templates to cut out and fold—with matching stickers to seal them up! (Write a note to your future self every week for a month, then open them 4 months later.)
• Decorate a blank notebook with patterned paper. Sketch in and sticker the pages!
• Express yourself with “I am ____.” label stickers.
• Use the colorful alphabet stickers to write a thank you note.

• Fold and bind a small photo book—use photo corner stickers to insert printed art, or draw your own!
• Fold an origami menagerie—use eye stickers to complete each animal (paper ducks, whales, penguins, and more!).
• Stickers you can wear: make a necklace using colorful dot stickers and other paper cutouts.
• Store your growing sticker collection in a paper pillow box, cut and folded from the included template.

• “Stick” the horn on the narwhal game.
• Play sticker-based tangrams!
• Use rearrange-able astro-themed stickers on a four-panel, fold-out outer space scene.
• Complete a paint-by-sticker scene!

• Decorate your bedroom ceiling with classic glow-in-the-dark star and constellation stickers!
• Cut and fold tiny patterned paper gift bags, and seal them with a matching sticker.
• Add stickers to a mindful travel map to record your daydream destinations.
• Decorate a laptop, bike, or water bottle with an oversized vinyl sticker.

Irene Smit is the cofounder and creative director of Flow magazine, a popular international publication packed with paper goodies and beautiful illustrations that celebrates creativity, imperfection, and life's little pleasures. She lives outside Amsterdam.

Astrid van der Hulst is the cofounder of Flow magazine, a popular international publication packed with paper goodies and beautiful illustrations that celebrates creativity, imperfection, and life's little pleasures. She lives outside Amsterdam.

Flow magazine, created by Irene Smit and Astrid van der Hulst, is a popular international publication packed with paper goodies and beautiful illustrations that celebrates creativity, imperfection, and life's little pleasures.