Crafty Feat

My 8-year-old Kate fractured her toe on Monday night, so she had to spend Tuesday morning at the office with Mom before the requisite trek to the doctor. She can easily just hang out and watch movies or listen to music, but she was drawn to the bright, friendly box on my shelf proclaiming, "Make Your Own Animal Puppets."

She occupied herself for a few hours with this fun craft project from Creativity for Kids ($17.99), despite the fact that the kit was part of the company's expanded preschool line (which includes the make Your Own Alphabet Book and Make Your Own Number Book).

She had fun crafting a zebra, flamingo and an elephant out of some super-soft socks and the kit's peel-and-stick googly eyes, beaks, ears and other animal parts.

Creativity for Kids offers several arts and crafts projects for creative kids of all ages, and the company donates 5% of the proceeds from its new preschool products to the International Child Art Foundation.

And Kate has some new sock friends who helped keep her mind off her broken toe!