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If you are looking for fun activity books, easy holiday gifts, or even books to keep the kids busy on the way to Grandma’s this holiday season, then you need to check out all the great offerings from Dover Publications! My daughter had a chance to review 7 amazing books. They’re not only a great way to occupy the kids, they’re also a fabulous confidence-booster! Just the other day my daughter ran up to me, so proud she had colored well in between the lines! Check out our favorite Dover books, read on for a chance to win your own set! Plus, don’t miss our special discount code from Dover, just in time for the holidays!
7 Amazing Activity Books That Will Keep Your Kids From Saying “Are We There Yet”
Marvelous Me! A Personalized Coloring Book
This Marvelous Me! A Personalized Coloring Book was the biggest surprise of the package! It was so much fun! So you take two pictures of your child’s face and tape it into the book. Each coloring page ha a hole in it so you see the child’s face through all of the pages. You’re then coloring a picture of the little kiddo dressed up as something. Think of this like those dress up photo stops you stick your head through and take a picture, but portable and you can color it!
All About Marvelous Me A Draw And Write Journal
This is a fun book that is a great way to look back on your kid’s hopes, dreams, and preferences when they get bigger! The book asks things like where would you go on your dream vacation, what new ice cream flavor would you create, and even draw yourself at the age you are right now. If your child isn’t reading it is a book you can work through with them, but it’s also fun for the older elementary aged kids too.
Art From Simple Shapes
This was another surprise book from Dover Publications, and I’m so glad they sent it to us! Mom, look at all the things you can draw from shapes, my daughter said. This book includes a stencil for practicing basic shapes, and lots of visual instructions on how to draw various ideas like dinosaurs, penguins and ice cream cones. I can see this book easily being an activity that’s fun if you have two children of different ages. One can be drawing shapes, while the older works on more detailed pictures. We loved the Art From Simple Shapes book!
The Bernstein Bears Storytime Treasure
The Bernstein Bears Storytime Treasure isn’t an activity book; it’s more of a giant soft sided storybook. The four seasons talk about family, the four season, going grocery shopping and bedtime. We have long been a fan the Bernstein Bears, and this book with its big colorful images is amazing. It’s the perfect size to slide in your suitcase when you travel for bedtime.
Hidden Pictures: Coloring & Puzzle Fun
My daughter really enjoyed this puzzle book, and the images are detailed enough that the hunting is fun. Once I showed her how the book works, she could work through the puzzles on her own even though she’s not reading quite yet.
My First Book About Backyard Nature
My First Book About Backyard Nature is fun and is aimed at the elementary level kid. Each page was almost a mini field guide to different types of animals, plants, and bugs you find commonly in the backyard. We thoroughly enjoyed identifying some of the leaves we had collected, and I can see many more backyard explorations to come!
Pretty Ponies Paper Dolls
These ponies and all seventy-five of their outfits delighted my child. From a masquerade to a pajama party, to playing soccer in our living rooms, these ponies had an outfit for everything. While the ponies themselves pop out easily of the book, the outfits do need to be cut by hand. I’m saving the rest of this book for my kiddo to play with her Auntie at the holidays.
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My son would love backyard nature.
I think they would love The Bernstein Bears Storytime Treasure
My kiddos would LOVE these activity books!
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My daughter loves learning how to draw! I think she’d first go to the Art From Simple Shapes book!
Love the backyard nature book! I think my niece would love learning about what’s around her!
My daughter would love the Berenstain Bears book the most
The backyard Nature would be cool
My daughter would love the, “Art From Simple Shapes,” book!
Pretty Pony Paper dolls and Hidden Pictures, they seem super cute and fun!
my son would love backyard nature
I would love to win this for my niece:) she deserves it! Thanks for the chance.
I think they would love Berenstain Bears book!
My daughter would enjoy Art From Simple Shapes
My girls would love the Pretty Ponies Paperdolls book because they are wild about both ponies and dolls.
Kids do need a lot of intellectual and creative stimulation. These look like they deliver.
My kids would like the Art From Simple Shapes book
The Berenstein Bears were my favorite as a kid. I would love to share with the little ones in my life.
I love the personalized coloring book. We don’t do a lot of traveling, but with the holiday breaking coming soon, I’m going to need something to keep them entertained.
My kids would love the The Bernstein Bears Storytime Treasure
I think they would most like the The Bernstein Bears Storytime Treasure and the Art From Simple Shapes.
So many good options for road trips. If you start doing that when they are young, it makes every road trip much easier.
That’s an awesome giveaway! These all looks like some great activity books for children. My son love Bernstein Bears story book.
These are all great activity books. I know my kids would love them!
Even at an older age, I think my girls would like the Art from Shapes one. They could get all creative with it!
These are great activity books. They seem like they would be good for road trips of for sitting at home on a Saturday afternoon.
I’m quite sure it would be The Bernstein Bears Storytime Treasure
Okay the learn how to draw book using shapes is pretty awesome. I was a nerd as a child and I would have adored that! #client
Omg great book suggestions!!!!!! Perfect for my daughter.
I’ve never seen a coloring book like that where you can put the child’s face. That is a fun idea!
I think my kids will enjoy the backyard nature book.
My Grandkids love Activity Books and I buy they so I can keep them busy while they are at my house. It is a Win, Win situation
I think my son would like the hidden pictures the best
I would love any of them, these are absolutely great!! I could have used them today on our three hour drive!
with 5 grandkids here daily they would love both sets …but if I had to choose it would pick Art From Simple Shapes set
My daugher will like
My daughter will like the berenstain bears
All About Marvelous Me! A Draw and Write Journal would be loved and appreciated by my daughter. I encourage her and this would make a great keepsake of an expression of the world through her eyes at this young age.
My kids love the Berenstain Bears
The Marvelous Me! A Personalized Coloring Book sounds super awesome. I’ve never seen anything like that.
My daughter would have the most fun with the Pretty Ponies Paper Dolls .
Hidden pictures or Bernstein Bears
I think it’s special that you are not running this giveaway until after the holiday break. Thank you!
All about marvelous me book!
Which of these activity books do you think my niece and nephew would love most? I think the Bernstein Bears Storytime Treasure
I think the Bernstein Bears Storytime Treasure
Mine would like the Pretty Pony paper dolls
My granddaughter would love to have the Pretty Ponies Paper Dolls book.
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I think our first favorite book in this collection would be My First Book ABout Backyard Nature.
I would like to win a book for the grandkids !
My daughter would love the Hidden Pictures book
All about Marvelous Me would be the grand kids favorite
Backyard Nature would be the favorite. My granddaughter loves to come to our farm so she can find all kinds of bugs and animals to study. She would love this book.
In it to WIN it! Thank You!!!
All about Marvellous Me!
My grandchildren would like the Berenstein Bears Story Time Treasury.
My Grand kids would Love Hidden Pictures: Coloring & Puzzle Fun
I want this for my nieces and nephews.
my grand daughter would like Pretty ponies Paper dolls.
I think the grand kids would love Marvelous Me!
I think my granddaughter would love Hidden Pictures: Coloring & Puzzle Fun.
I think my daughter would love the “Art From Simple Shapes”. She has recently shown a desire to draw and will sit there and watch YouTube videos of people drawing and copy what they are doing!
I think our little guy will love Bernstein Bears Storytime Treasure the most.
I think my grandsons would most enjoy the Art from Simple Shapes book!
I would say The Bernstein Bears Storytime Treasure
I like the Bernstein Bears Storytime Treasure