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How Can You Promote Creativity In Your Children? 
The people at Klutz Books are the masters at encouraging creativity in children and having a lot of fun in the process - And your child will love these great procuts as they learn and play.  Klutz Books has products for learning science, crafts, accessorizing, magic, coin collecting and so much more.

The Activity Book has pages of inspired crayon and paper play- Including hidden pictures, fold-ups and games.  Create Anything with Clay - learn techniques to create projects.

Science... How do you teach science to your kids if you are not a scientist?  Klutz Books does it  by making science fun.  Battery Science teaches the real science behind electricity. Explorabook is a kids science museum in a book. Winner of the parents choice award-the pages reflect, magnify or grow as you follow the instructions. Learn about solar energy by making a cool Solar Car.

Want to pass along traditional and very useful skills?                                    Klutz Books does just that with the following books: Quilting, Knitting, Simple Sewing, Kids Cooking, Embroidery, potholders and more. Each book has the instructions and supplies to actually finish a project!

Help Girls to accessorize on their own!                                                                Give her the tools to create her own personalized accessories with Beaded Bobby Pins, Picture Tags (create charm bracelets), Rainbow hairstyles, Spool Knit Jewelry, Window Art (another favorite of my daughter-she decorated our shower door and her own windows), Friendship Bracelets from simple to amazing designs.

Want to Encourage healthy and active lifestyles for your children?           Klutz Books has fun books to promote physical activity.  The Big Bubble Thing- Imagine creating a bubble up to 30 feet long! Of course this fun activity requires quite a bit of movement.  Slingchute - a 32" parachute that flies up to 40 feet high- Give it a toss!

Klutz was incorporated in 1977 in Palo Alto, California, by three friends from Stanford University. They began by selling sidewalk juggling lessons along with a trio of no-bounce bean bags. A week's effort earned the group $35. "It was then we realized the sky was the limit." John Cassidy, the English major of the group, put the instructions in book form and titled it Juggling for the Complete Klutz. Darrell Lorentzen, the business major, wrote up the original business plan and the other partner, B.C. Rimbeaux, was assigned the task of getting a bank loan. Mr. Rimbeaux was a psychology major.

The first 3,000 books were distributed via bicycle and backpack, and sales grew from there. "It really was a failed scam," explains Cassidy, who remains the creative force of the company. "Our dream was to do a book on juggling, sell a bazillion in a couple of days, buy an island and retire. It didn't work out. After a year of steady, unspectacular sales, we found ourselves staring down the barrel of a career." Today, how-to books from Klutz come packaged with the tools of their trade (from juggling cubes to face paints to yo-yos), and are designed for doing, not just reading.

"We think people learn best through their hands, nose, feet, mouth and ears. Then their eyes. So we design multi-sensory books," Cassidy says. The appeal of this hands-on approach is borne out by sales figures; Klutz is a fixture on U.S. book and toy bestseller lists, and is available in 24 countries around the world. Having expanded the offerings to include Klutz Toys, Klutz Kits, Klutz Buckets, Klutz Guides and, in 2001, an educational product line, Cassidy seems to have an unlimited supply of ideas. The inspiration? "I marinate myself in children," he says. "Some years ago, I created a few. With the help of my wife" (Nancy Cassidy, the voice behind the gold-record-winning KidsSongs recordings). In 2002, Scholastic Inc., the largest children's book publisher and distributor in the world, acquired Klutz. For those of you who collect corporate mission statements, here's the Klutz credo: Create wonderful things, be good, have fun.