Let's Sticker & Paste! (Kumon First Steps Workbooks) Paperback – Illustrated, September 30, 2005

I recently discovered Kumon books and I am so glad I found them! They are really so wonderful; every child should be given these books to have creative fun! LET'S STICKER AND PASTE is part of the Kumon First Steps series, designed for ages 2 and up. I am using these with my son who is 8 yrs. old, and he also is using the Kumon books for older children, and he loves them all! Some children are slower to learn skills of cutting and pasting, holding pencils, etc. These Kumon books are fun and gentle ways to help children develop these skills.LET'S STICKER AND PASTE is a very fun book containing 39 projects. We have worked through most of them. Projects 1-16 are double sided and involve using the enclosed stickers to finish the project. Projects 1-6 have the child freely use the stickers to make a playground scene, pasture scene, bugs on leaves, birds in the sky, a safari scene, fish in an aquarium, etc. Two projects have the child use stickers to dress the boy for winter play, and to decorate the girls apron. And the remaining have stickers the child places at a certain place to cover over the white area on the carrot, apple, orange, cucumber, etc. This is good preparation for being careful and learning correct placement. Projects 17 on use cut outs (parent cuts the objects out) for the child to place and glue onto the picture. I recommend using a glue stick or, our favorite, a ZIG brand glue pen. It's smaller applicator makes applying glue so easy for the child. We bought ours at Walmart in the scrapbooking department. Projects 17 on are printed on one side of the page, and involve the child pasting parts over a watermelon, the face on a horse or fox, the nose on a koala, the beak on the duck, the eyes, nose, and mouth on a panda and pig, etc. Some include 3-D type glue ons, such as a strip that sticks out to be the monkey or hippo's mouth, or the chick's beak sticks out. These are all very simple, and the results are statisfying! Projects 30 and 31 have the child gluing candles and decorations on a cake, or toys into the toy box. Pages 33-37 have the child glue the missing half on the frog, the plane, or they have 2-4 pieces to glue on like putting the missing squares in to finish the picture. And these are pictures of fire trucks, diggers, boats, etc. The last 2 projects are letting the child dab glue over the sky and sprinking on small cut out squares (the parent cuts these) to make snow falling on the snowman, or pink squares will be blossoms on the cherry tree. This book is lots and lots of fun that will provide parents and children with meaningful time spent together. It would make a great gift (along with a glue pen!) for the child who seems to have everything. I also recommend the other 3 books in this series: LET'S CUT PAPER, LET'S COLOR, and LET'S FOLD. I am reviewing them all, plus the other Kumon books. Enjoy!

As an Educator and Mommy of a 2yr old, I have found this book to be great as a fun education tool to help little ones fine motor skills, ability to follow directions, listening, and focusing. My son is so busy having fun, he does not know he is being guided, just thinks he is playing, which is how young children learn best. The book is progressive, as all the books in the series and really allows for success from the start, challenging but not frustrating. I would say 2 is the appropiate age for this and "More Let's Sticker and Paste". I think older children may find it fun, but it would lack the challenge aspect for them, unless thier fine motor is a little delayed.I also think this book series would be great in the K-2 special education classroom, where fine motor skills often lack. Could set them up in the writing center or bring them out during explore time. Preface contains usefull parental information about how thes skills develop and give tips and guidance for furthering children's development.

Our 2 year old loves these books. This is her second one. She received one meant for 5yr olds as a gift and was still able to do almost all the pictures. My only complaints are that these books pages aren’t perforated, for this one cause it’s a small note pad isn’t that terrible although it does start to come apart when the page count is low. The stickers also have small edges, if not carefully peeled your toddler will rip them. So i needed to pre-peel them for her. I still give it five stars because our child loves them and it’s a fun activity to do with her. She asks for it often.

I purchased the larger Kumon Book My First Book Of Cutting (Kumon Workbooks), whcih works great when we're at home. But when we travel, I needed something more compact that would fit in my 3 year old's backpack.The sticker portion is great to work on when you're on a plane or in a car. We haven't started the cutting and pasting section, but we plan to work on that on our next road trip. I LOVE these books! They help me introduce basic skills to my child and re-enforce skills that he's learning in pre-school.

My 2 1/2 year old daughter has really enjoyed this book. She sat down and worked (with me) on it for about 40 minutes the first day I got it out. An eternity for my very active child. However, it required me to cut up into each page and cut out shapes (that get more and more "complex") for her to paste. I knew it would require my assistance but my cutting takes MUCH longer than her pasting. She loved the sticker pages (which were super cute - putting scarf, mittens and boots on a little boy was my favorite) and she could do those (mostly) by herself. However, IMO, there weren't enough sticker pages - she went through all of those on our first sitting. All said, she really does enjoy the book, I just wished it was formatted where you could punch out the pictures to be pasted - she might would even learn another skill that way!

Cant say enough how awesome the kumon books are. They were very effective for us. They gradually teach the child the skill. I as a parent especially love that on each page it instructs you what to say and do, and let's you know what to expect- "its ok if your child does.." eventually she will learn offer encouragement etc.. excellent! And yes by the end my child did learn to sticker and paste and it was effortless, also nice to see how far they have come! Highly recommended. I will only add that for me I tore out the page and would present it ( no pressure) then I would ask do you want to do another? and went from there, I found it awkward to work within the book and I think it would make it harder for your child to sticker or paste.