Let's Sticker & Paste! (Kumon First Steps Workbooks)

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.

There are a total of 39 activities and it’s well thought out because you build upon easier skills first (ie: peeling stickers and placing them onto a scene to peeling stickers and attempting to place them onto a designated space). It also has cut and paste that also builds on the skill too (look at photos for difference skill levels). My son (2yr) loved it that he wanted to do it one sitting! Might need to buy another one! As a teacher I can say this is great for fine motor skills as well as hand eye coordination!! These skills can build the foundation for other tasks like holding a pencil and writing!

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 love Kumon as I was once a Kumon kid. So, when I found this book, I was super excited to introduce it to my daughter! When I saw this book's title, I assumed that it would be a lot of sticker activities! My little one loves stickers, so I thought this would be a perfect fit! When I received the book, I was a bit disappointed in the amount of stickers provided (given the kind of steep price for this book). I would say 30% were stickers and paste and the rest required you to cut out the pictures and have your child paste it using glue. My daughter still enjoyed doing this book (she finished it in 2 days!), but I wish the book had a lot more stickers. But, at least she got to practice using a glue stick! If you're OK with not getting a lot of stickers and have time to help cut pictures and don't mind the price, then this book will work for you! It does have a lot of super cute pictures!

My kids they lived this book, nice sticker easy to use

My daughter (almost 3) LOVED this workbook! By far her favorite so far, and perfect during this "shelter in place" situation for parents looking for ways to entertain and educate their toddlers indoors. My daughter loves crafts but also has a short attention span, but this kept her attention completely. She would've done the whole book in one sitting if I let her, but I spread it out into 3x 30-45 min sessions, which was easy because you can remove just a few activity pages to work on at a time. A 2-3 year old will definitely still need a parent to be actively participating with them, especially for the cut and paste pages obviously. We loved it so much I am going to reorder a few more copies, plus hunt down the other Kumon sticker and paste editions. Highly recommend and well worth the price!

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.

A mí hjo le gustí mucho estar pegando los stickers y recortando. Tiene muchas hojas, las pegatinas son de muy buena calidad.

I bought this book to entertain my 2.9 yo son while having a flight. So it worked! He loved to put stickers on a designated area (part of a fruit/vegetable). Also he loved to glue and afterwards put the pieces of the picture together (with my help). We finished the book in two weeks. I’m going to order similar ones as well.

les produits Kumon sont d'excellente qualité pédagogique et en plus amusnts pour les enfants. Ma file fait tous les découpages toute seule, même ceux demandés pour les parents, à 3 ans et demi, et elle aime les faire toutes seules. Elle adore les articles Kumon, en général. On ne peut pas se tromper avec Kumon.

ich habe einige Kumon Bücher gekauft um meine Kinder auf längeren Reisen und vor allem im Flugzeug zu beschäftigen. Das funktioniert super! Die Bücher sind unterhaltsam, aber die Kinder üben auch Fertigkeiten. Einige der Aufgaben funktionieren mit Stickern die dabei sind, für andere benötigt man Kleber und Schere.

Estos libros son muy útiles y divertidos para los niños cuando empiezan a comprender. Apreden de una forma muy divertida y no son aburridos.