The book Naturally Fun Parties for kids is the most beautifully written book to help Moms and Dads create the most beautiful parties for their kids any time of the year with all four seasons being the focus. The beautiful photos the outstanding recipes the creative invitations the unique and very fun decorations and so much more ideas has inspired me to throw the best and very original party ever for my children, friends and family. I'm so excited to get started and also this book has inspired me to be creative with food, decorations and much much more and still keeping it green and natural and most inportant so fun for the kids. These parties will be something your children will always remember and pass these parties down to their children and when your children get involved in helping you getting ready for their party it will bring out their creative side. Love love love this beautiful book.

Its a nice book but maybe for the less creative..... I felt foolish after the purchase. There are some wonderful crafts, recipes and ideas but much more beginner than I guess I am. Also alot of advertising for stores and products within which I tend to not love in a DIY book.

This book is okay. In the end I didn't get many useful ideas. I appreciate the author's creativity. Maybe this is better for older kids? My kids are 4 and 6.

This book is superb: The ideas are great for every day, not just for parties, and they're affordable and lovely. I'm already diving in and making the Gratitude Banner with my kids!

These are great ideas, but a little bit too time-consuming for me to pull off.

I bought this book to help plan my daughters party! Great ideas for all types of kids parties!! Easy to follow recommendations!

This book is exactly as the title suggests: several different themes for parties for kids using natural elements for decorating, games and activities, etc. It is full of beautifully shot photographs, as well as unique and inspiring ideas for themes, games and crafts, decor, and so on. I'm very happy with this purchase.

I wish somebody had invited me to something like this when I was young enough to believe that a fairy dress can turn a lump of earth (like me) into something etherial.

"The parties are inspired by nature, are cost-effective, practice sustainable efforts such as recycling and upcycling, and are downright adorable [even if they do say so themselves ;0)]." The book is clearly structured: three party plans for each season. But the simplicity of that outline only scratches the surface here. For one thing, along the way Anni and Heather offer plenty of think-ahead tips about saving, wabi-sabiliy, materials that can become part of the imaginative fun of the party: dress-ups, craft projects, things that will be taken home by children who will never forget the delight of that afternoon's fun. And they drop in bits of old wisdom; I learned that you can dye things yellow with Turmeric spice (also known as Indian Saffron and very good, as well, for inflammation when taken internally - ummm - I just threw that bit in).

The book is beautifully laid out and peppered with photographs of actual children at actual parties. There are recipes--for all manner of festive treats; part of the fun is making the refreshments. And there's a bounty of detailed instructions for group craft projects--all season-specific and guaranteed to excite and engage.

But what I love most about this book is the pervasive spirit of gratitude and love. This is a value-based work, underlining the most essential of attitudes toward others, toward nature. The parties look amazing, but more significantly, they are also pitched to foster an awareness of the true wonders of our lives--delight in community, expressions of gratitude--that seasons turn, things can be gathered and realized, colors can be changed and children can make things that are real and tasty and beautiful.

Anni writes about living deliberately - not spinning along, just tumbling through time - but paying attention, making choices, cherishing every minute we have with one another, turning the flow of life itself into a blessed celebration in gratitude. The book is a delight.

It is a joy to share mental time with an author who has such a gift for understanding the essential nature and importance of family and childhood. Now, more than ever, we need to get back to these basics, understanding that the family is the root of all culture, all understanding of the world. So that whatever came before in our lives, the families we create now are strong, rich in culture and experience, emotionally functional, based in gratitude, love, and the realization that joy comes through simplicity and quiet awareness of the great blessings we have today been freely given - there for the taking. There, waiting for us to wake us and see them - and receive them.

My own small ones have flown the coup. But they keep coming back to said coup--with new small people in tow. I have always dreamed of being one of those sort of magical, comfortable grandmothers (against my nature, really) - and page by page, this work of Anni's inspires me to more than dreams. I want my children and their children to remember the mystery of creation, to dance in the forest, to hold a jewel of an egg in the palm of their hands before turning into a bit of cake, a work of art, a game. And now, in the midst of my regular crises of imagination, Anni's book is here to help me help them do just that.