Dogs to Stroke | Arts & Crafts Set

A rainy afternoon or a first proper craft set for a child of 3 years+ calls for something they can finish on their own, and Dogs to Stroke from Djeco's Little Ones series answers that need well. In the box are 3 thick card illustrated designs, 345 coloured pompoms and a step by step instructions booklet. The cardboard is FSC Mix certified.

A child follows the instructions booklet and presses the coloured pompoms onto the sticky parts of each design. They work their way across the card, pompom by pompom, until a fluffy dog takes shape under their fingers. There is no glue and no mess, just the pompoms themselves and the sticky card doing the work. With 3 designs to complete, a child can return to the set more than once and finish a different dog each time, picking out colours as they go and building up the picture piece by piece.

The designs are illustrated by Ellen Giggenbach, so each finished dog has its own character once the last pompom is pressed into place.