How can a good sticker book save the day. This is a review of our favorite Usborne sticker books.
Lately my kids are into stickers and if you ask them what they like most they’s tell you that they want to play with a sticker book. We really like the Usborne books and most of the sticker books our kids love are also from Usborne, so I thought to tell you why we think these books are so awesome and why my kids love them so much.
On one of our recent plane trips we got blown away by the effect of a simple doll sticker book had on our kids and how it kept them busy for most of the trip.
We travel frequently and kids on the plane are always a bit of stress. So for our last 4h plane trip with 3 kids we were hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst. Among the toys we took with us were the two sticker books below and to our surprise, they kept the kids entertained for most of the way.
As a result, we obviously fell in love with these 2 sticker books 🙂
The only interaction we had to provide while Victoria played with her sticker book was some advice from time to time on where the stickers should be placed. Thanks to the activities in this sticker book, we enjoyed seeing the kids play independently during most of the flight!
The idea of these sticker books (film stars 
for the boys :-)) is quite simple: there are 3 girls that need to be dressed for different occasions with different (many!) outfits/stickers. Each sticker book has 23 pages with different scenarios and each of these pages gave a correspondent page full with stickers.
Because the stickers a very colorful Victoria really enjoys to play with this sticker book. On top they can be used again and again, but if you do this too many times they will slowly loose the stickiness. We also noticed that if the hands are dirty or greasy obviously the stickers won’t stick so good -however Victoria doesn’t seem to mind.
And these sticker books have A LOT of stickers! It actually requires a small mind shift for adults. At first you think there are too many stickers for the scenes in the sticker book. That’s until you accept that you need to stick the stickers the same way you get dressed … one on top of the other! You might first put on a blouse, to then add a pullover or jacket on top.
To make it a little more interesting, I separate the pages with the stickers from the rest of the sticker book to make it easier to play with. This is quite easy to do and then Victoria chooses a scene from the sticker book she wants to play with. Then she looks for the corresponding page in the sticker book, trying to match the titles on each page and practicing some letter recognition.
Of course when we have friends visiting, they also get to have fun with the stickers 🙂
With our kids, another mind shift was to let go of our adult perfectionism. Because of the shape and dimensions of the stickers in this sticker book, Victoria (4,5), doesn’t always manage to put the clothes perfectly on the girls – but she is not bothered at all about this. In her eyes everything is perfect.
Anyhow, the fun is guaranteed regardless of age. Lukas (2,5) joins often the “sticker party” to comment on the fashionable items the girls are wearing or to play with his own sticker books featuring diggers
Do you have any favorite sticker book your kid is playing with? I’d love to hear about it.
