Crafts from Your Favorite Children's Stories
Crafts from Your Favorite Children's Stories

Author: Kathy Ross

Publisher: Millbrook Press

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 0761368442

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Crafts that convert a story into a hands-on experience are a wonderful way to involve young readers and listeners. Making a Pinocchio whose nose actually grows, staging a race between the tortoise and the hare, or sending Peter Pan flying through the air will definitely enhance the fun of story hour! These easy-to-make crafts focus on twenty different children’s stories, although many can be adapted to other tales as well.

Crafts from Your Favorite Nursery Rhymes
Crafts from Your Favorite Nursery Rhymes

Author: Kathy Ross

Publisher: Millbrook Press

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 0761368450

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Children never tire of hearing their favorite nursery rhymes, even though they have learned them by heart. This collection of crafts is a way to enhance the comforting familiarity of the old verses. Youngsters can make a little piggy that actually squeals (all the way home!), a Boy Blue that really blows a horn, or even a dish that runs away with a spoon. Some of the crafts are toys, while others such as the Old Woman’s Shoe Magnet or the Crying Kitten Soap Dispenser have practical use. These easy-to-make crafts feature step-by-step illustrated instructions and require only common household materials or simple craft items.

Crafts from Your Favorite Children's Songs
Crafts from Your Favorite Children's Songs

Author: Kathy Ross

Publisher: Millbrook Press

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 0761368434

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Clap your hands, stamp your feet, and get out your scissors and paste! Your favorite children’s songs are about to be more fun than ever. Here are step-by-step instructions for song-related puppets, toys, jewelry, games, and other projects. You can make a CHANGING FACE PUPPET to go with a chorus of If You’re Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands. Maybe you’d like to wear a BAA, BAA, BLACK SHEEP LAPEL PIN—or perhaps a TISKET A TASKET GREEN AND YELLOW BASKET NECKLACE. For some action, make the EEENSY, WEENSY SPIDER wash down the drain or help the PEOPLE ON THE BUS GO UP AND DOWN. Or, if you like to laugh, try the OLD MAN IS SNORING PUPPET. He is designed to make some very interesting noises! Whichever of the twenty adorable projects you choose, you’re sure to have a rollicking good time!

Crafts From Your Favorite Bible Stories
Crafts From Your Favorite Bible Stories

Author: Kathy Ross

Publisher: Millbrook Press

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 0761368310

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Kathy Ross delivers easy directions for twenty-seven Bible story crafts that kids can make using everyday materials. Clearly illustrated, step-by-step instructions result in great projects for beginners. Some of the crafts include a Moses in the Bulrushes Glove Puppet, Three Kings Hats, and a Hand Lamb.

Crafts from Your Favorite Fairy Tales
Crafts from Your Favorite Fairy Tales

Author: Kathy Ross

Publisher: Millbrook Press

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 0761391010

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The make-believe world of fairy tales comes to life with just some scissors and paste and a few household items. For a dramatic accompaniment to the retelling of your favorite tale, make the ugly duckling that changes into a swan, the Beast that turns back into a Prince, or even the Sleeping Beauty puppet that opens her eyes for the first time in a hundred years. You can make up a charming bed for the seven dwarfs from an egg carton or a beautiful gingerbread house from an ordinary lunchbag. You can do a model of Rapunzel letting down her hair or of Jack climbing up the beanstalk. Illustrated step-by-step instructions will provide hours and hours of rewarding creative activity.

Crafts to Celebrate God's Creation
Crafts to Celebrate God's Creation

Author: Kathy Ross

Publisher: Millbrook Press

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 0761368302

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Twenty-nine easy-to-make craft projects are based on the Genesis 1 recounting of God’s creation of the world and its inhabitants. Designed to encourage the youngest Christian crafters to reflect on the wonders of creation, the book ends with projects that will remind them about God’s great love for the world He has created.

How to Get Your Child to Love Reading
How to Get Your Child to Love Reading

Author: Esmé Raji Codell

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9781565123083

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Offers advice and guidelines on how to expand a child's world through books and reading, introducing three thousand teacher-recommended book titles, craft ideas, projects, recipes, and reading club tips.

The Storytime Craft Book
The Storytime Craft Book

Author: Kathy Ross

Publisher: Millbrook Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780761318439

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A beautifully illustrated collection of very simple but clever hands-on projects includes step-by-step instructions for games, puppets, jewelry, toys, and more relating to eighty of the most popular children's songs, fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and stories.

All New Crafts for Halloween
All New Crafts for Halloween

Author: Kathy Ross

Publisher: Millbrook Press

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 0761368256

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Kathy Ross has created an amazing new collection of crafts ranging from Skeleton Scatter Pins to an Owl Goodie Bag that glows in the dark. For those who like to wear their crafts, the Ghost Zipper Pull or the Batty Ear Dangles will draw lots of attention. For the more sedate, the Frankenstein Treasure Keeper is guaranteed to scare off all intruders. Whether kids want to make Masks For Dolls or frighten their friends with Something Wierd In A Jar, this is the book for them!

All New Crafts for Easter
All New Crafts for Easter

Author: Kathy Ross

Publisher: Millbrook Press

Published: 2011-08-01

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 0761368264

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Kathy Ross, America's crafts-for-kids expert, shares some very original hands-on ideas for celebrating Easter. There are two terrific Easter Basket projects, one made from a tissue box and the other from coffee filters. An easy-to-make but dramatic project is the Easter Corsage, a perfect Easter gift. In the Easter decorations category there is the Basket of Flowers Door Wreath, and a great idea for a bouquet made of Eggshell Flowers. And, for your Easter table, the Bunny and Basket Place Cards are adorable. Each of the crafts is made from things found around the house and simple, inexpensive craft items. The crafts can make very satisfying parent/child projects for the younger ones, while older children can do them on their own.