Halloween Machine FALL 2017 ISSUE Interview With Mick Garris, Hocus Pocus writer! Tributes to Tobe Hooper and Basil Gogos Halloween Store Sightings with Miley David Rupp of 9th Circle Designs Halloween Fiction by Charles Primm and Kurtis Primm Kreatures of the Night Halloween Inspired Art and More! Variant Cover!
Decorating your home for each season doesn't have to be stressful, overwhelming, or expensive--just ask The Nester! In Welcome Home, New York Times bestselling author Myquillyn Smith guides you through a minimalist process of creating and enjoying a seasonally decorated home with more style and less stuff. No matter what the world says, embracing the seasons doesn't require endless bins of factory-made decor or loads of time. In fact, your home can be festive, stylish, and cozy with minimal effort and a limited budget. With engaging how-tos and inspiring photos, Welcome Home will help you create a home that's fresh, meaningful, beautiful, and (bonus!) always ready for guests. Myquillyn guides you step by step through purposeful design decisions to cultivate a space where loved ones gather, meaningful connections are celebrated, and lasting memories are made. Myquillyn's realistic and down-to-earth design tips will teach you how to: Seasonalize your living spaces with simple, actionable steps Pay attention to the rhythm of your life in order to cultivate spaces that work for you and your family Incorporate the beauty of the natural world by paying attention to the five senses Feel confident in volunteering your house for gatherings, parties, and impromptu get-togethers Know what to focus on and what not to worry about as a relaxed and confident hostess Truly enjoy your home Welcome Home will help you rise above the trends, discover your unique style, and usher in each season with more style and even less stuff.
Hundreds of proven hands-on activities, carefully outlined and using inexpensive materials, emphasize learning by doing, encourage creativity, and afford opportunities to develop responsibility. Organized into 19 thematic units (from "Marvelous Me" to "Summertime and the Sun") and correlated to the school-year calendar, the activities cover key curriculum areas such as language arts, math, and science; they also involve art, music, cooking, movement, block play, and role plays. Jargon-free and clearly written, the book is also a great resource for parents. Grades preK-K. 302 pages. Good Year Books. Second Edition.
It's fall! Farmstands are bursting with just-picked produce to share with family & friends. Celebrate this glorious season with back-to-school lunches, chilly-day soup suppers, tailgating parties, trick-or-treat goodies and Thanksgiving turkey with all the trimmings. In Fall Cooking for Family & Friends, you'll find delicious recipes for every occasion, shared by home cooks from across the country. Breakfast Egg Muffins or Fruit & Nut Granola Bars will send the kids off to school, ready to learn. Bacon Breakfast Casserole is perfect for a tailgating brunch with friends. Chicken Corn Chowder, White Bean & Kale Soup and All-Day Beef Barley Soup are equally good at lunch or supper...just add a basket of Easy Corn Sticks. If you're whipping up a quick busy-day dinner, you'll find lots of satisfying choices like Shortcut Lasagna, BBQ Chicken Flatbread, Delicious Cola Roast and Meatless Taco Bowls. Hosting an oh-so special dinner for Thanksgiving? You can't go wrong with Best Thanksgiving Turkey, Karen's Corn Pudding, Honey-Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Glazed Fruit Salad. Fall is party time, so you'll find plenty of choices like Autumn Caramel Apple Dip, Freeze-Ahead Crab Appetizers, Fiesta Pinwheels and Aunt Jo's Red Hot Punch. Check out the wonderful desserts too...Pumpkin-Oat Scotchies, Toffee Brickle Popcorn, Vermont Maple Cake and Christy's Chocolate Trifle. Yum! Each recipe uses familiar ingredients, with easy directions. You'll find plenty of hints and tips for celebrating the season, too. 225 Recipes.
Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.
Do you want to encourage your students to follow directions, enhance their creativity and increase their motivation in a fun-filled, productive way? If you do, then this is the packet for you! These step-by-step activities also expand reading and vocabulary skills if you have students read them, and they develop listening skills when you read them aloud to your class. Students will learn how to follow directions for coloring, changing words into other words, drawing pictures, folding paper and more. Each activity includes easy-to-understand directions, and requires a minimum of preparation time by the teacher. Your class will enjoy the mystery of following step-by-step directions without knowing the results until they're actually done!
Ryan and his mom have moved to a new town, and Ryan is entering middle school. Adjusting to middle school life is like trying to adjust to a parallel dimension for him. He sees the school athletes getting noticed and he wants to be noticed too. Meanwhile, his mom is recuperating from divorcing his dad. She begins to take a romantic interest in Randy. Ryan doesn't like the idea of another man pursuing his mom. Initially, he wants nothing to do with Randy and wishes he would leave his mom alone. As time goes on, Ryan begins to realize that Randy may be the only one who can help him climb out of obscurity at his new school. A relationship that starts out with Randy acting as Ryan's football coach gradually transforms into a relationship with Randy acting more like a father. Ryan and Randy learn together that learning to love new people can be scary. A bond that starts out as not much more than a mutual love of football becomes a bond filled with love and compassion. Ryan gradually begins to feel grateful to have a new dad who actually cares about him and his mom.
Do you enter every holiday wanting it to be meaningful, only to find that it feels chaotic with no direction? We set New Year’s goals we can’t keep, struggle to love or be loved on Valentine’s Day, and find it hard to celebrate the risen Jesus when we are searching for the perfect Easter dress. Our summer and back-to-school seasons are whirlwinds, even as adults; we aren’t quite sure what to do with Halloween as Christians; and we feel less than grateful at Thanksgiving because it is sometimes full of complicated people. Even Christmas becomes a challenge, as celebrating Jesus gets lost behind twinkling lights and a mountain of gifts. Holidays are meant to be more than chaos with glimpses of grace; they are meant to draw us closer to God and one another. We want all the whimsy and joy the holidays held when we were children, before life crowded it out. We want the holidays to reflect our love for Jesus and reveal the grace that has been lavished on us, but life is so busy that setting a game plan just doesn’t happen. No more. It’s time to stop trying to survive the holidays or over indulge the whimsy, and instead live in the abundant life God called us to live. Sacred Holidays is part book and part resource: meant to help you avoid what has tripped you up in the past and give you insights, tips, and tools to make your holidays less chaotic and more about loving Jesus and others. Don’t let your holidays be marked by regret, whirlwinds, or survival mindset. Let’s celebrate every holiday together purposefully and worshipfully–loving Jesus and others well in every moment.