Great for classrooms and free-time fun, these small but substantial challenges offer lighthearted, nonacademic approaches to a variety of math, logic, and verbal conundrums. Most can be completed in only a few minutes.
Invites youngsters to find ten or more differences between slightly changed versions of the same photograph of everyday activities, groups of objects, and other scenes.
Teeming with anacondas, jaguars, toucans, and tarantulas, this activity/coloring book takes kids on an Amazon adventure with lots of learning along the way. Color the realistic illustrations of plants and animals before or after seeking out the hidden pictures. Fact-filled captions offer fascinating details about rainforest ecology. Includes solutions.
There are lots and lots of dots in this activity book for coloring and puzzle enthusiasts. More than 40 connect-the-dots challenges depict animals, ice skaters, a windmill, and more.
Loaded with fun-filled facts and ready to color, this giant treasury of 46 hidden picture scenes features big and busy double-page spreads of a swimming pool, comic book store, miniature golf course, birthday party, and more.
Werewolves, vampires, ghosts, zombies, and other creatures of the night haunt this giant-sized collection of spinetingling activities. You can escape the clutches of vampires as you run through mazes, color scenes from the chilling Frankenstein story, shop for ghoulish goodies in a Monster Mall, and much more. Plus, there are even easy-to-follow recipes for fun and spooky foods.
Easy-to-follow guide, with step-by-step diagrams, shows youngsters how simple it is to create delightful likenesses of a bushy-tailed squirrel, a smiling chimpanzee, a prickly porcupine, and 27 other familiar creatures. Fun-filled book also teaches basics of developing shapes and proportions.
Discover the magic of animation with this complete guide to creating a device that offers the illusion of motion from a series of individual pictures. Includes well-illustrated instructions for assembling the viewer and making custom animation strips.
Sculpting sand is fun for kids of all ages — especially because the magical, mess-free material is easy to handle and can be used over and over again. This book features guidelines for using sculpting sand to create cute little creatures, including a crab, lizard, caterpillar, and monkey. Author Terry Taylor provides simple instructions and lots of colorful pictures for more than 18 projects, as well as plenty of helpful tips, including suggestions for tools and techniques. Projects with one star are the easiest and ideal for beginners. Two-star projects are a little more complex, and the ones with three stars are the most advanced. Kids can build their sculpting expertise with simpler figures such as the clown, octopus, and butterfly and then move on to the frog, dragon, and peacock. Meanwhile, they'll develop skills that will help them express their personal creativity.