The Arts & Crafts Busy Book

The Arts & Crafts Busy Book

Author: Trish Kuffner

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2010-06-01

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 1442411236

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The Arts & Crafts Busy Book should be required reading for anyone raising or teaching children. It is written with warmth and sprinkled with humor and insight. The Arts & Crafts Busy Book contains 365 screen-free, fun, creative and educational arts and crafts projects for children ages two to six that provide a great alternative to using TV as a babysitter. It shows parents and daycare providers how to: Stimulate creativity and self-expression with activities that encourage a child to explore his or her place in the world. Create experiments with paint, glue, playdough, paper, and markers that focus a child's energy constructively. Encourage the development of a child's concentration and coordination, as well as organizational and manipulative skills, with well-chosen arts and crafts projects. Save money by making arts and crafts supplies such as paints, playdough, and craft clay with ingredients that can be found around the home. Celebrate the holidays and other occasions with special projects and activities.


The Toddler's Busy Book

The Toddler's Busy Book

Author: Trish Kuffner

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2009-12-15

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1442404868

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Fun and creative activities to stimulate your toddler every day of the year The Toddler's Busy Book contains 365 screen-free activities for one-and-a-half- to three-year-olds using things found around the home. It shows parents and daycare providers how to: Prevent boredom during the longest stretches of rainy days with ideas for indoor play, kitchen activities, and arts and crafts projects. Stimulate your child's natural curiosity with entertaining math, language, and motor-skills activities. Encourage your child's physical, mental, and emotional growth with fun music, food, water, and outdoor activities. Celebrate holidays and other occasions with special projects and activities. Keep toddlers occupied during long car trips or crosstown errands. The Toddler's Busy Book is written with warmth and sprinkled with humor and insight. It should be required reading for anyone raising or teaching toddlers.


The Complete Book of Arts & Crafts

The Complete Book of Arts & Crafts

Author: Dawn Purney

Publisher: American Education Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781561895861

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The Complete Book of Arts and Crafts provides 256 pages of fun activities for children ages 5 to 9 that reinforce creative minds and motor skills! It includes paper, painting, musical, sculpting, and holiday crafts, as well as a complete answer key, user-friendly activities, and easy-to-follow instructions. Over 4 million in print! Designed by leading experts, books in the Complete Book series help children in grades preschool-6 build a solid foundation in key subject areas for learning success. Complete Books are the most thorough and comprehensive learning guides available, offering high-interest lessons to encourage learning and full-color illustrations to spark interest. Each book also features challenging concepts and activities to motivate independent study, and a complete answer key to measure performance and guide instruction.


A Happy Book of Little Gifts to Make

A Happy Book of Little Gifts to Make

Author: Sarah Hand

Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing

Published: 2022-05-10

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0760374635

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Keep your hands busy and your mind playing and free of stress with A Happy Book of Little Gifts to Make. From professional artist Sarah Hand, the author of Art Makers: Papier-Mache, this book features easy-to-follow step-by-step projects, creative inspiration, and prompts—all designed to be done at home using affordable, accessible materials. Best of all, the projects are small-scale, so they are portable, giftable, adorable, and fun! A Happy Book of Little Gifts to Make includes varied projects done in all kinds of materials, from papier-mache and paper to crayons, paint, and paint pens. With this book, you can learn to make: Dioramas Papier-mache creatures Pop-up cards Cotton dolls And much more Throughout the book, find tips for having fun and relaxing as you create, plus creative inspiration and prompts so that you can use this book as a starting point for art projects you devise on your own. After a stressful year (or decade?), everyone needs to have fun and let loose, and what better way than with art that can be created at home and with materials you already have? The small size of the projects makes them manageable even for beginning crafters and artists, and kids will love working on the projects too (possibly with a little adult help). The art is adorable and whimsical and appeals to artists of all ages and skill levels, including beginning crafters, DIYers, crafty families, and more. Grab your paper, paints, and more and then set up at the kitchen counter to start your stress-free creative life with A Happy Book of Little Gifts to Make from a professional artist and instructor.


TheDadLab

TheDadLab

Author: Sergei Urban

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-05-14

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0525542701

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The ultimate collection of DIY activities to do with your kids to teach STEM basics and beyond, from a wildly popular online dad. With more than 3 million fans, TheDadLab has become an online sensation, with weekly videos of fun and easy science experiments that parents can do with their kids. These simple projects use materials found around the house, making it easier than ever for busy moms and dads to not only spend more quality time with their children but also get them interested in science and technology. In this mind-blowing book, Sergei Urban takes the challenge off-screen with fifty step-by-step projects, including some that he has never shared online before. Each activity will go beyond the videos, featuring detailed explanations to simplify scientific concepts for parents and help answer the hows and whys of their curious children. Learn how to: explore new fun ways to paint; make slime with only two ingredients; defy gravity with a ping-pong ball; produce your own electricity, and more! With TheDadLab, parents everywhere will have an easy solution to the dreaded "I'm bored" complaint right at their fingertips!


Kids Create

Kids Create

Author: Laurie Carlson

Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Published: 2021-03

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781423657378

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Kids Create features more than 150 engaging and thought-provoking art projects and crafts for kids, ages three to nine. Arranged by season, and ranging from beginner to advanced, these projects are great for homeschooling, school projects, and weekends.


Big Bird's Busy Book

Big Bird's Busy Book

Author: Michael K. Frith

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780394829043

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Big Bird and his Muppet friends introduce a collection of stories, poems, puzzles, recipes, crafts, and games.


Just Go to Bed (Little Critter)

Just Go to Bed (Little Critter)

Author: Mercer Mayer

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2021-02-02

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 0593376234

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It's time to sleep with this hilarious and adorable bedtime story featuring Little Critter! Perfect for parents to read aloud with their toddlers. Little Critter is not looking forward to bedtime. Whether it’s time for him to stop playing and take a bath, or making a fuss about getting into his jammies, both parents and children alike will relate to this beloved story. A great way to introduce children to their very own bedtime routine!


The Little Hands Art Book

The Little Hands Art Book

Author: Judy Press

Publisher: WorthyKids

Published: 2000-01-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780824968199

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"The perfect introductory art book for little hands with lots to express! Instructions are kept to a minimum, and resulting art is very clever as kids' imaginations take flight with simple materials."--Back cover