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What kind of birthday party would you like to have? Have you always wanted to be an astronaut? Do you love rainbows? Do you find a roomful of monsters appealing? Or perhaps you're a budding artist? No matter what your interests, you can put together a party that is truly yours. All that's required are some scissors and paste and a few easy-to-find household materials. THE BEST BIRTHDAY PARTIES EVER! has everything you need to know to plan and create...
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Hands-on craft projects can make learning phonics lots of fun as well as help children remember what sound goes with what letter. In this book designed to supplement the teaching of letter sounds, Kathy Ross draws on her thirty years experience as a preschool teacher and curriculum developer. She has designed an easy-to-make craft based on the sound of each letter from the alphabet, from Activity on an Anthill to a Zipper-Bag Zoo Book.
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Colors offers at least one wonderfully clever craft for every color in the rainbow, as well as for black, white, brown, pink, and gray. Crafts include a Yellow Caterpillar Cuff Pin, a Green Frog Zipper Pull, and All Colors Alien Pencil Tops. A great tool for parents and teachers for helping kids learn their basic colors.
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Hands-on craft projects can make remembering the shape of each letter lots of fun and also help children associate a sound with each letter. In this book designed to supplement the teaching of writing the basic letter shapes, Kathy Ross draws on her thirty years experience as a preschool teacher and curriculum developer. She has designed an easy-to-make craft based on the shape of each letter of the alphabet, from an airplane made by folding the capital...
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If your kids are fascinated by dinosaurs, this is the book for them! It contains twenty projects related to dinosaurs and other animals from prehistoric times. Make a Pasta Fossil Plaque, or try the Triceratops Ring-Toss Game. And doesn't everyone want a Pterosaur Hat? Young dinosaur-lovers will have hours of creative fun using the ideas in this book.
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These number-based crafts are designed to help children remember the shape and the concept of numbers one through ten. Beginning with a One and Only Me craft and ending with a Ten in an Envelope Bed, each number has its own special project. Then there are a series of projects that show the many ways in which numbers are used, such as a Play Cell Phone, a Play Alarm Clock, Coin Family Puppets, and Mama Foot-Long Worm and Her Twelve Baby Inchworms....
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Rainforests are filled with fascinating creatures and plants. These interesting craft projects will have kids modeling many of them! Kids can make a Hercules Beetle Hat, Window Toucan, Emerald Tree Boa, and even a Howling Howler Monkey Mask! Simple instructions make the crafts easy to perform.
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Getting together with your girlfriends has never been more fun! Now you can create dozens of attractive crafts using simple, easy-to-find household materials. Filled to the brim with detailed instructions, Kathy Ross's latest craft book will have friends sharing ideas for new and exciting projects. Learn to add your own fashionable touches to clothing, such as the Trendy T-shirt and Fancy Flip Flops, or create new decor for your bedroom with the Room...
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Beginning chronologically with Benjamin Banneker and ending with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this collection has 20 crafts, each on based on the work of a distinguished black American. The projects include a Frederick Douglass Puppet, a Harriet Tubman Route to Freedom Maze, a Granville T. Woods Invention Puzzle, a Thank You George Washington Carver Magnet, and Mary McCloud Bethune's School That Grew. Each craft is illustrated and outlined with step-by-step...
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Whether kids are just learning about outer space or have been dazzled by the mysteries of space for a long time, they will have fun making the simple crafts in this book. The twenty easy craft projects include items suchh as a Straw Rocket, Flip-the-Rings-on-Saturn Game, Starry-Sky Light Catcher, and a Magnetic Space Walk. Kids' imaginations will soar into space with these creative do-it-yourself projects.
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Hands-on learning fun aimed straight at the first-grade curriculum. Twenty-two crafts introduce transportation modes ranging from a baby carriage to a rocket ship. Among the projects are a Race Car Photo Holder, a Human Bulldozer, a Tissue Box Bus, and a Bead Train Necklace. They are perfect for group classroom projects or just having fun at home.
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A community is a lot of people working together to help each other. In school you are learning about all of the things that community workers do to help you. The projects in this book are all about these workers. They include an Apple for the Teacher Pencil Topper, a Mail Carrier Dispenser for Stamps, a Sock-It Away Bank, a Jackhammer Puppet, a Squirting Hose Puppet, and even a pair of play Handcuffs! So get out your scissors and paste and a few household...
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Best-selling children's craft expert Kathy Ross offers a collection of 65 holiday-based craft projects, each one guaranteed to turn out beautifully. Patterned after Millbrook's original BEST HOLIDAY CRAFTS EVER bindup, this volume contains 100% new material. In addition to Valentine's Day, Earth Day, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanza, and Christmas, a number of new holidays have been added, including Flag Day, Memorial Day, 4th of...
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Symbols of the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa-including harvest fruits and vegetables, the Kwanzaa cup and candles, and the mkeka mat-are the basis of many of the twenty projects in this unique book. Guided by colorful illustrations and using materials that are readily available, even young children will be able to make these easy crafts for a Kwanzaa celebration that is truly special.
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In typical Kathy Ross style, simple but clever projects bring cows and pigs and chickens and horses and goats and even the farmer himself to life. Young ones will get great satisfaction from being able to transform ordinary household items such as yogurt cups, paper towel tubes, or pipe cleaners into animal-based projects such as a Turkey Corsage, a Goosey Gander Pin, a Thimble Field Mouse, a Horse Magnet, or a Cow Tissue Dispenser. E-i-e-i-o!
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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.
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Add your own creative sparkle to the holiday season with these 30 different, delightful, decorative creations. Liven up your holiday dinner table with Christmas Napkins, Jingle Bell Napkin Rings, and a Cone Table Santa centerpiece. Try a Doorknob-Nose Elf or a giant Tube Reindeer on your door. Among the great gift ideas are two Christmas picture frame projects (perfect for your grandparents), a Christmas Stocking Pencil Holder (for your teacher),...