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An amazing collection of art activities, some familiar, many new, all sure to guarantee complete satisfaction both to teacher and child. Each experience can be set up in an independent art center and enjoyed and explored without adult models to copy. The end result is bounded only by the imagination of the child. - Review © Amazon.com |
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Anyone working with preschoolers and early primary age children will want this book. Over 200 activities teach children to explore and understand their world through open-ended art experiences that emphasize the process of art, not the product. - Review © Amazon.com |
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More than 150 craft and art activities for creative self-expression of youngsters, with easy-to-follow instructions. |
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Each page of this exploration of science through art features a recipe-style science activity, complete with simple instructions and illustrations, that teaches young readers a scientific concept. All ages. - Review © Ingram & Amazon.com |
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PreSchool-Grade 4-Arranged by type of material, this guide gives many craft ideas for using such household items as aluminum foil, plastic berry baskets, beans, buttons, catalogs and magazines, clothespins, cookie cutters, and milk cartons. Several projects are also suggested for less commonly found materials, such as beads, beeswax, jingle bells... ~ © 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. |
| Exploring Arts & Crafts With 2 To 6 Year Olds |
Over 70 art projects with introductory poems to stir kids' imaginations explore textures, colors, shapes, moods, and feelings. Introductions to basic media include glue, doughs, paint, paper, markers, and crayons. Unusual crafts feature a paper bag picnic basket, muffin cup birds, milk carton caboose, dough porcupine, popsicle stick flower gardens, and a clothespin splatter paint butterfly. Guidelines for parents, teachers, and caregivers for encouraging truly creative art experiences are of especial value. - Review © Midwest Book Review |
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This fabulous oversized guidebook contains 200 activities to help preschoolers explore math through art. As children learn sorting, matching, one-to-one correspondence, and patterning, they're developing essential math concepts. Add counting, measuring and number values, and preschool math is learned with fun! All supplies and materials are listed at the beginning of the project page, as are suggested ages, amount of preparation time, whether or not help may be required, and caution indicators. Explanations of which skills are reinforced with the projects validate once again, "Art is fundamental!" - Review © Editor of All Together Now! |
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Create party favors such as Witchy Pens, Floating Ghost Candy Cups, and Something Weird in a Jar. Add to the mixture a few scary puppets, a Frankenstein Treasure Keeper, and a Haunted Photograph and you have everything you need for a great Halloween! The crafts are made from household and craft items. The crafts can make very satisfying parent/child projects, while older children can do them on their own. |
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Host a magical Halloween with this collection of frightfully fun crafts! Most of these projects can be completed in an afternoon, from shimmering beaded spiderwebs to party crackers that open with a loud "pop!" to reveal a gush of goodies... |
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Here are some pretty innovative approaches to such timeworn Halloween delights as pumpkin carving, table decorating, and party giving. Rather than limit carving to traditional orange pumpkins, they offer devilish red imps made of bumpy gourds and green glow-stick eyes, or a jaunty goblin king carved of green hubbard squash. A decrepit old butler figure presides over... |