All children enjoy having ownership in their work, and they especially like to complete projects which focus on themselves. Bookmaking can be a fun and easy way to help children at various ages and ability levels to communicate through writing.

Bookworm
This bookworm is designed to encourage the littlest reader in your house to keep on reading! After making this new reading buddy your child can tell stories with him. They can be as personalized as you like. Go wild with your and your child's imagination!

Potato Prints
This is a great way for you to use a simple potato to make a stamp for almost any holiday. All you need is a pencil to draw an outline of the shape you would like to print on the cut surface of the potato. Simple shapes work best and are great fun and inexpensive too!!

Valentine Bookmarks
I have discovered that my own children love to create and use their own markers. In fact, I believe that it inspires children to read. It personalizes the book. There is nothing better than a child reading on her own; choosing her own books and passionately exploring them.

Decorated Notebooks
Instead of paying extra for notebooks that have pictures and decorations on their covers, you and the kids can save money and decorate your own books ! You can buy the lower priced spiral books with the plain covers and make them beautiful ! This can be done with colored vinyl binders.

Texture Books
These books are super because your child can help you create them and will help tactile development. Scrap material can be used to make these books. use bright colors that your child enjoys. It is important to create a book that is both strong and attractive.

Meet the authors:
A Year of Scrapbooking
by Debbie Janasak, Anna Swinney
hosted by Sue Spataro
see the interview with authors Debbie & Anna
It has a huge variety of projects, with technical tips and new ideas mingled through it. The language and instructions are clear and the photographed examples are creative and inspiring, yet achievable for anybody. At the end, there is a very detailed resources list so you can easily locate any of the products they have used. Organized by the calendar year, this book contains hundreds of ideas and project themes for each month- from birthday and wedding albums to holiday and special event scrapbook pages.  Debbie and Anna include tips on improving the quality of photographs and creative ideas for cropping and layout.  The design and technique tips are in an easy-to-follow approach and all ideas  include step by step instructions and pictures. This is a wonderful book to turn your valuable photographs into treasured heirlooms!

Millenium Scrapbook
Welcome the millenium with a scrapbook! This is a child's year scrapbook. New Year's is a great time to start a scrapbook for the impending year.

Meet the Author - June Oberlander
"Slow and Steady, Get Me Ready"
The How to Book That Grows with Your Child
Cyber-interview hosted by Joe Spataro
with FREE excerpts
She is a retired Kindergarten teacher who taught kindergarten for 19 years in Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia. Her book gives a step-by-step approach on what you should do for your child during the first five years of life. Included in the interview are several excerpts reprinted from the book.

300 Three Minute Games:
Quick and Easy Activities of 2-5 Year Olds
by Jackie Silberg, Cheryl Kirk Noll

see an interview with Jackie Silberg hosted by Joe Spataro
300 Three Minute Games: Quick And Easy Activities For 2-5 Year Olds is a compendium of games children (and adults) will love to play while waiting in line at the market, stalled in traffic, between classes, on a field trip, at bedtime, or anytime a few quality minutes of fun and distraction are needed. 300 Three Minute Games is organized according to Animal Games, Stuck Inside Games, Stuffed Animal Games, Book Games, Exercise Games, Bath Games, Waiting Games, and Thinking Games. Child-engaging line drawings illustrate every page. No parent, teacher, or child-care center worker can afford to be without their own personal copy of 300 Three Minute Games!

Kick 'N' Crawl Playhouse

A Year of Scrapbooking
Idiots Guide to Scrapbooking
FREE Scrapbook Ideas

Craft Fun With Sondra
Look What You Can Make With Boxes
Interview with Sondra
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