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Hatching Easter Chick
  This
week's Craft of the Week features a fun and cute Easter craft - Hatching Easter
Chick. This is a very simple craft that all kids can do. The supplies are
readily available. The Hatching Easter Chick makes a great Easter decoration and a fine
addition to any Easter basket
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!
Shelly Eggs
 
This craft features a fun Easter craft for all kids in kindergarten and up. Shelly Eggs is
also an good opportunity for younger children to develop their fine motor skills and
become more facile with spatial relationships.
 Spring Sprouts
Spring, believe it or not, is coming! I
can hardly wait for the flowers to bloom and the temperature to inch up! Here are a few
spring craft ideas to that will get the Gloomiest Gus into the swing of spring!
also see:
 Meet
the Author
Jackie Silberg
"300 Three Minute Games
Interview & FREE excerpts
hosted by Joe Spataro
Jackie Silberg presents concerts, workshops and keynote address at early
childhood conferences all over the United States. She holds an M.S. degree in Early
Childhood Education from Emporia State University in Kansas where she is a Distinguished
Alumna. She is the early childhood leader of the Education Forum on Compuserve online
service. She is the author of numerous early childhood books. Find out more.
Meet the author & Craft Expert
Kathy
Ross
Kathy spent twenty years as a teacher and director of nursery school programs in
Oneida, New York which gave her extensive experience in guiding children through craft
projects. She is a collector of teddy bears and paper dolls. Many of her craft projects
have appeared in Highlights magazine. We are very pleased to have Kathy join us
in our series and share some her expertise and wit with us. Please stop by and see the
interview. |
 
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Roots, Shoots,
Buckets & Boots:
Gardening Together With Children
by Sharon Lovejoy
 
also see
Spring Ideas
This is a beautifully illustrated book that serves as an invitation to all adults
to celebrate the earth with a child, by taking the time to garden together and journey
together into your back yard, thereby establishing 'roots.'
Bird Center
 For all of you "bird brains" out there, we have bird
feeders or all kinds and pictures you can color and even more about birds
Familyfun's
Parties
(Familyfun Series , No 3)
by Deanna F. Cook
also see:
Craft-of-the-Week
Party Ideas
It provides GREAT ideas for every aspect of the party, all inexpensively, and
age-appropriate. It is a GREAT gift idea for moms with young children, but the ideas are
very applicable to adult parties too. I will definitely do lots of these parties when my
family gets together. Adults and children will enjoy these festive ideas. What a blast!
Drawing with Children:
A Creative Method for Adult Beginners, Too
by Mona Brookes
Founded on the belief that any child can learn to draw realistic pictures using
her "alphabet of shapes" while in a noncompetitive environment, Mona Brookes'
easy-to-follow, lesson-by-lesson approach to drawing has yielded astounding results with
children of all ages. This new edition includes two additional chapters explaining how to
reach children with learning problems or special needs and how to incorporate drawing into
other subjects, such as math and language. |
