The Preschooler's Busy Book contains 365 activities (one for each day of the year) for three- to six-year-olds using things found around the home. It shows parents, baby-sitters, and daycare providers how to: <ul>
<li>Save money by making your own paints, play dough, craft clays, glue, paste and other supplies</li>
<li>Prevent boredom during even the longest stretches of rainy or cold weather with ideas for indoor play like newspaper golf, magnet magic, the listening game, red light/green light, and hand puppets</li>
<li>Help children learn to have fun in the kitchen making fruit kebabs, popsicles, homemade peanut butter, a happy-face sandwich, alphabet cookies, animal pancakes, finger Jell-O, popcorn ball creatures, and the best chocolate chip cookies in the whole world</li>
<li>Teach your child practical skills like setting the table, putting away the silverware, sorting socks, sewing practice, and carpentry (hammering golf tees into Styrofoam, with a toy hammer)</li>
<li>Introduce your child to numbers and counting with activities like "One-Two, Buckle My Shoe," telling time, coin and stamp collecting, sorting a mixed-up deck of cards by numbers and learning how to find today's date on a calendar</li>
<li>Prepare your child for reading by working on an alphabet puzzle, making alphabet cookies, making an alphabet book, and connecting the dots in alphabetical order to make a picture</li>
<li>Get your child started with music and rhythm by making a pie-plate tambourine, keeping the rhythm to a song on the radio with homemade rhythm blocks or shakers, or make music with musical glasses (filled with different amounts of water)</li>
<li>Get your child moving with dances like "Hokey Pokey," "Skip to My Lou," "Ring Around the Rosie," and "London Bridge"</li>
<li>Encourage your child to enjoy quiet activities like reading wordless picture books, working on puzzles, and watching clouds--and then drawing them</li>
<li>Introduce children to nature with a variety of outdoor adventures from nature walks and picnics to backyard camping, bird feeding, mud painting and making waxed leaves</li>
<li>Start children growing things by planting apple seeds, avocado seeds or garlic cloves; or learning how to grow carrots, beets or sweet potatoes by putting cuttings into water</li>
<li>Celebrate holidays and other occasions with special projects and activities for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Easter and Passover</li>
<li>Keep children occupied on car trips by playing "I See A-B-C" or reciting "30 Days Hath September" </li>
</ul>

Preschooler's Busy Book: 365 Creative Games & Activities To Occupy 3-6 Year Olds (Busy Books Series)

Children's Books

Kuffner, Trish

Arts, Music & Photography

Meadowbrook Acquired

The Toddler’s Busy Book is a must-read for anyone raising or teaching toddlers! This book contains over 365 activities (one for each day of the year) for kids ages 18 months to 3 years, using items found around the home. It shows parents and day-care providers how to prevent boredom during the longest stretches of indoor weather, stimulate a child’s natural curiosity with entertaining math, language, and motor-skills activities, encourage a child’s physical, mental, and emotional growth, celebrate holidays and other occasions with special projects and activities, and keep toddlers occupied during long car trips or while running errands. The Toddler's Busy Book is written with warmth and sprinkled with humor and insight.

The Toddler's Busy Book: 365 Creative Games and Activities to Keep Your 1 1/2- to 3-Year-Old Busy

Activities, Crafts & Games

The Arts &amp; 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 &amp; 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. iParenting Media Awards 2003 Greatest Holiday Winner: Book An iParenting Media Award Winner!

Arts & Crafts Busy Book : 365 Activities

The Wiggle &amp; Giggle Busy Book contains 365 creative, lively games and activities to keep toddlers and preschoolers busy and active. It provides great alternatives to watching television, playing video games, or doing other sedentary activities. This book will get your young child up and moving for hours! The Wiggle &amp; Giggle Busy Book shows parents and daycare providers how to: instill a love of physical exercise through games and activities that encourage a child to move; focus a child’s energy constructively; encourage a child to strengthen large and small motor skills; connect music and rhyme with physical expression to develop a child’s creativity; and celebrate holidays and other special occasions with games and activities that get everyone moving. This book is written with warmth and sprinkled with humor and insight.

The Wiggle & Giggle Busy Book: 365 Fun, Physical Activities for Your Toddler and Preschooler

Meadowbrook

This book contains 365 activities (one for each day of the year) for six to ten year olds using things found around the home, it shows parents and day-care providers how to: Prevent boredom during even the longest stretches of rainy-day weather with ideas for indoor play, kitchen activities, and arts and crafts projects. Stimulate a child's natural curiosity with entertaining counting and language games and motor-skill activities. Encourage a child's physical, mental, and emotional growth with ideas for fun music, food, water and outdoor play. Keep toddlers occupied during long and short car trips.

Childrens Busy Book 365 Creative Games

SIMON & SCHUSTER @ TRADE

The Preschooler's Busy Book: 365 Creative Games and Activities to Occupy Your 3-To-6-Year-Old

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Meadowbrook Pr

Encourage Your Child to Love ReadingThis book helps preschoolers discover how much fun it is to read. Trish Kuffner shows parents how to make fifty favorite picture books come alive for children by providing a variety of activities that tie into the themes, characters, and plots of the books:
<ul>
<li>discussion topics</li>
<li>arts and crafts</li>
<li>rhymes and finger plays</li>
<li>fun and games</li>
<li>imaginative play ideas</li>
<li>recipes</li>
<li>music and movement</li>
<li>learning activities</li>
<li>outdoor adventures</li>
</ul>
This book will help you make reading with your child a favorite part of the day. You'll enjoy:
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street
Blueberries for Sale
Bread and Jam for Frances
Caps for Sale
A Chair for My Mother
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Corduroy
"Could Be Worse!"
Curious George
Fortunately
Frederick
Frog and Toad Together
George and Martha
Geraldine's Blanket
Gilberto and the Wind
The Happy Lion
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Harquin
Harry the Dirty Dog
A House for Hermit Crab
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Imogene's Antlers
Ira Sleeps Over
Just Plain Fancy
Little Bear
The Little Engine That Could
The Little House
Little Toot
Madeline
Millions of Cats
Mirette on the High Wire
Mittens
Noisy Nora
One Monday Morning
Owl Moon
Purple, Green and Yellow
The Rag Coat
The Runaway Bunny
The Snowman
The Snowy Day
The Story about Ping
The Story of Babar
The Story of Ferdinand
Sylvester and the Magi Pebble
There's an Alligator under My Bed
The Three Little Pigs
Tikki Tikki Tembo
Where the Wild Things Are
William's Doll

Picture Book Activities

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Da Capo Press

Keep your 6 to 10 year olds busy with this book. It contains over 365 activities using things found around the home thjat prevent boredom during bad weather and engage children in physical activity. The Children's Busy Book also has ideas for celebrating the holidays with special projects-such as how to make Spider Bread for Halloween.

The Children's Busy Book : 365 Creative Games and Activities to Keep Your 6- to 10-year Old Busy

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Containing 365 activities (one for every day of the year) for three- to six-year olds, this book shows parents and day-care providers how to save money by making craft materials; prevent boredom with ideas for indoor play; stimulate a child's natural curiosity, and encourage their growth all-round.

Provides activities to keep young children entertained while stimulating their natural curiosity and their physical, mental, and emotional growth

The Toddler's Busy Book

Oertel, Liya Lev

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Preschooler's Busy Book: 365 Creative Games & Activities To Occupy 3-6 Year Olds (Busy Books Series)

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