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Crafts that convert a story into a hands-on experience are a wonderful way to involve young readers and listeners. Making a Pinocchio whose nose actually grows, staging a race between the tortoise and the hare, or sending Peter Pan flying through the air will definitely enhance the fun of story hour! These easy-to-make crafts focus on twenty different children's stories, although many can be adapted to other tales as well.
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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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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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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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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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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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Do you love to cook? Craft expert Kathy Ross serves up 25 crafts for chefs of all ages. Turn a man's shirt into a cute Kitchen Cover-up. Make a Recipe Box with decorated Recipe Cards. Or beautify your kitchen with Pretty Paper Napkins and a Napkin Basket. Using low-cost or no-cost materials, these crafts are perfect to make for yourself-or to give as gifts!
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These shape-based crafts will help children remember the names of shapes by associating them with common objects. And, while they're learning their shapes, youngsters will have a lot of fun producing creative art projects. In this book designed to supplement the teaching of basic shapes, Kathy Ross draws on her thirty years experience as a preschool teacher and curriculum developer. She has designed twenty easy-to-make crafts, each one based on one...
10) Beautiful Beads
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For every girl who loves beads, Beautiful Beads provides hours of creative fun! Craft expert Kathy Ross shows you how to create pretty Beaded Envelopes, a fun Beaded Doll, a clever Beads Skill Game, and more! You can even use ribbons, threads, and other low-cost or no-cost craft materials to design beads of your own. With these 21 bead crafts, you can accessorize, decorate, and play - all with beads!
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Twenty-nine easy-to-make craft projects are based on the Genesis 1 recounting of God's creation of the world and its inhabitants. Designed to encourage the youngest Christian crafters to reflect on the wonders of creation, the book ends with projects that will remind them about God's great love for the world He has created.
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Accessorize your life with easy-to-make necklaces, bracelets, headbands, purses, and much more! This book is bursting with 21 fun accessories. Using low-cost or no-cost materials, you can customize these accessories to match your own personal style. From the Flower Cuff Bracelet to the Superspecial Sunglasses, these crafts are perfect for making alone or with friends.
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Playing with a doll is all about imagination. Here are twenty creative craft projects to make play situations a lot more fun! They range from a doll bathing suit and beach bag made from a sock to a doll Halloween costume made from a stuffed animal. There are scrapbooks, a bulletin board, jewelry, hair ornaments, and more for kids to make for their dolls. And, as is always the case with a Kathy Ross craft idea, everything can be done at little or no...
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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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Following the format of the successful Learning is Fun series, the Learning About series moves slightly upward in age range, from preschool and kindergarten concepts to curriculum topics covered in kindergarten through grade 1. There are easy-to-make crafts for every kind of weather. Among the projects are What kind of weather? Wheel", Mr. Thermometer", Flash of Lightning Puppet", Icy Snowman Mobile", and a Dress for the Weather doll". Each craft...
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Do you love using stamps to create crafts? Discover ways to design your own personalized stamps in One-of-a-Kind Stamps and Crafts! Craft expert Kathy Ross shows you how to make stamps from ordinary materials such as pony beads, buttons, pipe cleaners, and rubber bands. In addition, she provides many ideas for what to make with your stamps, as well as instructions for a Stamp Storage Box and an Ink Pad Storage Shelf. Get ready to have fun with stamps!...
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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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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...