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52 outdoor activities one for every week of the year! Being outside is fun when you've got lots to explore, discover, track, and create! This book is filled with educational activities that kids will love, like harvesting algae, pressing flowers, and watching spiders spin their webs. Written by a famous forester who founded a nature academy for kids, these activities are creatie, unique, wildly entertaining, and can be completed rain or shine all...

What is more memorable than a child first learning to tie his shoes? Or wrapping his first Christmas presents? Knots aren't easy to learn, but they are very helpful-whether you are five years old, ten years old, or even fifty years old. Here is a children's picture book that will help parent and child learn together by simplifying the craft and bringing the reader into the world of knots through beautiful, detailed illustrations. My First Book of...

Join the busy bears for drawing lessons, science experiments, and other activities! The fun-loving Berenstain Bears are back, this time in a compilation of four classic activity books. Each book features a story accompanied by simple illustrated directions for the projects. Draw-It! Go to art class with Brother and Sister Bear to learn about self-portraits and landscape drawing. Discover how to see objects as cubes, spheres, and other shapes and

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No child can walk through a puddle of mud without a gigantic smile, and while the stuff might be the spring-time bane of grownups, children just love mud. Muddy Boots targets kids and families who value outdoor exploration and grandparents who long for their grandchildren to have the same unfettered time in nature as they did. The book features a wide range of hands-on activities for kids, including mud play, forts, animal tracking and forest wisdom,...

This is a simple book with 10 words that your child may need to spell. The child can read the words with you and then you can read the words to your child. You can encourage your child to write the word as they copy how to spell it correctly. You can then encourage your child when they are ready to spell the word. You can then have fun being the teacher or your child can be the teacher and you can check if the word was spelt correctly. Take turns...

Join Baby Beastie in the Monster Kitchen on her Culinary Quest for secrets and adventure as she battles unseen forces while seemingly biting off more than she can chew and having it bite her back. Your child can actively use their imagination and artistically record their interpretation of Baby Beastie's adventure every exciting and suspenseful step of the way throughout this interactive adventure. Look for more interactive books about the Beastie...

Counting has never been as fun and easy as it is with this book. Within these bright and colorful pages are farmers and animals to count. 1, 2, 3 To The Farm will keep children counting over and over again.

This is the sixth book in the Mrs. Good Choice Series. Each book is designed with characters that foster positive character traits: Respect, Responsibility, Honesty, Compassion and much more.Faith and Frisky is the story of a young girl that learns a valuable lesson about remembering that it is not about our outside appearance. With help from her mom, teacher, Mrs. Good Choice, and her pet dog, Frisky she learns what is most important.The Good Choice...

Readers are given a real thrill through this colorful, detailed, and fascinating trip to ancient Egypt, that explores the practice and treasures of mummification.

Christmas is a time of festivity and children love to be involved. Kids Christmas Activity Book will give them hours of enjoyment as they work through the pages that have lots of festive scenes and activity images. The book has more coloring pages than other content but this seems to be what children want at this time of year as it is only a once off. They look forward to Christmas all year long and cannot seem to get enough of anything with the festive...