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The Preschooler's Busy Book - (Busy Books) by Trish Kuffner (Paperback)

The Preschooler's Busy Book - (Busy Books) by  Trish Kuffner (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Prevent boredom during even the longest stretches of bad weather with ideas for indoor play, kitchen activities, and arts-and-crafts projects. Illustrations.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong><em>The Preschooler's Busy Book</em></strong> 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: </p><p> </p> <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> <p> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Trish Kuffner</b> lives with her husband and five children just outside Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the author of <i>The Toddler's Busy Book, The Preschooler's Busy Book, The Children's Busy Book, The Arts & Crafts Busy Book</i>, and <i>The Wiggle & Giggle Busy Book</i>.

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