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How to Navigate As you move your mouse over the menu above, if you have a JavaScript-enabled browser this paragraph will change and give you a description of that area. We recommend that you disable your pop-up blocker while browsing HSAdvisor.com because some of our pages will open up a new window. (Internet Browsing Tips) More Preschool 1 Year Courses Activities Arts & Crafts Bible Handwriting Maps Math Concepts Music Phonics & Reading Science & Health Stories Workbooks Please Read This When you click on a book title in this bookstore, a new window will pop up where you can review the book further. If you decide to buy the book, go ahead and click on the "Buy Now" button. This will place it in your Christianbook.com "Bookbag." Go ahead and close the new window and continue browsing curriculum here at HSAdvisor.com. When you want to view the items in your Bookbag or Wish List, use the links below: View Bookbag | View Wish List The Arts and Crafts Busy Book This book contains 365 creative and educational arts and crafts projects for children ages two to six that provide a great alternative to using TV as a baby-sitter. 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, play dough, 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, play dough, and craft clay with ingredients that can be found around the home. Celebrate holidays and other occasions with special projects and activities. The Arts and Crafts Busy Book is written with warmth and sprinkled with homor and insight. It should be required reading for anyone raising or teaching young children. The Arts and Crafts Busy Book: 365 Art and Craft Activities to Keep Toddlers and Preschoolers Busy (The links above will open a new window where you can further review the book and place it in your bookbag or wishlist.) Around the World Art & Activities Take your 3- to 7-year-olds on a whirlwind learning tour of all seven continents! The packing list? One homemade cereal-box suitcase, some simple household art supplies, and plenty of imagination. As kids build a 3-dimensional Eiffel Tower, make music on a didgeridoo, eat with chopsticks, weave Kente-style cloth, and more, they'll have fun and learn appreciation for other cultures. 128 pages, softcover from Williamson. Around the World Art & Activities: Visiting the 7 Continents (The links above will open a new window where you can further review the book and place it in your bookbag or wishlist.) Magic Mixtures Is there a child in the world who doesn't love to play with dough? Finger paints? Mud and other wonderfully plastic things? magic Mixtures: Creative Fun for Little Ones is full of recipies for all kinds of marvelous mixtures your children will love to jump right into. There are also super suggestions for teaching many valuable skills through manipulation of the mixtures. Your children will enjoy creating shapes and pictures and they will gain essential experiences with measuring ingredients, mixing, kneading, molding, and cleaning up. Children will work with textures and they will learn what happens when substances are combined. They can experiment with such delightful materials as flour, starch, salt, gelatin, frosting, tempera, food coloring, peanut butter, corn syrup, sand, plaster of paris, and even cement. All recipies use simple, easy -to-find ingredients, and contain detailed directions for preparation along with solid teaching suggestions. Help your youngsters develop important coordination skills and basic concepts (great works of art, too!) with lessons that make use of the magic of mixtures. Preschool-Grade 3. Magic Mixtures (The links above will open a new window where you can further review the book and place it in your bookbag or wishlist.) Little Hands Paper Plate Crafts A paper plate and a kid-who knew it could be so much fun? Talk about incredible! Just wait until you see the amazing paper-plate art that busy little hands create with preschool teacher Laura Check! Kids express their own inventive designs as they bring sea creatures and wild animals -dinos, too!-to life using color, shapes, and textures. Hats,hats and more hats expand kids' worlds with paper-plate headgear for all different occasions and careers,from a baker to an astronaut to a busy farmer. Kids set the stage for instant make-believe play with their own marvelous masks. You'll hear lions roar and pigs oink amid kids' laughter! Early learners tell time with a paper-plate clock, sew a homemade paper-plate button, and explore the universe with their own solar system mobilies. Yes, kids' imaginations soar as they begin thinking way outside of the box! And oh, what fun it is! Little Hands Paper Plate Crafts: Creative Art Fun for (The links above will open a new window where you can further review the book and place it in your bookbag or wishlist.) VeggieTales Deluxe Art Cart Just the thing to get kids' creative juices flowing! Sturdy plastic lap desk measures 11" x 15.5" and features an easel back, pull-along handle, and wheels. Tucked inside are 20 crayons, 12 felt-tip markers, 6 shaped sponges, 4 paint tubes, 1 paintbrush, 10 coloring pages, and 4 stencils. Ages 3 and up. VeggieTales Deluxe Art Cart (The links above will open a new window where you can further review the book and place it in your bookbag or wishlist.) Joseph The Canada Goose Art It's like two courses in one! Your 4- to 8-year-olds can practice their reading skills with the delightful tale about Mr. Elmer, a lonely old farmer who befriends some geese. Each page of the story directs students to a companion art lesson (with step-by-step directions) at the back of the book. Features illustrations by homeschooled children and a sketchbook. 104 reproducible pages, spiralbound softcover. Joseph The Canada Goose Art (The links above will open a new window where you can further review the book and place it in your bookbag or wishlist.) Play-Doh Art Projects Make moldable mosaics, create colorful cakes, fashion Faberge eggs---help your little Michelangelos express themselves in "doh"! Budding sculptors will have a ball with these 20 hands-on art projects based on everybody's favorite modeling clay. Includes easy-to-follow directions and five 1-ounce containers of Play-Doh. Ages 4 and up. 48 pages, spiralbound hardcover from Millbrook. Play-Doh Art Projects (The links above will open a new window where you can further review the book and place it in your bookbag or wishlist.) Kinkade Art for Kids Collection Send your preschoolers off to dreamland with prayers, blessings, Scripture verses . . . and wonderful reassuring images from Thomas Kinkade, the Painter of Light! 4" x 5" hardcovers. Kinkade Art for Kids Collection, 4 Volumes (The links above will open a new window where you can further review the book and place it in your bookbag or wishlist.) 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