Say goodbye to boredom with this fantastic outdoor boredom buster book! From the hilarious Andy Seed, Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2015 for Best Books with Facts comes the fantastically busy Anti-boredom Book of Brilliant Outdoor Things to do. The outdoors are boring right? Wrong! Not when you've got Andy Seed's Anti-boredom Book of Brilliant Outdoor Things to do! Suitable for all seasons, find out how to set bug traps, create a rainbow, construct an amazing summer slide and much, much more! But what about those rainy summer days we hear you cry? Not a problem! This book also includes awesome indoor activities about the outdoors for rainy days. Design your own mini parachute, create the worlds most amazing frisbee, or create a bird feeder to keep your feathered friends well fed! A brilliant book bursting with amazing outdoor activities that will have you running for the door! Packed full of hilarious illustrations from the wonderful Scott Garrett, this book will keep you entertained for hours on end! Andy Seed's laugh-out-loud 'Anti-boredom' series has something for everyone! A seemingly endless car journey to visit your long lost aunty? Andy's got an activity for that! A boring rainy afternoon stuck indoors? Andy's got a joke for that! A dull holiday with no one to play with? Andy's got a game for that! Say goodbye to your boredom blues with Andy Seed's fantastic range of Anti-boredom books!

Ever wanted your own fuzzy bear, cheeky squirrel or rascally racoon who could fit in your pocket? Then Zap! Extra Pom-Pom Forest Friends is for you!

Packed with everything that you need to make and decorate your own forest pom-pom friends, this kit contains a 48-page book with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions, demonstrating how to make ten adorable creatures, a forest for them to live in and more!

What's Included

- 2 pom-pom makers

- 3 balls of 12-metre (13-yard) yarn

- Styling comb

- Glue

- 6 beads

- 4 mini pom-poms

- 4 squares of felt

- 48-page book

A monkey, and tiger and panda, oh my! Bring the entire zoo home (in one simple activity kit)! Your youngest crafters will love creating ten adorable animals from colourful clothespins. This craft is great for developing fine motor skills, with easy-to-use and durable supplies in an all-in-one kit. Kids can go wild making them, clipping them and turning their world into a jungle.

A craft for every day of Advent, or just to keep children entertained in the run up to Christmas. You can make decorations, your own Christmas cards, and a variety of gift boxes and trimmings. Each activity is wonderfully simple with only a few steps to each craft and will give satisfying results in minutes - or hours can be whiled away with glittery embellishments.

Unleash your inner artist with Coloring Crush. The set includes everything you need to make dreamy, just-add-colour works of art. And, for those who can't find the pointy end of a pencil, this set includes a crash course in: using coloured pencilsblending and layeringcolour schemeinspirations artist-approved techniques. It's everything a budding artist could want!

The past comes alive through craft projects celebrating Minnesota's history and people. Imagine soldiers on the Civil War battlefield as you assemble a "housewife" sewing kit like those made by wives and mothers. Re-create the drama of a midwestern tornado when you build an automaton that actually spins, and celebrate the invention of water-skiing with a boat and skier that really glide. Step-by-step instructions carefully guide you to make your own marionette, but it's up to you to stage the puppet show. The playful miniature scene of a Day of the Dead nicho offers a way to honor a loved one. A woodland hike will provide the twigs and leaves to make a troll. A walking stick in the tradition of folk artist Maurice Carlton inspires you to create art out of what you can find. These projects and more generate hours of fun, not to mention useful pieces you'll want to share with your family and friends.
Wendy Freshman is a program specialist for family audiences at the Minnesota History Center. Kristin Jansson is a freelance prop and prototype designer and a former costumer with the Children's Theatre Company.

Ever wanted to personalise your space with awesome and quirky creations that can also be practical? Ever wanted to bring party decorations and presents to the next level? Then Zap! Extra Mini Piñatas is for you!

Packed with everything that you need to make and decorate your own collection of mini piñatas, this kit contains a 48-page book with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions that demonstrate how to make 12 awesome piñata masterpieces, and more.

What's Included

- 1 roll of 4-metre-long (13-foot) jute cord

- 3 rolls of 10-metre-long (33-foot) crepe paper

- 8 balloons

- 6 jiggly eyes

- 4 sheets of card

- 48-page book

When Grandma gives you a lemon tree, definitely don't make a face! Care for the tree, and you might be surprised at how new things, and new ideas, bloom. "Charms from cover to cover." --Kirkus (Starred review) "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." In this imaginative take on that popular saying, a child is surprised (and disappointed) to receive a lemon tree from Grandma for her birthday. After all, she DID ask for a new gadget! But when she follows the narrator's careful--and funny--instructions, she discovers that the tree might be exactly what she wanted after all. This clever story, complete with a recipe for lemonade, celebrates the pleasures of patience, hard work, nature, community . . . and putting down the electronic devices just for a while.

This title features eighteen different cake recipes that will impress your party guest but which are surprisingly easy to make. Extensively tested recipes are explained with step-by-step instructions makes this lovely baking book fool-proof, even for beginner cooks. It is packed full of ideas for decorating cakes including icing and piping techniques, how to make decorations from marzipan and chocolate, and even how to make your own paper confetti, flags and cake toppers.

The perfect children's cookbook for creative kids everywhere, this bumper collection of more than 100 recipes is guaranteed to help young cooks on their way to becoming a master chef. Whether it's baking, poaching, slicing, or roasting the Complete Children's Cookbook will inspire children and help them get the most out of their cooking. From fruit smoothies and chicken wraps to cupcakes and milkshakes, this recipe book will encourage kids to whip up all sorts of delicious snacks, main courses, breads, cakes, and vegetarian recipes. The easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions make sure dishes turn out exactly as they should, and top tips and advice on preparation and cooking will help budding chefs become creative cooks! With so many recipes to make there's something to tickle everyone's palate!

Help your kids build the skills to create their very own story in The Write Your Own Book Book Kids are creative, imaginative and love telling stories. The Write Your Own Book Book guides your child through the excitement of writing their very own story. From setting the scene to describing an action, each section focuses on a different skill for your child to focus on, gradually building up to the very end where your child can write their own story. If your child gets stuck "talking point" boxes will spark new creative ideas or help children get the story started. "Word boxes" help develop kids vocabulary and enhance their story. Plus, there's plenty of drawing inside too, including a space to illustrate your own personalised book cover. Your child will be able to master writing skills required by the national curriculum in The Write Your Own Book Book, including recounting events and persuasive writing.

Bored with board games? Sick of charades? Had it with hide-and-sick? It's time to learn some real kidskillz! Step-by-step instructions teach you the essentials: How to booby-trap a room, how to pop a wheelie, how to win at thumb wrestling, how to spin a basketball on one finger... and much more! If you've got to be a kid, then you've got to have this book!

Hierdie boek is propvol handwerk, resepte, speletjies en aktiwiteite vir meisies wat kreatief wil raak en nuwe dinge wil probeer - van hoe om smaaklike vrugte en groente te kweek tot hoe om jou meubels te verfraai. Binne-in is daar baie dinge om te doen, of jy alleen of saam met jou vriendinne is. Binne of buite, reen of sonskyn, daar's pret vir alle geleenthede. Of jy 'n piekniek beplan, jou slaapkamer se voorkoms verander, of lekkernye vir 'n middernagfees bak, dit is presies die boek vir jou!

This title is in the same series as 'Gardening for Beginners', but it's exclusively about growing edible plants, from fruit and vegetables to mustard and cress, sprouting beans and edible flowers. As with the previous book, everything is grown in containers and many of the projects can be grown on a windowsill or small balcony, so you don't need a garden.

Kids Learn to Stitch is the latest title in the very successful Kids Learn to...series developed by author and illustrator team Lucinda Guy and Francois Hall. Kids Learn to Stitch follows the same course-based theme and style as the previous two books, providing six cute little projects to practise after each new group of hand stitches has been mastered. Created from felt and stitched with wool, the colourful little animal and bird projects will encourage both children and adults to pick up a needle and learn to hand stitch. Very soon they will be able to create a range of hand stitches, from simple straight ones to more advanced loop stitches, and combine them in lots of exciting new ways.

A how-to guide to making your own collages, brimful of fascinating hints and tips from a master of the genre.

Over the course of a 40-year career, Jeannie Baker has perfected the art of collage in the creation of picture-book classics such as Where the Forest Meets the Sea and Window, a Boston Globe-Horn Honour Book. Her stunning pieces, devised by assembling all sorts of different textures, are known all around the globe. Whether it's dried flowers or tiny shells, spaghetti or postage stamps, she uses the world around her to make work that is astonishingly beautiful and deeply creative. And she focuses on a range of important issues including the environment, land degradation, family, society and sustainability. In Playing with Collage, she shares her secrets at last - and encourages her readers to get creative. Within each of this book's four main sections, Jeannie presents an abstract collage of her own and offers suggestions and starting points for beginners. There are no right or wrong answers in this treasure of a book, it's all about trusting your instincts ... and playing!

How does a field of corn become a delicious bowl of popcorn? The story behind the fluffy snack the entire country loves is revealed in this photographic nonfiction picture book. Kids love food--and they especially love to eat popcorn! Author Cris Peterson offers an illuminating step-by-step examination of the history and science behind America's favorite snack. With photographs illustrating every stage, readers get a behind-the-scenes view of how popcorn is planted, grown, harvested, processed, tested, and finally shipped to stores and movie theaters all over the world. Back matter delves into the history of popcorn and how it became so popular in the United States.

Create and decorate your own mini cakes, cookies, and pies with easy-peasy, no BAKE, air-dry clay. This kit includes all of the "ingredients" and instructions for rolling out clay just like fondant. Make faux flowers, stack on the sprinkles, add expressive faces and more! Display your clay creations on a mini cake stand or in a bakery box to highlight your baking talents! It's a bake shop of cute clay confectionary.

This book will show you how to grow flowers and all kinds of plants in your garden. Planting My Garden is a book-banded reading book for developing readers, carefully levelled at Red Book Band for guided reading. Illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs, this 325-word non-fiction title is suitable for struggling teen and adult readers. Planting My Garden features a short, highly-structured text with limited vocabulary, slightly longer, predictable texts, short and clear sentences, and simple story development. It has clear text, appropriate fonts and obvious spacing. Planting My Garden is part of Ransom's Neutron Stars, a structured reading programme for teens and adults learning the basics of reading. The series offers progression through ten levels of reading, four phonics and six coloured book bands. More information on the structure of the scheme can be found here.

Make your own gorgeous tiaras in Twinkly Tiaras! Wouldn't it be wonderful if there were one universal accessory? Something you could wear anywhere - fortunately, as every child knows, there is: the tiara, the perfect goes-with-everything accessory. This book comes with three ready-to-design tiaras - and a stencil for making countless more - along with a treasure trove of sparkly doodaas for decorating them. Add a bonus of mini-tiaras (in case any dolls or teddies around the kingdom start feeling a bit left out), and it will give any little child that happily-ever-after feeling.