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Books > Children's & Educational > Leisure interests, hobbies & sport > Practical interests & handicrafts
Whip up 6-Minute Healthy Potato Chips, 15 Bean Soup, Fizzy Fruit
Slushies, and other healthy vittles with this coloring
book/cookbook combo. More than 50 nutritious recipes encourage kids
to take an interest in following a balanced diet and to delight in
preparing and savoring fresh foods.
The simple dishes and snacks require only a few ingredients and
minimal effort. Recipes include such mealtime staples as Fun Fruit
Pizza, Cheesy Spaghetti Squash, Turkey Joes, and Macaroni Bake, as
well as Grape Pops, No-Bake Cookies, Sunflower Seeds, and other
healthful goodies. The fun-to-color pages feature a feast of
interesting facts, from where carrots originated (Afghanistan) to
the first cultivated fruit (grapes). Kids, parents, and other
adults will relish following the recipes and enjoying the tasty
results.
Where does your food come from? Could it be from a farm, your
garden or even the sea? There are a lot of food sources, and many
of them are unique, such as the desert, a mountainside or an urban
garden. Learn about some very unusual places around the world where
we get our food.
Make some magic with the delightful Enchanted Fairy House: Magical
Garden kit by Klutz! Bring three whimsical little fairy dolls to
life! Mix and match colourful glitter skirts, wooden beads, flowing
yarn hair and faux flowers to design and dress the fairies. After,
build their home and decorate it with tiny furniture, enchanted
flowers and faux moss. The kit includes: an instruction book for
guidance a fairy-sized storybook about the fairies paper punch-outs
wooden beads wire yarn in three colours faux flower petals glitter
fabric glue faux moss. What is Klutz? Klutz is a premium brand of
book-based activity kits, designed to inspire creativity in every
child. Our unique combination of crystal-clear instructions, custom
tools and materials and hearty helpings of humour is 100%
guaranteed to kick-start creativity. Super-clear instructions
Open-ended Creativity Rewarding Reading Skills to Build On
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Meet The Googlies by Jo Lodge! In It's Lunchtime, Monkey! children
will learn first words to do with meal times! Bold, googly eyes and
a sliding mechanism bring this adorable monkey to life, while
children share the simple story and point at the bright pictures.
An ideal book for babies, this title combines bright illustrations,
a simple story and first words - perfect as an introduction to meal
time routines for your little one! Read more in the series: Let's
Play, Cheetah; Time for Bed, Panda; Let's Go Out, Elephant
This engaging collection of more than 70 kid-friendly recipes for
breakfast, soups, salads, main courses, snacks and dessert will
have kids cooking up surprisingly healthy favorites without
sacrificing any of the flavors and ingredients they love. Healthy
eating doesn't have to be a bummer for the school-age crowd. With
this collection of 70+ tasty and nourishing recipes--kid-proven
favorites plus fun ideas for serving them--young chefs will learn
to cook enticing dishes that are also surprisingly nutritious. With
recipes such as healthyish banana bread, fruit-and-nut granola
bars, inside-out veggie sushi rolls, and chicken-pineapple kebabs,
aspiring cooks will be whipping up healthy dishes, featuring
flavors they love, for all times of the day. Helpful step-by-step
instructions, lavish photographs of finished dishes, colorful
illustrations, and expert tips and tricks will inspire kids to eat
well with yummy dishes they make themselves. This fifth volume in
the Junior Chef series continues to inspire and engage kids in the
kitchen with easy-to-follow recipes, fun serving ideas, and
straightforward cooking techniques.
Push, pull and slide the tabs to help clean up the Earth in Busy
Recycle! Watch the recycling truck do its work, reuse materials to
make a rocket and recycle your waste in this fun book about helping
the planet. Children will love playing with this bright and
colourful board book with gentle rhyming text and wonderful
illustrations by Mel Matthews, which is part of the popular Busy
Book series. Discover more of the Busy Book series with titles such
as Busy Grow, Busy Garden, Busy Pets and Busy Park.
Using dynamic how to photos and step-by-step instructions written
for ages 8 to 12, Amie Petronis Plumley and Andria Lisle teach a
variety of techniques using both hand and machine sewing. The 15
projects range from decorative to practical, including an appliqued
family crest wall hanging, a patchwork pet bed, a crazy quilt
journal cover, and a quilt made from recycled T- shirts. Every
project features encouraging suggestions for making truly
one-of-a-kind items that express the creative spirit of each young
maker.
DIY Survival Manual: Natural Disasters has the answers to help you
prepare for, survive and endure any major natural disaster. Packed
with easy to read step-by-step instructions, top tips and real-life
survivor accounts. Myth-busting boxes explain the science behind
the disasters and common misconceptions held. Discover how each
natural disaster is formed and how to always be prepared for every
likely scenario. Can you stay calm in the midst of an avalanche? Do
you know what to do when a tornado warning sounds? How can you
identify different types of wildfire? Take the tests and
on-the-spot quizzes to find out whether you are a true survivor.
Through a series of simple coloring exercises, the fascinating
world of colors will unfold before the eyes of your child. Children
slowly improve their fine motor skills as they encounter pages with
more colors and more complicated shapes.
A colossal cheat sheet for your post-college years, answering all
the needs of the modern woman--from mastering money to placating
overly anxious parents, from social media etiquette to the pleasure
and pain of dating (and why it's not a cliche to love yourself
first). A perfect combination of tried-and-true advice and
been-there tips, it's a one-stop resource that includes how to
clean up your digital reputation, info on finding an apartment you
can afford and actually want to live in, and why you should
exercise the delicate art of defriending. Plus the fundamentals,
from health (mental and physical) to spirituality to ethics to
fashion, all delivered in Melissa Kirsch's fresh, personal, funny
voice--as if your best friend were giving you the best and smartest
advice in the world.
Packed with make and do activities and over 200 stickers, What the
Ladybird Heard Make and Do Book is a great gift for any child -
ideal for rainy days and holidays. Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len are two
crafty robbers with a cunning plan to steal the farmer's fine prize
cow. But little do they know that the tiniest, quietest creature of
all has overhead their plot, and she has a plan of her own! Join
the farmyard adventures and find out how to make a clucking red
hen, a farmyard playset, and your very own pair of flapping
ladybird wings! Based on the bestselling picture book What the
Ladybird Heard by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks.
Craft meets STEAM in these lively books that will help you design,
build and create! Get ready to build your very own biosphere or
mini-garden! From fountains to greenhouses grounds and grass art,
the step-by-step projects will give you all the instructions you
need to make every element a model biosphere needs. Every project
has been designed to work using things you can find lying around at
home, like disposable containers and packaging, and basic art and
craft equipment. Why not check out the other books in the Maker
Models series? Each book focuses on a place and will go through
creating various parts of the structure. You could learn to make a
space centre, a fairground, a transport hub, a mini-garden and
biosphere or a theatre and film set and all the elements that
constitute them. For children aged 9+, this illustrated series will
be great for rainy days and science days and a good inspiration for
DT classes and clubs.
Get ready to become a master of slime with these fifteen DIY
recipes from YouTube sensation Karina Garcia! With step-by-step
instructions, you'll finally learn how to make Liquid Gold Slime,
Glow-in-the-Dark Slime, Balloon, Slime and more from easily
available, harmless household ingredients. Along with four
brand-new recipes, this book also includes tips on how to store
your slime, all the amazing things you can do with slime, and fun,
cool facts about Karina.
Every year Henry and his dad (with help from Mudge, of course) make
Henry's mother a funny lunch for Mother's Day. Shopping for their
juicy, crunchy surprise is fun, and preparing it is even more fun.
But sharing it with Henry's mother is the most fun of all!
"Equally informative and appetite-whetting." -- "The Horn Book"
One of the best parts of a young child's day is opening a lunchbox
and diving in. But how did that delicious food get there? From
planting wheat to mixing dough, climbing trees to machine-squeezing
fruit, picking cocoa pods to stirring a vat of melted bliss, here
is a clear, engaging look at the steps involved in producing some
common foods. Health tips and a peek at basic food groups complete
the menu.
This title lets you become a pirate, a ghoul, a spotty dog, and
more. Features: 25 fantastic disguises to turn you into the zaniest
characters - become an alien, paint on your sports kit and even
become a birthday present; all the techniques are fully explained -
from applying the base paint and making up lips and eyes, to taking
care of equipment and removing the paint afterwards; Thomasina
Smith's projects are great to do with a friend but just as easy to
follow on your own; step-by-step photographs show you what to do;
ideal for 7- to 12-year-olds, with simple designs to start off with
and more sophisticated ones for older kids. Face and body painting
can change you into someone - or even something - entirely
different. The art form has a tradition that goes back thousands of
years. In many ancient cultures, it was used to camouflage
tribespeople when they went hunting, or as part of religious
customs. In our society today, we use face and body painting mostly
to have fun and to entertain - as is the case with the projects in
this book! You can paint yourself for special occasions, costume
parties, school plays or to go to a wonderful street carnival.Even
putting on ordinary make-up is a form of face painting. With little
more than a collection of face paints, sponges and brushes, you can
become a cunning leopard, an Egyptian queen, a scary vampire or
even Santa Claus. So, go on and transform yourself, a friend or
even your parents! There is no end of fun to be had.
Food,nutrition, Diseases related to food, food allergies, diet and
recipes are the subject of this section. A highly useful collection
of encyclopedias which will help young readers to become conscious
about food and its impact.
Packed with games, strategies, lessons, and challenges, Photo
Adventures for Kids makes learning about photographic composition
and framing easy and fun. Look up! Look down! Move around!
Everywhere you go, there are great pictures just waiting to be
made! Kids love to take pictures. With Photo Adventures for Kids,
you can encourage your child's passion while exploring the art of
photography together. With this book, your child will become an
official Photo Adventurer and go on a very important mission to
solve the greatest mystery of photography--learning how to find a
great photograph no matter where they are. Whether they're at home
or at school, in the backyard or on a field trip, in the city or in
nature, they'll learn the important lesson of how to "see" where
the best photographs are hidden in any location. Packed with games,
strategies, lessons, and challenges, Photo Adventures for Kids
makes learning about photographic composition and framing easy and
fun. The book also features a cutout "viewfinder" device at the
back of the book, which kids can use to explore their environment.
In Photo Adventures for Kids, your child will learn all about:
Composition Framing Perspective Leading lines Subject placement And
much more! The mission is to find great photographs anywhere and
everywhere. Hurry! Adventure awaits!
Gardening with children is hands-on outdoor education at its
finest. With abundant opportunities for experiential learning, the
garden is, in many ways, an ideal classroom, and an increasing
number of educational initiatives are recognising the many long-
and short-term benefits that come with a gardening program for
children. Growing Sustainable Children is an indispensable resource
for anyone already teaching in a gardening programme, for those
starting a programme, or for anyone working with children in a
garden or other outdoor setting as a homeschooler, community
organiser, or friend of the earth. The book includes a detailed
age-appropriate curriculum and activity listings from nursery and
kindergarten through high school, as well as a useful overview of
the history of gardening education and the evolving consciousness
of children.
Take an inspirational journey through the seasons with this
beautifully illustrated RHS children's almanac. Created with the
Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), the UK's leading gardening
charity, this stunning book is perfect for inspiring a love of
nature. Watch the seasons unfold as you leaf through this
gorgeously illustrated almanac. With stunning illustrations, each
page introduces a magical moment in nature with enchanting poetry
and stories. Meanwhile, gardening spreads, recipes, outdoor
activities and fascinating nature facts help you discover more
about the wonderful world around you, from amazing animal
migrations to a close-up view of the animal world beneath the soil.
The perfect gift to treasure, with sumptuous shiny foil finishes on
the cover Stunning illustrations and nature poems and stories take
you on a wonderful journey through nature This amazing book will
inspire children and (grown-ups!) The perfect book to help you
connect with nature.
Craft meets STEAM in these lively books that will help you design,
build and create! Get ready to build your very own space centre!
From rockets and rocket launchers to a Mars rover and a night sky
projector, step-by-step projects will give you all the instructions
you need to make every element a model space centre needs. Learn
about principles of design and engineering as well as craft
techniques to unleash your creativity! Every project has been
designed to work using things you can find lying around at home,
like disposable containers and packaging, and basic art and craft
equipment. Why not check out the other books in the Maker Models
series? Each book focuses on a building and will go through
creating various parts of the structure. You could learn to make a
castle and its grounds, a fairground, a transport hub, a
mini-garden and biosphere or a theatre and film set and all the
elements that constitute them. For children aged 9+, this
illustrated series will be great for rainy days and science days
and a good inspiration for DT classes and clubs.
Have you ever thought about your dreams and if you could achieve
them? Guess what? You can! It just takes changing the way you think
to change your life. Unlock the secrets to success in school,
sports, music, art-just about anything in life-with the information
in Nothing You Can't Do!: The Secret Power of Growth Mindsets. By
discovering the secrets included in this illustrated, funny, and
interactive book, you'll learn how to develop a growth mindset,
where you look at life through a more optimistic lens, learn how to
handle mistakes in a positive way, and find all of the
possibilities in yourself, even those you didn't know were there!
With the power of a growth mindset, there's nothing you can't do!
Ages 9-12
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