You can create rich, imaginative play experiences for your child using things you already have on hand! Kruse, Roberson and Johnson provide a year of screen-free dramatic play scenarios for adults to set up and kids to engage with. Each month's activity is paired with simple crafts and fun activities that encourage fine and gross motor practice, language development, mathematical thinking, and scientific thinking. Projects can be tailored to your...

"Creation Lake is a novel about a freelance agent, a 34-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics and bold opinions and clean beauty, who is sent to do dirty work in France. "Sadie Smith" is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader. We never learn her real name. Sadie has met her lover, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by "cold bump"-- making...

"A fascinating, challenging book." ― A.L.A. Booklist
Learn to use the most important codes and methods of secret communication in use since ancient times. Cipher and decipher codes used by spies. Explore the famous codes that changed the fate of nations and political leaders. And enjoy hours of fun experimenting with cryptography ― the science of secret writing.
Beginning with simple letter substitutions and transposition...

"Whether you're home with the chicken pox or stuck inside on a rainy day, this lively picture book offers 26 fun suggestions for what to do when there's nothing to do. It's the ultimate boredom buster, with engaging suggestions from A to Z!" -- Book jacket.

"Bring out your children's creativity and imagination with more than 60 kids' art activities from the creator of www.ArtfulParent.com. Art making is a wonderfully fun way for young children to tap into their imagination, deepen their creativity, and explore new materials, all while strengthening their fine motor skills and developing self-confidence. The Artful Parent has all the tools and information you need to encourage your children's creativity...

Loose parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or upcycled materials that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their play. Daly and Beloglovsky show you how using loose parts can help you capture children's curiosity, give free reign to their imagination, and motivate learning. By developing creative environments, children will be encouraged to explore critical thinking in myriad ways.

From bestselling kids' activity author Dawn Isaac comes this exciting new volume full of creative (and occasionally outrageous) ideas for budding young scientists. Whether your child is crazy about chemistry or bananas about biology (or, let's face it, just likes making a mess), this book is choc-a-block full of experiments and projects that will get kids really excited about science - and all without going anywhere near a TV, tablet or computer screen....

Offers one hundred projects for indoor activities, including making salt dough, decorating eggs, building a tin can telephone, and baking cookies.

More than 150 fun and creative projects. Projects range from easy to complicated. A clock illustration lets you know if a project will take a long time to create. Most can be made from basic craft supplies. --back cover.