Features creative experiments designed to encourage young children to use their natural curiosity to explore, test, play, and tinker.

Presents thirty-five simple music, nature, science, and paper craft ideas for children that can be made using easy-to-find materials from around the home.

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.

"Welcome to spring on the homestead! Roll up your sleeves, step into nature, and embrace a simpler life with this wholesome, spring-themed activity book. Discover fun ways to celebrate the season, learn new cooking, planting, and crafting skills, and find out how to make the most of nature's gift"--Back cover.

"Does climbing a tree, building a bug hotel, spearing a bullfrog, stalking wild animals, and scouting for petrified wood sound more fun than homework or chores? If so, this guide is your perfect companion to endless summer days and rainy fall afternoons alike. Filled with advice, insights, and activities to inspire wonder and excitement about the natural world, Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars is a curious kid's treasure trove, filled to the brim...

"In the newest installment of the popular, award-winning Loose Parts series, Lisa Daly and Miriam Beloglovsky focus on family engagement and competency building. Lisa and Miriam explain the value of loose parts, detail how to integrate loose parts into the environment and children's play, and specifically focus on loose parts for children in family environments-helping educators engage families and extend learning beyond the classroom"--

Do The Alphabet: When Baby Bear must learn his alphabet in one day, Big Bird patiently takes him under his wing. Only The Method, (a hilarious combination of dance, song, visualization, and group therapy) can help Baby Bear on such short notice. Imagine That: the gang is glum when a rainy day ruins their outside play, but their boredom turns to adventure when a recycling box provides just what's needed for great indoor adventures.

Hands-on crafty science book introduces children to science concepts through craft projects with everyday objects. Combines art, craft, and cooking activities with scientific learning. Children can learn how to make a toy raft and discover what makes their boat float, design and color a paper butterfly and watch it balance on the tip of a pencil, or create an ice sculpture and learn about the changing states of solids and liquids. Concepts like buoyancy,...

"With new activities and explorations, tips and information to help you understand how to support the littlest learners, and research nuggets to enhance your own professional knowledge, the Encyclopedia of Infant and Toddler Activities, revised, will be your go-to resource! Learn about the rapid brain growth in the earliest years. Discover how infants and toddlers learn through active exploration. Learn how to create a developmentally appropriate...