Packed full of exciting ideas and powerful visual aids, A Creative Activities for the Early Years offers field-tested activities to help practitioners encourage and nurture young children's creativity and imagination. The author presents practical activities in art, dance and music and ideas on how to link them, and guidelines for making the most of music, lighting, space and nursery resources. This reader-friendly resource also provides: - Ideas for cross-curricular work - Suggestions for recording children's progress - Ideas for selecting materials
The variety of realistic, three-rail trackwork and trend toward reasonably-sized layouts makes simplistic, tabletop plans of the past unsuitable for today’s toy train operators. In this book, you’ll find 16 realistic, themed layout plans, each including track diagrams, wiring schemes, and a list of suggested equipment.
Creative strategies for getting young students excited about writingDon't Forget to Write for the Elementary Grades offers 50 creative writing lesson plans from the imaginative and highly acclaimed 826 National writing labs. Created as a resource to reach all students (even those most resistant to creative writing), the lessons range from goofy fun (like "The Other Toy Story: Make Your Toys Come to Life") to practical, from sports to science, music to mysteries. These lessons are written by experts, and favorite novelists, actors, and other celebrities pitched in too. Lessons are linked to the Common Core State Standards.
A book that show enthusiasts and beginners alike how to extend their skills and create exotic and elegant greeting cards, announcements and invitations from a huge range of materials. Each chapter explains the techniques for making a wide array of papers incorporating embossing powders, different styles of paints, foils and laminates, ribbons and yarns, and ordinary household items. Two fully illustrated, step-by-step projects are included in each chapter, with ideas for variations that will make each card an individual creation.
Creative Crochet Lace: A Freeform Look at Classic Crochet
Learn a new, freeform approach to traditional crochet openwork techniques that's easier than you can imagine! You'll discover 5 methods of crocheting lace done with a creative and fluid approach to create wonderful wearables, accessories and anything else you can imagine. No patterns necessary! First you'll discover the origins of crochet lace and then each freeform method, modified from a classic style, is explained in detail. All the basics you need to know including which materials to use, how to pick yarns and fibers and which hooks work best are explained too. There is also an in-depth discussion about "Lace Logic" and how different stitches and yarns work together.
