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Better Homes and Gardens New Junior Cookbook
by Better Homes and Gardens (Spiral-bound)

Written and designed for children 8–12 years of age who are beginning to cook on their own or have some cooking experience.52 fun, easy-to-make recipes. Each recipe includes utensil list, ingredient list, numbered method steps, and preparation and cooking times.Cooking Basics chapter includes helpful information like, the basics of reading recipes, kitchen safety, planning menus, basic nutrition information and the Food Guide Pyramid, and how to read food labels.Every recipe has been kid-tested and kid-tasted and kid-approved in the Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchen.50 full-color photographs, includes a finished food photograph for every recipe.50 large, full-color, fun illustrations.A message to parents includes advice for cooking with kids and gives craft recipes for modeling clay, finger paints, and bubbles.Concealed wire-o binding allows book to lie flat for easy use.

Trish Kuffner, Liya Lev Oertel
The Toddler's Busy Book
by Meadowbrook Press (Paperback)

365 fun, creative activities to stimulate your toddler every day of the year.This book contains 365 activities (one for each day of the year) for one-and-a-half to three-year-olds using things found around the home. It shows parents and day-care providers how to:Prevent boredom during the longest stretches of indoor weather with ideas for indoor play, kitchen activities, and arts and crafts projects.Stimulate a child's natural curiosity with entertaining math, language, and motor-skills activities.Encourage a child's physical, mental, and emotional growth with ideas for fun music, food, water, and outdoor activities.Keep toddlers occupied during long car trips or cross-town errands.The Toddler's Busy Book is written with warmth and sprinkled with humor and insight. It should be required reading for anyone raising or teaching toddlers.

Klutz Book of Paper Airplanes
by Klutz (Spiral-bound)

Folding a single sheet of paper into a high performance, blow-the-competition-away flying paper machine has never been easier. Comes with clear instructions for folding 10 impressive kid do-able planes and 40 sheets of custom-designed paper in a variety of groovy patterns. It’s a complete guide to folding aerobatic amazements.

Dover
Origami Fun Kit for Beginners (Dover Fun Kit)
by Dover Publications (Paperback)

This affordable kit has everything beginners need to master the age-old art of paperfolding, including three books by origami expert John Montroll. Birds in Origami shows how to create a swan, flamingo, duck, stork, and goose. Favorite Animals in Origami offers basic folds for a cat, elephant, seal, and other creatures; and Easy Origami features subjects ranging from an ultra-simple hat to a rabbit. The kit also contains sheets of primary colored, multicolored, and metallic paper. * 3 great starter books * 55 fun-to-do projects * Over 1,000 easy-to-follow illustrations * 96 sheets of authentic origami paper

Paper Fashions (Klutz)
by Klutz (Spiral-bound)

Turn colorful paper, ribbons and beads into glamorous fashion and accessories. All designs are completely customizable and the provided stencils will have you creating boutiques-full of outfits for shopping in the city, or heading to the ball. Miniature hangers are included so you can turn your designs into fashionable stationery, bookmarks, magnets and more. Bellisima!

Taro Gomi
Scribbles: A Really Giant Drawing and Coloring Book
by Chronicle Books (Paperback)

This book is for coloring, doodling, drawing, imagining, and thinking!

Paper Fashions Fancy (Klutz)
by Klutz (Spiral-bound)

Introducing our Spring 2008 collection - Paper Fashions Fancy. This season it's all about glamour. We've designed a brand new set of patterned and colored papers, including some with glitter, foil, and velvety black flocking. There's a new selection of seed beads, sequins, ribbon, and more than a hundred sticky-back "jewels" for embellishing the fashions. And, of course, the tiny wire hangers are back - this time we include clever ideas for decorating those hangers to make them gown-worthy.

Aimee Ray
Doodle Stitching: Fresh & Fun Embroidery for Beginners
by Lark Books (Paperback)

Asian-inspired lampshades embellished with flying fish. Canvas sneakers decorated with pink and white swirls. A pretty pillow adorned with a sleeping bunny, sweetly curled up. All it takes to create these appealing projects—or add charming embroidered touches in no time at all—are a few simple stitches, some easy techniques, and the nearly 30 projects in this book. Begin by learning several styles for outlining, filling, decorating, and appliqué. Find out about floss, fancy threads, fabrics, and needles. Get the scoop on hoops, and the lowdown on transferring your very own designs onto every type of fabric. The fresh ideas, witty patterns, and clever color illustrations take stitchers from novice to accomplished in a blink of the eye!

American Girl Editors
Just Mom and Me: The Tear-out, Punch-out, Fill-out Book of Fun for Girls and Their Moms (American Girl Library)
by American Girl Publishing Inc (Spiral-bound)

This book is full of fun things for girls to do with their moms, from the new to the tried and true. They can tear out and share the notes and gift coupons, test their knowledge of each other with checklists made for two, and get to know each other even better with games and activities that are sure to leave them giggling. Tear-outs include quizzes, checklists, recipes, door hangers, bookmarks, notes, coupons, a photo frame, leaves for a family tree, CD case covers, and more.

Friendship Bracelets (Klutz)
by Klutz (Spiral-bound)

Super-clear directions for ten different kinds of bracelets, with all the colorful floss and beads you need to make all of them. A built-in clipboard provides the ideal work surface for this coolest of crafts.

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