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"The Preschooler&#39;s Busy Book&nbsp;should be required reading for anyone raising or teaching preschool-age children, it&nbsp;is written with warmth and sprinkled with humor and insight.Preschooler&#39;s Busy Book book contains 365 screen-free activities (one for each day of the year) for three- to six-year-olds using things found around the home. It shows parents, baby-sitters, and day-care providers how to:  &mdash;Save money by making your own paints, play dough, craft clays, glue, paste and other arts and crafts supplies.  &mdash;Learn how to expand your child&rsquo;s arts and crafts horizons by learning how to print with rollers and sponges, make super goop and silly putty, make a paper-mache pi&ntilde;ata, a Chinese lantern, gingerbread people, a jellybean picture, play dough jewelry, spoon people, a pinwheel, a paper bag kite, party hats, an egg-carton butterfly, a noodle necklace, a feather headband, or a paper doll chain.  &mdash;Prevent boredom during even the longest stretches of rainy or cold weather with ideas for indoor play like newspaper golf, magnet magic, the listening game, red light/green light, and hand puppets.  &mdash;Help children learn to have fun in the kitchen making fruit kebabs, popsicles, homemade peanut butter, a happy-face sandwich, alphabet cookies, animal pancakes, finger Jell-O, popcorn ball creatures, and the best chocolate chip cookies in the whole world.  &mdash;Teach your child practical skills like setting the table, putting away the silverware, sorting socks, sewing practice, and carpentry (hammering golf tees into Styrofoam, with a toy hammer).  &mdash;Introduce your child to numbers and counting with activities like &ldquo;One-Two, Buckle My Shoe,&rdquo; telling time, coin and stamp collecting, sorting a mixed-up deck of cards by numbers and learning how to find today&rsquo;s date on a calendar.  &mdash;Prepare your child for reading by working on an alphabet puzzle, making alphabet cookies, making an alphabet book, and connecting the dots in alphabetical order to make a picture.  &mdash;Get your child started with music and rhythm by making a pie-plate tambourine, keeping the rhythm to a song on the radio with homemade rhythm blocks or shakers, or make music with musical glasses (filled with different amounts of water).  &mdash;Get your child moving with circle dances like &ldquo;Hokey Pokey,&rdquo; &ldquo;Skip to My Lou&rdquo; &ldquo;Ring Around the Rosie,&rdquo; and &ldquo;London Bridge.&rdquo;  &mdash;Encourage your child to enjoy quiet activities like reading wordless picture books, working on puzzles, and watching clouds&mdash;and then drawing them.  &mdash;Introduce children to nature with a variety of outdoor adventures from nature walks and picnics to backyard camping, bird feeding, mud painting and making waxed leaves.  &mdash;Start children growing things by planting apple seeds, avocado seeds or garlic cloves; or learning how to grow carrots, beets or sweet potatoes by putting cuttings into water.  &mdash;Celebrate holidays and other occasions with special projects and activities for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Easter and Passover.  &mdash;Keep children occupied on car trips by playing &ldquo;I See A-B-C&rdquo; or reciting &ldquo;30 Days Hath September.&rdquo;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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