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Arts and Crafts (9 products)

arts and crafts teaching resource  book for preschoolNEW! The Best of The Mailbox Magazine: Arts and Crafts: PreK

Grade Level: Preschool
Price: $16.95
Product #: 2061077
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Get a fresh supply of fun and educational arts and crafts activities with this collection of ideas! Arts and crafts will be fun for everyone with the ideas in this teacher resource book! This book features over 150 activities carefully chosen from the 1998-2004 issues of The Mailbox Magazine's preschool edition.

Each activity in this teaching resource uses only easy-to-find materials and features step-by-step directions and a colorful illustration. Plus, patterns and a handy index make planning easy! Activities are divided into five sections-Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer, and Anytime. This resource book will be a year round source of ideas!

Every one of the activities in this teaching book is matched to your preschoolers' skills and abilities. Spend less time planning your arts and crafts and more time enjoying them with your students!

Pages: 112
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Hooray for Art: Preschool/Kindergarten
Our complete line of The Best of The Mailbox Magazine series of teaching books
The Mailbox Magazine


arts and crafts teaching supplies for kindergarten - first gradeNEW! The Best of The Mailbox Magazine: Arts and Crafts: K-1

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $16.95
Product #: 2061078
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Get a fresh supply of fun and educational arts and crafts activities with this collection of ideas! Arts and crafts will be fun for everyone with the ideas in this teacher resource book! This book features over 150 activities carefully chosen from the 1998-2004 issues of The Mailbox Magazine's preschool edition.

Each activity in this teaching resource uses only easy-to-find materials and features step-by-step directions and a colorful illustration. Plus, patterns and a handy index make planning easy! Activities are divided into five sections-Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer, and Anytime. This resource book will be a year round source of ideas!

Every one of the activities in this teaching book is matched to your preschoolers' skills and abilities. Spend less time planning your arts and crafts and more time enjoying them with your students!

Pages: 112
You may also like:
Hooray for Art: Preschool/Kindergarten
Our complete line of The Best of The Mailbox Magazine series of teaching books
The Mailbox Magazine


arts and crafts teacher resource book for second grade thru third gradeNEW! The Best of The Mailbox Magazine: Arts and Crafts: Gr. 2-3

Grade Level: Second Grade - Third Grade
Price: $16.95
Product #: 2061079
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Get a fresh supply of fun and educational arts and crafts activities with this collection of ideas! Arts and crafts will be fun for everyone with the ideas in this teacher resource book! This book features over 150 activities carefully chosen from the 1998-2004 issues of The Mailbox Magazine's preschool edition.

Each activity in this teaching resource uses only easy-to-find materials and features step-by-step directions and a colorful illustration. Plus, patterns and a handy index make planning easy! Activities are divided into five sections-Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer, and Anytime. This resource book will be a year round source of ideas!

Every one of the activities in this teaching book is matched to your preschoolers' skills and abilities. Spend less time planning your arts and crafts and more time enjoying them with your students!

Pages: 112
You may also like:
Our complete line of The Best of The Mailbox Magazine series of teaching books
The Mailbox Magazine


Art teacher resource bookHooray for Art!

Grade Level: Preschool / Kindergarten
Price: $19.95
Product #: 2060941
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A year's worth of arts and crafts projects!

The perfect art activity for any day is now right at your fingertips! In this one big teacher resource, you'll find over 280 fresh and fun projects for every season and major holiday, plus activities your youngsters can complete any time of the year.

Best of all, the projects were created by early childhood teachers so they're right on target for what little hands can handle.

The activities are simple with little or no preparation time needed. Full-color illustrations take out all the guesswork, while the simple, straightforward steps ensure success.

Your young students will love creating these fun art projects, and their parents are sure to cherish the keepsake crafts too!

160 pages


graph artSimple Graph Art

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $8.99
Product #: 1000095
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This graph art activity book is a compilation of kindergarten - first grade level pictures which are designed to fit graph paper squares. The child colors in the squares on graph paper according to directions on a direction sheet and a mystery picture appears.

Includes 22 graph art pictures with a variety of themes. Each has a direction page and learning design page.

While completing these fun graph art pictures students will learn the following objectives:

  • beginning reading skills (left-right, top-bottom sequence)
  • beginning graphing skills
  • transference
  • small motor coordination
  • following specific directions
  • concentration on a task
  • paying attention to details

Pages: 48
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craft projectsCreative Kids: Creative Crafts for Clever Kids

Grade Level: Second - Fifth Grade
Price: $15.99
Product #: 1003195
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Inspire creativity with 90 hands-on activities that have easy-to-follow directions. The exciting projects in this book will provide your children with many happy hours of creative activity.

"Materials" lists everything necessary to complete the project. The main craft ideas are extended with "More Ideas", which offers alternatives for decorating and using the completed projects and for creating different ones.

Most materials are readily available from hobby shops, hardware and fabric stores, or your local grocery. You may find some of the materials in your home-or even in your own backyard. Don't be afraid to substitute if you think something else may work instead of-or better than-what is suggested. The emphasis here is on being creative.

For your convenience, the crafts are divided into sections according to the main type of material used:

  • Paper Productions: Create fantastic paper products like a rocking horse, newspaper fan, and building logs.
  • Kitchen Capers: Craft everyday food items into potato hedgehogs, apple votive candles, or pasta butterflies.
  • Natural Necessities: Design dandelion jewelry, mud building bricks, or nature masks.
  • Claydough Creations: Learn the best recipes for modeling everything from birthday candle holders to potted plant people.
  • Fabric Finery: Convert fabric, ribbon, felt, and yarn into everything from dolls to indoor tennis rackets.
  • Hardware Handiwork: Turn old nuts, bolts, washers, cans, and cup hooks into wind chimes and sculptures.
  • Trash Treasures: Create new items from cans, milk jugs, and egg cartons.

Pages: 160
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art projects for seasonsCreative Kids: Art for All Seasons

Grade Level: First Grade - Fifth Grade
Price: $15.99
Product #: 1003198
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Spanning seasons and holidays throughout the year, Art for All Seasons is a complete resource book for parents, teachers, and anyone who works with children. Using readily obtainable materials and easy-to-follow directions, the art projects in this book are the ideal choice when searching for a seasonal project.

Celebrate fall with projects featuring sponge-painted trees, candy buckets, and hand-print turkeys.

Create cozy winter crafts like a lacy angel, a pop-up card, and pencil toppers.

Greet spring breezes with a bunny wind sock, pressed flowers suncatchers, and a paper bag piñata.

Welcome summer's sun with melted-crayon flowers, sun X-rays, and a fireworks hat.

The activities in this book make use of materials that are easily obtained. Most of the items you probably already have in your home. Any items that you need to buy can be found in grocery, drug, arts and crafts, and/or teacher supply stores. Recycling can provide many of the items too. In addition, some projects require materials that are found in nature.

In Art for All Seasons the children's year unfolds, unifying art and nature with hands-on experiences that enrich their lives through creative growth.

Pages: 158
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Creative Kids: Simple Science Fun


arts and crafts projectsCreative Kids: Arts, Crafts, & More

Grade Level: Preschool - Third Grade
Price: $15.99
Product #: 1003200
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Using ideas and materials from a variety of sources, Arts, Crafts, & More is a complete resource book for parents and teachers. Easily-obtainable materials and easy-to-follow directions make the activities in this book ideal projects throughout the year.

This book is divided into nine sections. Each section contains a variety of activities, many of which are multipurpose. Materials, directions, and suggested activities are listed for each project.

Also included in Arts, Crafts, & More are suggestions for collecting, storing, and recycling materials, as well as recipes for homemade arts supplies. Children of all ages will enjoy hours of fun and active involvement as they create memorable art projects using materials you may have at one time considered discarding.

Pages: 160
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Creative Kids: Creative Crafts for Clever Kids
Creative Kids: Art for All Seasons
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teaching supplies - reading, artBuilding Literacy Skills Through Art

Grade Level: Preschool - First Grade
Price: $15.99
Product #: 1003377
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An exciting approach for developing literacy skills in young learners! Develop letter recognition, vocabulary, rhyming skills, story event recollection, math skills, and fine and gross motor coordination creating and using easy art projects.

The use of arts and crafts helps children build literacy skills in a fun, hands-on, relaxed environment.

Each activity includes:

  • An objective - Each project addresses a specific literacy objective.
  • Links to literacy - This section gives suggestions on how to achieve the objective stated and how to build literacy skills through the art project.
  • Materials - This section clearly outlines what is needed to complete each art activity.
  • Art project instructions - This section offers you step-by-step directions to easily complete the craft to be used in the Links to Literacy section. These steps are illustrated, when necessary, to clarify what needs to be done.

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Crafts for Christian Education/Bible Teaching Resource BookBible Crafts

Grade Level: Preschool - Third Grade
Price: $15.99
Product #: 1007101
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Quick and easy crafts teach children about God's promises, laws, and love. Create a sharing circle, a character garden, a "Jesus Cares" suncatcher, and more. Projects are perfect for Sunday School or Vacation Bible School.

Sunday school teachers, classroom teachers, and parents will find this craft book to be a valuable resource in teaching children about the Word of God and God's love.

The book is divided into four seasonal sections making finding a craft to relate to a specific holiday or timely Biblical topic much easier.

The craft projects have been developed with the goal of making them simple and easy to use. They are all paper projects that are quick and simple, with reproducible patterns included.

Enjoy watching children create fun, wonderful crafts as they better understand the Word of God and the love He has for each and every one of us.

Pages: 144
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