In typical Kathy Ross style, simple but clever projects bring cows and pigs and chickens and horses and goats and even the farmer himself to life. Young ones will get great satisfaction from being able to transform ordinary household items such as yogurt cups, paper towel tubes, or pipe cleaners into animal-based projects such as a Turkey Corsage, a Goosey Gander Pin, a Thimble Field Mouse, a Horse Magnet, or a Cow Tissue Dispenser. E-i-e-i-o!

Insects are everywhere - crawling in the grass, hiding under rocks, or flying through the air at 35 miles per hour. But even if insects make you squirm, they are a valuable part of our Earth. Some insects eat other insects that damage plants. Others light up summer nights. With this latest book in Kathy Ross's Crafts for Kids Who are Learning About series, you'll find out more about insects while making 22 low-cost or no-cost projects. So come discover a world filled with creeping cockroaches, buzzing bees, and fluttering butterflies!

A valuable, one-stop guide to collection development and finding ideal subject-specific activities and projects for children and teens. For busy librarians and educators, finding instructions for projects, activities, sports, and games that children and teens will find interesting is a constant challenge. This guide is a time-saving, one-stop resource for locating this type of information—one that also serves as a valuable collection development tool that identifies the best among thousands of choices, and can be used for program planning, reference and readers' advisory, and curriculum support. Build It, Make It, Do It, Play It! identifies hundreds of books that provide step-by-step instructions for creating arts and crafts, building objects, finding ways to help the disadvantaged, or engaging in other activities ranging from gardening to playing games and sports. Organized by broad subject areas—arts and crafts, recreation and sports (including indoor activities and games), and so forth—the entries are further logically organized by specific subject, ensuring quick and easy use.

Text and bird's-eye-view illustrations portray the many activities on a farm, from spring planting to a summer festival and the autumn harvest. Includes related activities.

Ten fun, creative projects provide students with a hands-on way to learn about animals. Accompanied by colorful images and patterns that are easy to reproduce using a copier or printer, accessible step-by-step directions instruct students how to make such unique crafts as a flying bird ornament, a giraffe statue out of aluminum foil, and a butterfly hand fan using inexpensive materials found at home or in the classroom. A Learn More section with current books and websites encourage further exploration into the animal kingdom.

Hands-on craft projects can make remembering the shape of each letter lots of fun and also help children associate a sound with each letter. In this book designed to supplement the teaching of writing the basic letter shapes, Kathy Ross draws on her thirty years experience as a preschool teacher and curriculum developer. She has designed an easy-to-make craft based on the shape of each letter of the alphabet, from an airplane made by folding the capital letter A, to a zinnia refrigerator magnet formed by eight letter Z's.

Learn about farm habitats with Super Simple Farm Projects! Kids will discover what plants and animals live on farms and read about farmland food chains. Then, they will learn how to create a barn owl nest, make a mini pig pen, and more. Each project has color photos and easy-to-follow instructions. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.