"Offers a variety of exercises that will help your child practice scissor skills and other readiness basics, such as story order, counting, matching, and beginning sounds. The interesting activities with clear directions will provide hours of educational fun for your child"--Page 4 of cover

Preschoolers will develop important pre-writing fine-motor skills and hand-eye coordination through cutting and pasting activities, using That's Silly(TM) puzzles, matching, and more, all in an affordable, travel-friendly pad format. Being able to cut and paste is an important step toward school readiness, and Highlights infuses Fun with a Purpose® into this essential learning skill. Cutting and Pasting is a 64-page full-color pad that gives preschoolers plenty of practice with scissors through interactive puzzles, cutting lines and shapes, cutting out and assembling simple toys, and other activities that improve manual dexterity.

This preschool cutting and pasting learning pad for ages 3-5 takes the activities off the page and helps kids build the hand-eye coordination and fine-motor skills essential for school success. The fun scissor-and-glue activities include puzzles, card games, and board games, as well as pages to cut out and build into vehicles and characters for puppet shows. The ability to cut and paste is an important pre-writing benchmark, and Highlights puts Fun with a Purpose into this essential learning skill. Cut, Paste, and Play is a large, 176-page, full-color pad that gives preschoolers practice with scissor skills through more than 100 activities--including interactive puzzles, cutting lines and shapes, cutting out and assembling simple toys and games, and other activities that improve manual dexterity, attention to detail, and sequencing skills. Kids can cut out, paste, and play with characters and vehicles they build themselves, including an airplane-flying unicorn, a truck-driving penguin, and a bulldozer-driving puppy.

Big Skills for Little Hands(R): Cut and Paste for ages 3 and up provides essential practice for cutting and pasting. With 192 pages of fun activities, this workbook helps young learners build foundational skills by creating puppets, solving puzzles, and working with fun animal characters. --Current state standards have increased the academic demands on kindergarten students, making early learning more important than ever. Big Skills for Little Hands: Cut and Paste engages early learners in activities that will keep them entertained while strengthening fine motor skills. Designed to support early learning guidelines, this workbook features essential practice for cutting along lines and aligning shapes before pasting. --Give children a head start in their academic journey by encouraging early learning at home. The Big Skills for Little Hands series supports fine motor development and exposes children to essential early concepts like letters, numbers, colors, and shapes. With the help of this series, children will have fun cutting, tracing, pasting, counting, writing, and coloring their way to classroom readiness! Designed to help build confidence, the perforated pages allow children to proudly display their work upon completion! --For complete classroom readiness, be sure to look for other titles in this series: --*Big Skills for Little Hands: Trace and Draw --*Big Skills for Little Hands: Color and Fold --*Big Skills for Little Hands: Early Concepts

Over 200 activities encourage children to explore and understand their world through art experiences that emphasize the process of art, not the product. The first chapter introduces basic art activities appropriate for all children, while the subsequent chapters, which build on the basic activities in the first chapter, are divided by seasons. Activities are included for painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, and construction. Indexes organized by art medium and project name help teachers plan. 260 pages. - Benjamin Franklin Award - Early Childhood News Director's Award "Preschool Art" is a lifesaver . . . All the activities are easy, all are fun--the emphasis here is on the process, rather than specific results--and none require any elaborate materials . . . a real find.--"Sesame Street Parents," "Picks for Parents" ""Preschool Art" offers help to parents of preschoolers struggling to meet the challenge of their children's creative impulses. Prodigies aside, most kids this age aren't interested in the final product; they are into the doing of art . . . . There is no right or wrong way, only their way. Kohl understands. She explains how to make and use many kinds of art materials based on the concept that the process not the product, is important. From old standbys like play dough to new craft discoveries like liquid crayons and frozen balloons, she provides hundreds of ways to enjoy and explore the creative process."--"MetroParent," Milwaukee, Wisconsin "Kohl offers 250 projects complete with materials, processes and illustrated variations. She also adds practical hints that troubleshoot anticipated problems. The recipes are valuable well beyond the preschool years."--"SchoolArts" Other art books by MaryAnn Kohl: "The Big Messy Art Book" (Gryphon House), 0-87659-206-X "Cooking Art" (Gryphon House), 0-87659-184-5 "Global Art" (Gryphon House), 0-87659-190-X

Sit! Stay! Be Creative! It's tough to be creative on command. And with deadlines looming, you can't wait for inspiration to strike. That's where Idea Index comes in. Don't let the small size fool you. Inside you'll discover thousands of big ideas for graphic effects and type treatmnts — via hundreds of prompts designed to stimulate, quicken and expand your creative thinking. Use Idea Index to brainstorm ideas, to unclog your mind, and to explore different looks and approaches. The Idea Index — instant creative genius when you need it most!