Cut, Paste, and Create Pets


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Puppies, kittens and paper animal crafts — an adorable, winning combo for creative kids ages 3 and up! This hands-on activity book includes more than 40 pet-themed crafts, games, puzzles and more fun for pet lovers. It also includes over 60 colorful stickers kids will love using to complete puzzles and decorate craft projects. Create a wearable puppy mask, play a kitty-matching memory game, build a 3D pet house and more. Kids can enjoy their creations for hours on end and share them with friends. Tear-out pages make it easy and comfortable for little hands to remove, cut, paste and share. Plus, there are 8 cardstock pages for even sturdier crafts and wearables. Cutting along lines, gripping cutout pieces of paper and placing paper to complete activities will help kids sharpen their fine motor control, build hand-eye coordination and hone more essential school skills. These puzzles and games aren’t only entertaining, they’re expertly developed to help improve kids’ visual perception, vocabulary and concentration skills. For over 75 years, Highlights has inspired children to become Curious, Creative, Caring and Confident individuals. With products that encourage thinking, creativity and self-expression, Highlights helps kids build essential skills, all while having fun.




Animals


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Get ready to have lots of fingerprinting fun with this inky art activity book! With simple step-by-step instructions, and an inkpad with seven bright paint colors, discover how to create lots of adorable animal pictures by using fingerprints. Plus, there are are four sheets of stickers for extra activity fun! From farm animals, wild animals, pets, and baby animals, there are lots of cute animal pictures to complete for hours of creative inky fun!




Cut and Paste: Science


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Each book in this series provides a variety of motivating, interactive activities to help young students master concepts and content. The "cut and paste" format allows students to try a variety of possibilities before gluing down their final answers.




Cut and Paste Math


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Each book in this series provides a variety of motivating, interactive activities to help young students master concepts and content. The "cut and paste" format allows students to try a variety of possibilities before gluing down their final answers.




Color, Cut, Create Play Sets: Dinosaur World


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Unleash droves of dinosaurs, paper toys, props, and playsets from just one book. Let your imagination go wild! Merrill Rainey's Color, Cut, Create Play Sets: Dinosaur World is three activity books in one: color your dinosaur, cut out and construct it into your paper toy, and create imaginative stories, dioramas, and more! All you need is scissors, markers, and glue. No fussy instructions or delicate designs that crumble at the slightest touch. These are paper toy t-rexs, raptors, brontos, volcanoes, hidden waterfalls, and more that kids are actually meant to play with. It's paper engineering made easy! With over 75 paper toys, props, and playsets included, kids will happily color, build, and play for hours!




Tissue Morphogenesis


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Literature-Based Teaching in the Content Areas


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Grounded in theory and best-practices research, this practical text provides teachers with 40 strategies for using fiction and non-fiction trade books to teach in five key content areas: language arts and reading, social studies, mathematics, science, and the arts. Each strategy provides everything a teacher needs to get started: a classroom example that models the strategy, a research-based rationale, relevant content standards, suggested books, reader-response questions and prompts, assessment ideas, examples of how to adapt the strategy for different grade levels (K–2, 3–5, and 6–8), and ideas for differentiating instruction for English language learners and struggling students. Throughout the book, student work samples and classroom vignettes bring the content to life.




62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer


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Computer hacking takes on a whole new meaning when you're going at it with a screwdriver and hammer: announcing the most wildly inventive, eco-friendly craft book on repurposing everyday objects since Generation T. Except in this case the raw material isn't a T-shirt, but the stuff we all have lying around and have no idea what to do with, or even how to get rid of properly—your old cell phone, a broken printer, irredeemable iPod, busted digital camera, mysterious thatches of cables and wires, orphaned keyboards, and of course, those dead PCs and laptops. Created by a Parsons design graduate who’s obsessed with navigating the intersection of art and technology, here are 62 ingenious projects that are irresistibly geek-chic. An iMac Terrarium—how cool is that? A laptop Digital Photo Frame. The impressively green Scanner Compost Bin. Plus a power strip Bird Feeder, Walkman Soap Dish, My First Squiggle Bot, Qwerty Hair Tie, Flat-screen Ant Farm. Each project has complete, step-by-step instructions, is rated by difficulty—in a thorough first chapter the author covers all the tools and skills needed to take apart electronics safely—and is arranged by use, from stuff for the house, to fashion, toys, arts and crafts, items for pets, and more.




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Nonprofit Management 101


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A comprehensive handbook for leading a successful nonprofit This handbook can educate and empower a whole generation of nonprofit leaders and professionals by bringing together top experts in the field to share their knowledge and wisdom gained through experience. This book provides nonprofit professionals with the conceptual frameworks, practical knowledge, and concise guidance needed to succeed in the social sector. Designed as a handbook, the book is filled with sage advice and insights from a variety of trusted experts that can help nonprofit professionals prepare to achieve their organizational and personal goals, develop a better understanding of what they need to do to lead, support, and grow an effective organization. Addresses a wealth of topics including fundraising, Managing Technology, Marketing, Finances, Advocacy, Working with Boards Contributors are noted nonprofit experts who define the core capabilities needed to manage a successful nonprofit Author is the former Executive Director of Craigslist Foundation This important resource offers professionals key insights that will have a direct impact on improving their daily work.