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Mitchell Resources - Activity Books

38 Ways to Entertain your Grandparents - by Dette Hunter

Sarah doesn't want her grandparents to get bored during their visit, so she and her brother and sister make sure they are always entertained with fun games, creative crafts, delicious food, and lots more!  This unique storybook contains -- you guessed it! -- 38 different fun-filled activities for children and adults to share. When the characters in the story do something really fun that you'd like to try, simple step-by-step instructions and recipes are right there, and all you need are easy-to-find, around-the-house objects.

50 Fabulous Parties for Kids - by Linda Hetzer

These 50 fabulous party themes are arranged by both occasion and age group, and are wonderfully imaginative but easy to accomplish!

Active Learning for Infants - by Cryer, Harms & Bourland

This resource book addresses activities to encourage infant development. It discusses activities for listening, for physical development, for creativity, and for learning from the world.  Beginning with a bit of theory, this book is primarily a collection of activities.

Baby and Toddler Learning Fun: 50 interactive and developmental activities to enjoy with your child - by Sally Goldberg

This book provides many activities that you can do at home with your child to encourage their development and learning. It focuses on teaching with toys, and provides many ideas for making your own toys to teach specific concepts.

Beads: Kids Can Easy Crafts:  - by Judy Ann Sadler

This book provides instructions for easy bead activities that children can make. (pre / school)

(The) Best Holiday Crafts Ever! - by Kathy Ross

This book provides instructions for crafts for 8 different holidays. These crafts can easily be made with common household items, by children from preschool to school age. (pre/ school)

Brain Gym - by Paul & Gail Dennison

Activities to enhance brain development for special needs children.

Crafty Ideas from Nature - by Myrna Daitz & Shirley Williams

This book provides examples of the many crafts that you can do using objects from our natural environment.  (preschool/ school-age)

Crafty Ideas for Parties - by Myrna Daitz

From invitations, decorations, recipes and games to play, this book has many great party ideas.  (pres /school)

Favourite Games and Variations: Marbles, Hopscotch and Jacks  - by John Dinneen

This book explains favourite games and various ways to play them. (school age)

Games Babies Play - by Vicki Lansky

Readers will find more than 250 fun-filled games to help babies explore their world and learn vital developmental skills. All activities are organized by age and explain exactly what children will learn. The games in this essential book will give both teacher and baby hours of enjoyment.

Games to Play with Babies  - by Jackie Silberg

This is the third edition of one of the most trusted and popular books on infant development.  This book shows you how to build important developmental skills while enjoying time with your baby.  You can use these activities every day to nurture and stimulate self-confidence, coordination, social skills and more!

Grandma & Grandpa’s Big Book of Fun: Great things to make and do with grandkids - by Jean Luttrell

This book provides more than 200 ideas of indoor and outdoor games and things to make with your grandkids. It also includes activities you can do together and ideas for celebrating special days. (pre / school)

I Saw a Purple Cow and 100 other recipes for learning - by Cole, Haas, Bushnell and Weinberger

The ideas in this book are divided by topic: pretend play, creative play, reading, music, and more.  The legend points out which activities are appropriate for traveling, for children sick in bed, and for math and reading readiness. (pres/ school)

It's Wiggle Time - by Marilee Whiting Woodfield

Incorporate movement and music into the early childhood curriculum with such activities that encourage self-expression, sequencing, auditory, discrimination and balance.  

Kids Cooking, A Very Slightly Messy Manual - by Klutz Press

Sixty-five examples of the world's finest kid-do-able cuisine.  Everything from Frozen Bananoids to Soap Bubbles Supreme with full-colour illustrations.  Comes complete with a full set of colour coded measuring spoons. 

Kitchen Table Play & Learn: Activities and lessons for building your preschooler's vital developmental skills - Tara Copley & Andrea Custer

Acknowledging that you are your child's first teacher, this book provides many activities that you can do at home to help develop important skills in your child. Based on themes, it provides a list of materials (often household items) and instructions for each of the activities.

Let’s Celebrate: Canada’s special days - by Caroline Perry (6 copies)

This book is a year-long calendar of Canadian celebrations. You’ll learn more about holidays like Christmas, Halloween, Chanukah and more. It also contains a lot of games, crafts, science experiments and poems and riddles that go with each celebration.

Let’s Play: Traditional Games of Childhood - by Dusan Petricic & Camilla Gryski (5 copies)

This is a good book to keep for family time and when friends and relatives drop by.  Traditional games are remembered such as hide and seek, leapfrog, hopscotch, jumping ropes, jackstones, marbles and hand shadows.  Instructions and the history of the games are shared in this book of fun and activities.

Make it with Boxes - by Joan Irvine

This book has many ideas around the theme of boxes. It begins with making your own boxes, and continues with crafts, games and costumes you can make with boxes. (pre/ school) (2 copies)

Make Toys for Infants and Toddlers - by Linda G. Miller

This series is a teachers dream; create unique, exciting toys and props to help children learn in appropriate ways and all with everyday items around the house.

My First Activity Book - by Angela Wilkes

A great book containing 15 projects children can make out of simple materials.  This activity book is illustrated with photographs that clearly demonstrate how to make the finished product.  Projects include making masks and puppets, lanterns, Christmas decorations, pottery and much more.

My First Baking Book - by Rena Coyle

Here are 50 kid-tested recipes that are clearly written and easy to bake for children six and up.  All are accompanied by gleefully drawn, step-by-step illustrations and liberally sprinkled with tidbits of food facts.  Illustrations throughout with 16 pages of full color. 

My First Cookbook - by Angela Wilkes

This excellently crafted, large-format cookbook features clear pictures showing how to make cookies, breads, pizza, desserts and snacks.

My First Nature Book- by Angela Wilkes

Containing practical indoor and outdoor activities to entertain children, this how-to book covers a range of activities from gathering and germinating seeds to taking casts of animal footprints and more...........

(The) Out-of-Sync Child has Fun: Activities for kids with sensory integration dysfunction - by Carol Stock Kranowitz

This book provides many activities that will help children with sensory integration dysfunctions. These activities can be done at home, at school and in the community. The first chapter discusses what sensory integration is and the symptoms of “out-of-sync” children. The activity ideas are great for all children, but particularly good to help children with sensory integration dysfunction.

Puppets - by Imogene Forte

Easy to make puppets

Puzzle & Decorder Games - Holland/Kubota

Self-Esteem Games - by Barbara Sher

A great source of 300 activities that help your child feel good about who they are! These games are appropriate for children of many ages; games appropriate for children under age 5 are identified too. They are listed in the following categories: being unique, getting to know me and sharing who I am. Many great ideas for all children.

Sewing: Kids Can Easy Crafts- by Judy Ann Sadler

This book provides numerous simple beginner sewing projects. (school age)

Surviving your Preschooler - by Trish Kuffner

This book contains 365 activities for 3-6 year olds using things found around the home. It shows parents and childcare providers how to stimulate a child’s natural curiosity about our world with reading, math and science activities. It also shows how to encourage a child’s growth in all areas of development, with ideas for dance, drama and outdoor play.

Surviving your Toddler - by Trish Kuffner

365 creative games and activities to help you enjoy the unique challenges of life with a one-to-three-year-old. This book shows parents and childcare providers how to organize a home to meet the needs of the kids. It also shows how to prevent boredom, encourage physical, mental and emotional growth and stimulate the child’s natural curiosity. It helps parents with simple projects for holidays and special occasions and it shows how to choose the best books and toys for toddlers.

Toddler Play: 100 fun-filled activities to maximize your toddler’s potential - by Dr. Wendi Masi

Children are naturally ready to learn, and parents are eager to teach them. Toddler Play  was created specifically to help parents teach their children through age-appropriate play that is fun and relaxed. Based on the content of the successful Gymboree's Play & Music Programs, this book is a "recipe book" of games, finger rhymes, nursery songs, and craft exercises that parents can use to help their children develop physical, cognitive, emotional, and social skills. Filled with fabulous color and fun photos, the book is structured chronologically to match key stages in a child's physical and intellectual development. Written with busy parents in mind, the book contains many quick-reference features, such as a skills checklist, cross-referencing of similar activities, and an index listing games by type of activity, such as art, ball games, discovery games, music and movement exploration, water play, etc. With over 100 activities any toddler will enjoy,  quality playtime is just a page away.

Triangles: Shapes in Math, Science and Nature - by Catherine Sheldrick Ross

This book talks about different kinds of triangles, and includes puzzles, games and activities about triangles.

Unifix-one step at a time - by Libby Hollombe

Using plastic interlocking "Unifix" cubes you can make all sorts of things

Wiggles sing along song book - by Wiggles Party Ltd

This shake, wiggle and roll pop-up interactive song book will have you dancing with the Wiggles in no time

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