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Stratford Resources – Activity Books

10-Minute Life Lessons for Kids - Jamie Miller

This easy to read book gives parents the ability to teach the powerful principles of honesty, trust, generosity, love, and other values. The activities in this book will not only create cozy and enjoyable moments of family togetherness, they will have a lasting impact on your growing child.

38 Ways to Entertain your Grandparents -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.

125 Brain Games for Toddlers And Twos: Simple games to promote early brain development - Jackie Silberg

This book is a fun-filled collection of ways to lay the groundwork for your child’s future.  Each game is accompanied by a description of how the activity promotes brain power in your 12-36 month old child. 

500 Five Minute Games: Quick and Easy Activities for 3-6 year olds

This book is jam packed with games, songs, and fun ideas perfectly suited for 3-6 year olds.  It contains quick and easy ideas, organized by theme, and designed to capture the energetic enthusiasm for learning of young children.

501 Fun-to-Make Family Crafts – Better Homes and Gardens

The only thing better than making things is making memories.  No matter what the season, enjoy gathering together as a family to express your creativity. Hundreds of fantastic projects in this book will spark imaginations and provide hours of fun and conversation throughout the year.

Baby Days: Activities, ideas, and games for enjoying daily life with a child under three - Barbara Rowley

Parents- both new and experienced – need Baby Days, the ultimate easy-to-use reference book for those looking for ways to entertain, educate, and enjoy a young child – and themselves – during the course of an average day.

Baby Play – 100 Fun-filled Activities – Dr. Wendy Masi & Dr. Ron Leiderman

This book was designed to help parents  engage their infant in activities that will encourage developmental skills.  From the first month through the twelth, Baby Play offers doctor approved, age appropriate activities that stimulate discovery, begin communication and nurture parental bonding. 

Brain Gym (Manual and Teacher's Edition) - Paul and Gail Dennison - 2 copies

Brain gym is a series of simple and enjoyable movements that are used to enhance children's experience of whole brain learning.  These activities make all types of learning easier, and are especially effective with academic skills.

Calm Down & Play! – Activities to Help Impulsive Children – Loretta Oleck Berger

This book is filled with fun and effective activities that will help children calm down and control their impulses.  It will help them to learn to focus, concentrate, and organize their thoughts. 

(The) Complete Book of Rhymes, Songs, Fingerplays and Chants – Jackie Silberg & Pam Schiller

This book contains 700 selections for children  3-6 years of age dealing with rhythm, repetition, rhyme and structural sequence.  These activities build a strong foundation in skills such as listening, imagination, co-ordination and spatial and body awareness.

Come on, Dad! – 75 Things for Fathers & Sons to do Together

A special book written just for you and your son bursting with all types of fun-filled activities for you to share together.  

Family Travel and Resorts – Pamela Lanier

This guide helps you plan the perfect family vacation.  It contains complete lists for packing, health and safety considerations, and listings for hundreds of tourist resources.  You will obtain all the necessary information about facilities, prices, pets, children, amenities, and credit cards.   

Games Babies Play - Jackie Silberg

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 - 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, and social skills.

Games to Play with Toddlers – Jackie Silberg

This indispensable book helps you develop the areas most important for the growth of your 12-24 months old.  Toddlers will learn essential skills that include balance, coordination, problem solving and fine motor skills.  

I Can’t Sing Book: for grown-ups who can’t carry a tune in a paper bag but want to do music with young children - Jackie Silberg

Directed towards parents, elementary teachers and child care providers, this book  breaks down the development of musical skills into easy to understand goals, and provides many age appropriate ideas for reaching those goals.

(The) Idea Factory – Ellison Workshop 11 – Ellison

This video is like an entire warehouse filled with ideas to enhance creativity with the Ellison die and letter machine

I Love You Rituals - Becky A. Bailey, PH.D.

This book offers more than seventy delightful rhymes and games that send the message of unconditional love and enhance children’s social and emotional development, and school success.  These positive nursery rhymes, interactive finger plays, soothing games, and physical activities can be played with children from infancy through age eight.  In only minutes a day, these powerful rituals prime a child’s brain for learning,  help him cope with change, enhance attention, cooperation, and self-esteem as well as helping busy families stay close. Easy to learn and especially effective in stressful situations, I Love You Rituals gives parents, grandparents, caregivers, and teachers inspiring tools to help children thrive.

Kids and Grandparents: An Activity Book - Ann Love, John Drake

Designed to create a meaningful bond between children and their grandparents, this activity book brings hours of pleasure for both parties!  This book shows many activities dealing with crafts, projects and recipes. Enjoy the activities together or separately, but have the memories forever.

Jumbo Book of Easy Crafts - Judy Ann Sadler

With over 175 great projects, the crafting fun is almost endless! There are loads of ideas for zany animals, silly games, great gifts, nature crafts and more. Step-by-step instructions and easy designs mean even the littlest crafters can have fun creating. The unique materials list is set up alphabetically to help guide you through projects based on items you can find around the house - from aluminium foil and buttons to wire and yarn!

Let’s Celebrate: Canada’s Special Days - Caroline Parry (2 copies)

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

Let’s Play –Traditional games of childhood – Dusan Petricic

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.  You will find instructions for all of these games, as well as a bit about the history.   

Make it with Boxes – Joan Irvine

This book is filled with easy-to-follow instructions and diagrams for making creative boxes, costumes, games and props.

Mudworks – MaryAnn Kohl

There is no right or wrong way for these projects to turn out.  Exploration and experimentation in sculpture, design and play is encouraged for all ages.

Nature’s Playground – Fiona Danks

A great book filled with activities, crafts and games to encourage children to get outdoors.

Parents Play And Learn: More than 300 kid-pleasing, skill-building, entertaining activities from birth to age 8 - Parents’ magazine - Marge Kennedy & Karen White

With this book you can entertain your child for hours. These activities are perfect indoors and out, on rainy days and sunny weekends. The book’s reader-friendly format lists the required materials, preparation time, and developmental skills that your child will learn.

Parties Kids Love – Mike Artell & Pam Schiller

This book, geared towards 3-6 year olds, is filled with great ideas for birthdays, holidays or just for fun.  For each party, you’ll find ideas for invitations, songs, stories, plays, menus, recipes, theme-oriented gifts for your guests, decorations, educational information related to the party and a list of related children’s books.  Some sample party ideas include Teddy Bear Picnic, Mad Hatter Party, Best Buddies Party, and  Junior Detective Party.

Raising Curious Kids – Nancy Sokol Green

The book offers 100 unique activities using common household items to prompt children ages three to eight to experiment, to create, and to make decisions. In addition, the book offers more than 600 original thought provoking questions designed for parents to ask their children about almost every occasion that might happen in their lives.

Self Esteem Games – Barbara Sher

This book shows children how wonderful it can be to be themselves – emotionally, socially, physically and intellectually. By sharing some of these 300 upbeat thoughtful activities with your children, you can enforce their positive feelings and provide a lasting foundation for learning.

Surviving Your Toddler - Trish Kuffner  (2 copies)

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 children'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.

Surviving your Preschooler – 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.

Toddler’s Busy Book:  365 Creative Games and Activities to Keep your 1 ½ - to 3- year-old busy - Trish Kuffner 

For each day of the year, this book suggests creative games and activities to occupy children aged 1 1/2 years to 3 years. Activities include arts and crafts, fun food ideas, color and shape matching, nursery songs, and making "instruments" out of household scraps. The book is sprinkled with humorous and insightful quotes on life with young children.

Toddler Play  - by Dr. Wendy S. Masi

100 fun-filled activities to maximize your toddlers potentia

Wow! I’m Reading! Fun Activities to Make Reading Happen - Jill Frankel Hauser, Stan Jaskiel (Illustrator)

This resource is packed with step-by-step instructions for activities designed to encourage and promote literacy. An introductory message for adults provides insight into the importance of letter recognition, phonetics, and writing in the reading process. The reading-readiness activities are simple enough for youngsters to follow on their own, but also present opportunities that will encourage interaction between adult and child.

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