Lets Play With Our Food

A wonderful new dot-play adventure from the much-loved internationally bestselling creator of Press Hereand Mix it Up!.

A basketball asks to be taken outside to play.

It's okay to play with your food! Let your fruit and veggie exploration begin with Let's Play with Our Food: My Fruit and Veggie Coloring Book, featuring characters from Where Do Bananas Come From? A Book of Fruits and Where Does Broccoli Come From? A Book of Vegetables. Filled with 52 playful fruit and veggie characters just waiting to be colored! Discover new fruits and veggies while having fun; you don't have to be in the kitchen to learn about food. Now put on your Food Explorer hat, grab your crayons or colored pencils, and dig in! This coloring book features: 26 playful fruit characters with fun facts 26 playful vegetable characters with fun facts 4 Food Explorers to color and name 56 coloring pages in total on double-sided 50lb white paper Large print format for small hands to color, 8.5 x 11in You can even color the matte cover! Even picky eaters will love this fruit and veggie coloring book! Introduce new foods in a fun, pressure-free environment while expanding your imagination with coloring!

This is the way to break the junk food habit and bring children to willingly and joyfully eating healthy: See the joy and delight in the eyes of children as they are served meals they have helped in creating that actually look like characters that they know. Utilizing hunger to develop motor skills by arranging food in a creative and organized matter also develops self-sufficiency and confidence. The ingredients used in the Let's Play With Food recipes are easily obtained at local super and farmer's markets, including fresh seasonal produce that is naturally gluten, dairy, sugar and guilt free. In easy to eat servings of delicious foods that are void of empty calories and provide maximum health and energy Let's Play With Food teaches basic nutrition by color. The Let's Play With Food - Celebrate the Seasons how-to-guide breaks down each recipe for an adult (parent, baby sitter or care provider) to easily organize the preparation of the food to be made for and with children."

Playing with your baby is more than fun and games: it's the key to building a strong relationship with your infant and providing important early stimulation that promotes learning and development. Baby Love and Learn provides 100 games, activities, and exercises that parents can do with their baby to foster cognitive, motor, and language skills as well as creativity and relational skills. Baby Love and Learn shows parents how they can use daily caregiving routines such as feeding, diapering, dressing, bathing, and bedtime as opportunities for play, positive emotional attachment, and learning. The book also includes play ideas for each age and stage and for different developmental levels.

Let children experience the learning power of play! Let’s Play is a handbook full of child-led, open-ended learning adventures. The 39 fresh, fun, and budget-friendly activities (plus more than 225 play variations) are packed with learning that helps children develop important motor, cognitive, language, and social skills. These activity starters were all tested by a slew of early childhood professionals and approved by the children they work with. Building on the early learning principles presented in the author team’s first book together, Let Them Play: An Early Learning (Un)Curriculum, they also support your transition to a play-based, child-led (un)curriculum. Jeff A. Johnson has more than twenty years of early childhood experience as a former child care center director and current family child care business owner. He is a popular keynote speaker, trainer, and author of six books. Denita Dinger has been a child care provider for more than ten years and is a frequent speaker at early childhood conferences, focusing on the topics of hands-on and play-based learning. This is her second book.

"Based on the TV series 'Dora the explore' as seen on Nick Jr."--P. [4] of cover.

A playbook to build literacy for younger readers, including word recognition, listening and speaking skills, all shown with bright and engaging pictures.

Why do they rub food in their hair? Why do they want to hear the same book over and over? Why do they love being naked? Between the ages of one and three, children can be delightful, affectionate, intelligent explorers of their newfound world. They can also be holy terrors. Grounded in up-to-date research, The Secret Lives of Toddlers demystifies 52 common behaviors of toddlers, while helping parents appreciate the miraculous development of their children. An entertaining, reassuring guide to toddler behavior, this book shows parents how to get through their kids' toddlerhood with affection, humor, and authority. With explanations from pediatricians, child development experts, and behavioral psychologists, parents will learn to: - Understand the world from a child's point of view - Learn which bad behaviors need intervention and which can be ignored - Cultivate good manners and reward good behavior - Reduce their own frustration - Play, speak, read, and interact with their toddler in healthy ways

Grandparents, parents and children will all want to join in the fun of this wonderful collection of games and rhymes.