Making learning a hands-on experience, Do-It-Yourself Early Learning shows home child care providers how to find and use many of the inexpensive—and often overlooked—building, home-repair, and construction materials available at local hardware stores and home centers to create fun activities and toys that promote play, exploration, and discovery. This innovative guide takes teachers on a journey through the aisles of the local home center to help them find creative ways to teach young children to build, interact, and learn from a wide variety of materials—from plumbing and electrical supplies to paints and hardware items.

Jeff A. Johnson shows how childcare providers can create inexpensive toys and games from household items.

The Child Care Alphabet Book of Early Learning is the first in a series of ABC books examining what goes on in quality child care programs. This book looks at the learning that takes place while children are in care. It is fun for children and helps educate parents about what to look for in a quality early care and education program.

"Includes over 150 reproducible activities."

This text explores the use of materials for learning within a social context. Different forms of stuff such as blocks, beads, climbing frames, dolls and found materials are used to explore and illustrate the crucial role of people in unlocking the possibilities of materials as tools of all-round development in early childhood.

Presents a variety of art projects and related activities grouped around such themes as colors, shapes, numbers, and letters.

39 teacher-tested, child-approved play-based adventures that are packed with endless learning opportunities.

Help your child prepare for school using this activitiy book to explore key early learning subjects including the alphabet, numbers, colors, shapes, and patterns.

Children can pluck an elastic band to learn about the vibrations that create music, or they can bake a cake to learn measurement and reading skills. Everyday Early Learning provides a myriad of ways to use everyday items for great early learning opportunities. For each activity, the book lists an age range, materials, step-by-step instructions, and possible variations. All are inexpensive and allow children to learn without much adult involvement. These projects will help children develop skills in language and literacy, math and logical thinking, science and problem-solving, and art and creative representation, as well as social and physical skills.