Shows a variety of innovative art activities to teach young children including hair dryer painting, rope painting, fly swatter painting, and more.

Forget perfection—grab your supplies and get messy with the easy techniques and projects for creating with watercolor, acrylic, markers, inks, and more in Get Messy Art. Play, experiment, and explore with zero judgment, zero pressure, and all the fun.

Young readers will join Zara, a clever, responsible, and sometimes anxious seven-year-old girl, in learning a fun and simple breathing exercise to help them mindfully manage their big messy emotions and find peace and calm in any situation. Like a lot of kids her age, Zara sometimes struggles with managing her emotions when confronted with stressful situations. Written by a mother-of-five and celebrated meditation guide Rebekah Borucki, Zara's Big Messy Day will help your child deal with everyday stress in simple but impactful way. Guided by Zara’s mother, both Zara and the reader will learn a kid-friendly breathing technique—a short visualization meditation—that will help them find peace and calm in any moment. And the best part: they'll learn to do it on their own after reading the book just one time! Zara’s Big Messy Day is used by teachers, guidance counselors, and social workers in elementary school cirriculum nationwide to teach students mindfulness and self-regulation. Get free gifts: You'll also get free access to downloadable coloring pages, an exclusive guided meditation for kids, and more! Just use the website link found inside the book to download your exclusive gifts. Praise for Zara's Big Messy Day: “Zara beautifully offers mindfulness for kids and adults alike.” — Rachel Ricketts, activist and author of Do Better “Friends, I cannot recommend these books enough. Get Zara for you, your kids, your nieces, your nephews... They’re just so beatitful!” — Jennifer Pastiloff, author of the National Bestseller, On Being Human

With the activities in Preschool Art, Foundation Stage children will be able to explore, discover and create using innovative, open-ended ideas. There are no adult-made samples to copy. The book contains over 200 activities ranging from drawing, painting and sculpture to craft, collage and construction. The easy-to-use logos at the top of each page and comprehensive indexes make it easy to choose the ideal activity to suit your needs. Here are just a few of the great ideas: Fried paper plates; No-cook playdough; Branch weaving; Sandpaper prints; Eggshell mosaics; Salty paint shakes; Confetti explosion; Mystery paints; Stained glass biscuits; Painted foil sculptures; Finger puppets; and Crayon-chalk transfers. This book will be an invaluable resource for all early years settings from preschools and day centres to reception classes and nurseries.

Parenting can be such an overwhelming job that it’s easy to lose track of where you stand on some of the more controversial subjects at the playground (What if my kid likes to rough house—isn’t this ok as long as no one gets hurt? And what if my kid just doesn’t feel like sharing?). In this inspiring and enlightening book, Heather Shumaker describes her quest to nail down “the rules” to raising smart, sensitive, and self-sufficient kids. Drawing on her own experiences as the mother of two small children, as well as on the work of child psychologists, pediatricians, educators and so on, in this book Shumaker gets to the heart of the matter on a host of important questions. Hint: many of the rules aren’t what you think they are! The “rules” in this book focus on the toddler and preschool years—an important time for laying the foundation for competent and compassionate older kids and then adults. Here are a few of the rules: • It’s OK if it’s not hurting people or property • Bombs, guns and bad guys allowed. • Boys can wear tutus. • Pictures don’t have to be pretty. • Paint off the paper! • Sex ed starts in preschool • Kids don’t have to say “Sorry.” • Love your kid’s lies. IT’S OK NOT TO SHARE is an essential resource for any parent hoping to avoid PLAYDATEGATE (i.e. your child’s behavior in a social interaction with another child clearly doesn’t meet with another parent’s approval)!

Sometimes life can be messy. But God is more than capable of creating a beautiful masterpiece out of our messes. In Messy Art, Full Heart, artist and author Elaine Davis leads us through a four-week Bible journaling study, using creative praise to face life's challenges. Elaine opens up about her real-life struggles with fear, anxiety, infertility, mental health, body image, parenting, comparison, and more, assuring us that we're not alone in our private battles. With authenticity and compassion, she encourages readers to use Bible journaling to process right where they are. As Elaine puts it, "God is right there with you in the paint and paste and papers just as much as He's with you in the pew." Surrender yourself wholly to our Father and use your creative passion to explore each topic in this revolutionary study!

All sleepers will adore Buglette—a tidy little bug by day, a messy little sleeper at night. That's when she tosses and turns and kicks and flips while she dreams of doing BIG things like building mountains and kicking balls over the moon. Her quirky habit annoys her family—after all, what if her messy sleeping wakes the scary crow?—until her big dreams help her to save the day. Whimsical watercolor illustrations of a ladybug family and an endearing story about being different, dreaming big, and learning to be brave will appeal to children with wild imaginations—messy sleepers or not.