Things to Do (Child's First Library of Learning)

By Time-Life Books

Instructions for making such challenging projects as seashell mobiles, peanut puppets, paper airplanes, and vegetable animals, presented in a question and answer format. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809448971
• ISBN13: 9780809448975
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Time Life Education
• Length: 87 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.8" x 0.5" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 3 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4

Customer Reviews

Good active learning exercises for kids

This series is a good resource for kids. This volume, "Things to Do," is a little treasure, showing kids how to do things. What kid wouldn't be interested in knowing how to make a paper airplane? Pages 28-29 outline how to make a paper airplane (I did this as a kid and recall showing my son how to make one when he was in Cub Scouts). The discussion shows how to make such planes three different ways. None is the way I would show to make one! As with all entries, there is a small section, "To the parent," that shows parents how they can interact with their kids on any particular issue. Then there is "Can you do any magic tricks"? The two pages devoted to that (pages 48-49) show kids how to do some simply magic tricks. Children who can make this work would feel pretty cool! What about making whistles? Pages 62-63 explore that, using a variety of vehicles, such as an acorn, a leaf, a clam shell, and paper. All in all, a nice entry in this series. Because it focuses on how to do things, this could be a real tool for parents to show their children how the world works and how to do things.