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Book Review – By Little Hands

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by little hands – Written By Elyse Rosati

ISBN-10: 1425186025 RRP $23.95

This wonderful little book was sent to me for review by Elyse as I have a 2 year old girl that loves to craft.

This book is designed to inspire parents and caregivers with pre-schooler projects that are perfect for gift giving.

These 26 projects will not only give you projects to complete but inspire you to create your own variations as your 2 1/2 to 5 yearold picks up the skills of gluing, pressing, painting and more.

With Christmas fast approaching this is the perfect book for anyone who wants their children to give handmade presents this holiday season.

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Comments

  1. I love the idea of a book for ‘little hands.’ I’m a great-grandmother & would love to do crafts again with my greatgrandchildren & grand nieces & grand nephews.

    Fran

  2. I’m a grandmother and love to encourage all tiny hands to discover the thrills of creating their own delightful crafts. There’s nothing like the joys of glue and paint! I would enjoy sharing these projects ‘By Little Hands’ very much.

  3. I would love to get my daughter into crafting! Then she would be a 4th generation crafter, I think it is necessary to craft in my family.

  5. I have a super crafty grand daughter and we do fine… but her mother could use some craft guidance with her ) and hopefully her younger brother shortly!). Would love to win this for her!

  8. Wonderful book. I have 3 granddaughers and a grandson that I’m encouraging to like crafts.

    Billie

  9. Always looking for ways to encourage creativity in the kids. This book looks delightful, and make a very nice addition to my craft book collection.

Have you read?

Learning Numbers for Preschoolers

Learning numbers actually involves a few different skills, from recognizing the shape of the number and knowing the word that goes with it to understanding one to one correspondence for counting and what order the numbers go in. 

A lot of this is learned best through play and activities that get kids counting and tracing and otherwise interacting with numbers. These activities can help. 

I specifically mentioned tracing above because of these number formation rhymes cards from Teaching Mama, which can be used in lots of ways to practice making the shapes of the numbers, including tracing, lining up items on the number shapes (and counting them!), using playdough to shape the numbers and so on. Each number has a little rhyme to help you remember how to make it, which is cute. 

And speaking of playdough, you can find lots of playdough number mats with different themes for kids to use as they learn about numbers. Preschool Play and Learn, for example, has these cute apple themed ones that also teach one to one correspondence as you learn the numbers and count to 10. 

Or use these tree-themed ones from Live Over Cs to form the numbers, count out items on a ten frame and place the correct number of items in the tree to match the number (do this with playdough, little buttons or whatever manipulatives you have on hand). Your little builders will also love these Duplo number mats from Life Over Cs, which allow you to shape the number out of blocks and count out the number of blocks that corresponds to each number.

I also love these mats from The Savvy Sparrow that include the number and the word you can trace with playdough or marker, showing how to count the number on your fingers, a tens frame and a number line.

Finger plays and counting songs are lots of fun for little ones, too, and Childhood 101 has a great collection of songs and rhymes having to do with numbers (as well as printable song cards you can use with them. 

This cardboard roll number chain form Hands On As We Grow would be a fun addition to singing number songs or to use in other play and counting games. And we all love something easy to make with stuff we already have. 

Older kids who already know the order of numbers can also use these connect the dot number printables from Fun Learning for Kids. Or use the shapes for playdough mats or to practice tracing even for kids who don’t know all the numbers in order yet.