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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?

Printable Letter Books for Preschoolers

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more. 

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs. 

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition. 

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter. 

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters. 

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again. 

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like. 

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there. 

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]