Do-It-Yourself Early Learning: Easy and Fun Activities and Toys from Everyday Home Center Materials

by Jeff A. Johnson, Tasha A. Johnson

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.

200 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2006

Reviews

[Mandy]

45 Spiderweb tape: run strips of tape across a doorway at varying angles, stick small manipulatives to it

58 matching bolts, washers & nuts

64 sink the cork: screw hooks into corks and float in water. Add washer to hooks to make them sink.

Terrible Twine Tangle: weave twine all around a room

pegboards & sewing cards

Flexible electrical conduit

make roads with masking tape

masking paper (comes in rolls at home store)

184 pipe construction set

186 fancy flutter streamers

192 hinge and latch board

208 light box

[Leslie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am always going back to this series to find new idea that are cheap to add life to my child care program