Guide to Childcraft

The Preschooler: 3 to 5 years

At about 3, youngsters enter the pre­school years— truly formative years, marked by intellectual growth, rapidly developing motor skills, much greater social maturity, and emotional richness. Most…

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Make and Do

Gooney bird

Materials 1. Make some papier-mache pulp (see papier-mache pulp, page 89). You will use the pulp in step 3. 2. To make the gooney bird’s body, blow up a balloon and tie the neck tightly….

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Once Upon a Time

Snowy Morning

by Lilian Moore Wake gently this morning to a different day. Listen. There is no bray of buses, no brake growls, no siren howls and no horns blow. There is only the silence of a city hushed by…

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