Preschooler's Busy Book: 365 Creative Games & Activities To Occupy 3-6 Year Olds

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365 FUN, CREATIVE ACTIVITIES TO STIMULATE YOUR PRESCHOOLER EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

This book contains 365 activities (one for each day of the year) for three- to six-year-olds using things found around the home. It shows parents and day-care providers how to:

Save money by making your own paints, playdough, craft clays, glue, paste, and other arts and crafts supplies.
Prevent boredom during even the longest stretches of indoor weather with ideas for indoor play, kitchen activities, and arts and crafts projects.
Stimulate a child's natural curiosity with fun reading, math, and science activities.
Encourage a child's physical, mental, and emotional growth with ideas for music, dance, drama, and outdoor play.
Celebrate holidays and other occasions with special projects and activities.
Keep children occupied during long trips or cross-town errands.

The Preschooler's Busy Book is written with warmth and sprinkled with humor and insight. It should be required reading for anyone raising or teaching preschool-age children.

Customer Reviews:

LOVE this book.......2007-09-26

This book was a sanity saver for a mom with 3 year old twins. How neat to have a resource to turn to on rainy days, snowed in days or days when things are going chaotic. This book is full of all kinds of activities and suggestions on how to occupy your little ones. I love it!! The activities are so easy to do and they are so creative. There are recipes, games and instructions to make homemade toys. These are just a few of the many materials covered. I recommend this book for anyone who has young children!

Fabulous Idea Book.......2007-06-11

I bought this book for my husband and I to come up with simple activities for our 3 1/2 year old. We have tried several activities and my daughter loves them. They are simple, use common, everyday household stuff and are inexpensive to do. It is a great basic activity book.

it was okay.......2007-05-30

there are better ones out there to spend your money on.It did get here on time and in conditon.

great ideas for preschool aged kids.......2007-02-20

this is a great idea book...some repetition and basic ideas...but, sometimes you just need a simple project and you and your kids can make it your own.

preschooler's busy book.......2006-08-30

This is a great book. I have a busy 5 year old and it can be a challange to keep her busy. She loves the activities, mom is cool again:)

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It's OK
Lots Of Ideas for Fun
Need some improvement
Terrible!
Not that great

The Toddler's Busy Book
Trish Kuffner
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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365 fun, creative activities to stimulate your toddler every day of the year.

This book contains 365 activities (one for each day of the year) for one-and-a-half to three-year-olds using things found around the home. It shows parents and day-care providers how to:

Prevent boredom during the longest stretches of indoor weather with ideas for indoor play, kitchen activities, and arts and crafts projects.
Stimulate a child's natural curiosity with entertaining math, language, and motor-skills activities.
Encourage a child's physical, mental, and emotional growth with ideas for fun music, food, water, and outdoor activities.
Keep toddlers occupied during long car trips or cross-town errands.

The Toddler's Busy Book is written with warmth and sprinkled with humor and insight. It should be required reading for anyone raising or teaching toddlers.

Customer Reviews:

It's OK.......2007-09-13

This is a nice book to sit and flip through to get your head around what to do with a toddler - beyond reading , going for walks and all the usual. I found that most of the activities didn't appeal to me as-is. Some required preparation that was a craft project in itself, involving long hours of gluing, cutting, pasting. Others are ok for a ten-minute thing but get old (say, batting balloons around). So I used the book as an inspiration for my own ideas. Also, I found that many activities are oriented toward entertaining the toddler. I like the approach of engaging them in a developmental activity that they could pursue and enjoy independently once they get the hang of it. My favorite books tend to be like Montessori Play And Learn. Even though that one focuses on a slightly higher age group, I found many more activities there that were appropriate for my 18-mo-old than the Toddler Busy Book.

Lots Of Ideas for Fun.......2007-07-19

Not the best in the world, I am sure, but its not a bad book either. We, as a creative family, keep many of the suggested items on hand (and I would recommend that anyone with small children keep a storage area filled with craft supplies), so it was nice to have some ideas of what to do with my 2 year old. While some of the ideas ARE very basic, sometimes the brain of a frazzled parent needs a jump start, and while you may say "well duh" after reading it, it might not be something you would have thought of right off to begin with.

We have enjoyed lots of activites with this book, and while its not arranged by age groups, parents should be somewhat aware of what their child as an individual will be able to do/enjoy. If you have a two year old who likes to put small objects in their mouth then dont do those activities-its that simple! But the amount of games and ideas are good for a variety of stages in your toddlers development and can be great spur of the moment activities.

Need some improvement.......2007-05-08

The book suggest a lot of great ideas but I found it a little bit disorganized as the activities mentioned in the book are grouped under different categories but some of the activities good for a toddler of 3 while some of them are just suitable for a toddler of 1. I need to decide which are suitable for my little daughter.

Terrible!.......2007-04-13

I thought based on many of the reviews this book would be a creative fun way to help my toddler develop and flourish. It is TERRIBLE! Unimaginative. Literally, one of the activities is making a "noodle" necklace - not with macaroni, but here's the big twist - with ziti. What a waste of money - I could have enjoyed a couple of lattes. You will be sorely disappointed in this book if you have ANY resources (memories from childhood, TV, internet, half a brain...)

Not that great.......2007-04-10

I have a very active almost 2 year old at home. This book seems to be written for people with little or no imagination whatsoever!! Many of the activities we have already tried, some of them my son came up with on his own! Also, you better have a huge amount of storage for all of the craft/used items you need to play some of these games!

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Boring and repetitive
Not so great.
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Mom's favorite
Very busy spider

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Every young child should be introduced to this story, as great a classic as its predecessor, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. This colorful picture book describes a spider's day. Blown onto a farmyard fence, she starts to spin a web. The other animals ask if she wants to play, but in every case "the spider didn't answer. She was very busy spinning her web." The book is touchable: elements including the strands of web are embossed on the pages and you can follow them with your fingertips. But the best thing by far is Carle's familiar, yet still breathtaking skill as an illustrator. Especially in this large 11.5-by-8.5-inch format, his cow, goat, and dog (just to mention three favorites) capture the essence of each animal in a way few artists can hope to approach. (Baby to preschool) --Richard Farr

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A "very" special package for a much-loved classic! Eric Carle's The Very Busy Spider, in a handsome miniature hardcover edition, comes boxed with a charming plush version of Eric Carle's Spider. Appealing to children of all ages, the plush Spider is from another Eric Carle classic.

Customer Reviews:

Boring and repetitive.......2007-08-13

I love Eric Carle's art and several of his other stories, but this one is really boring and repetitive. There's not enough variety to the images, the spider comes across as a real pill who has no interest in other creatures, and the story line is dull. Skip this and go for the chameleon or caterpillar or polar bear.

Not so great........2007-08-09

Not one of Eric Carle's best. As usual, the illustrations are fabulous, but the story didn't interest our littleone.

Cute Book, But Not Our Favorite Eric Carle Book.......2007-07-08

My 21 month old loves Eric Carle books. She liked this one as well, but like others have mentioned it doesn't seem to hold her attention nearly as well as other Carle books do. Her favorites are "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "The Very Lonely Firefly". The illustrations are as bright and colorful as they are in the other books though and the story is short enough for most toddler's to sit through.

Mom's favorite.......2007-05-06

No gimmicks, lights, or sounds here so it's not as fascinating for my son. I try to jazz it up a little bit with the animal noises and different animal voices which my son seems to enjoy. This is a good one for bedtime.

Very busy spider.......2007-01-19

Perfect for the preschool set. All five of my grandkids love this book. Helps mitigate the "look, a spider...let's kill it" response to bugs.

The Wiggle & Giggle Busy Book: 365 Fun, Physical Activities for Your Toddler and Preschooler

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The Wiggle & Giggle Busy Book: 365 Fun, Physical Activities for Your Toddler and Preschooler
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Trish Kuffner, author of the popular "Busy Book" series including The Children's Busy Book, The Preschooler's Busy Book, The Toddler's Busy Book and The Arts and Crafts Busy Book, has created an all-new book of 365 games and activities for children ages 3 to 6. The Wiggle & Giggle Busy Book offers daily suggestions for physical activities as an alternative to watching TV and playing videogames. With activities divided into chapters on outdoor, indoor, water, rhythm/music and holiday activities plus an introductory chapter describing stages of development in children, this helpful, easy-to-use book will keep kids happily and productively occupied for hours.

Customer Reviews:

Makes a big splash!!.......2007-09-28

The entire "Busy" series is engaging and fun for kids and parents alike. A great way to introduce your child to books, nature, language.

Picture Perfect Penguins.......2003-06-21

This Board Book is beautiful colour glossy photographs of busy penguins, doing what penguins do, like:

penguins splashing

penguins dashing

penguins sliding

penguins diving

penguins drooping

(and the anti - Freudian)

penguins pooping.

It's great fun in the Tundra for all ages! Reviewed by TundraVision, Amazon reviewer

Beautiful photographs - very engaging.......2001-06-17

This book was highly recommended to me by a clerk at a small children's bookstore who told me that for some reason toddlers seem to find it very captivating. I bought it for my daughter for her first birthday, and she loves it. The photographs are beautiful and there's something about the penguins that seems to really grab my daughter's attention. At 14 months she seeks out this book and will "read" it to herself. I agree with the reviewer below who said that the "penguins pooping" page is a real attention-grabber for the toilet training set, and though it could be gross, something about the fact that it's a penguin who's pooping is strangely charming and humorous (if you can stomach that type of thing!). Overall five stars for a book that my daughter and I both love - a great thing for a parent who has to read it over and over.

Engaging book for any toddler.......2000-12-17

"Busy Penguins" is one of my 18-month-old daughter's favorite books. The photographs are incredible, and the text has a gentle rhythm that she finds engaging.

A delightful board book!.......2000-11-20

The fascinating photos and playful text will surely make your kid smile as they get a closer look at penguins doing various things. Penguins are so cool!

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Meow!
Great book for toddlers who love cats!
would have been great without the kitty "puddling"
Great book
Great for babies, toddlers AND parents!

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Get some cattitude! A CATalog of kitties awaits fans of furry felines in this fourth Busy board book. Witness a fine purr-formance of kitty capers, beautifully captured by newcomer photo-grapher Sean Franzen.

Customer Reviews:

Meow!.......2007-09-28

The entire "Busy" series is engaging and fun for kids and parents alike. A great way to introduce your child to books, nature, language.

Great book for toddlers who love cats!.......2007-09-24

My daughter is going through a cat phase and she found this book at the library and LOVES it. We had to return it, so now I am buying her a copy for her birthday and she will be so thrilled. Ever since we returned it to the library, we have had to say it by heart before bed.... the rhymed couplets are very easy to remember and my daughter knows them all by heart. I think beyond it being a fun book with great pictures, it helped my daugher practice rhyming, too.

I just want to note also that the picture of the 'Kitty Puddling' is not graphic at all. You don't see a cat squatting down and peeing- all you see is a cat foot with a yellow puddle next to it. My toddler laughs so hard at that page.

All in all, 5 stars by far!!!

would have been great without the kitty "puddling".......2007-09-08

I'm not usually one to complain, but if I had known that there would be a photo of a cat squatting and a puddle of pee in the floor, I would have opted for a different "Busy" book. The rest of the photos are great so it's a shame that one page ruined the book.

Great book.......2007-01-14

Wonderful, engaging and on occasion funny photos. My 5 year old and 18mth old are hooked!

Great for babies, toddlers AND parents!.......2006-04-29

I bought this book when I was pregnant because I thought it was hilarious. My son (now 20 months old) just loves it too, and has for many months now. It gets lots of use...he likes to look at the photos while I read it to him. Short, simple and loads of fun! Great for anyone, but especially if you have a cat.

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Delightful
Busy Toddler LOVES Busy Monkeys
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Glorious full-color photographs introduce young children to the monkeys of South America and Africa. The cast includes an amazing array of beautiful, cuddly, and downright weird-looking species. This rollicking follow-up to Busy Penguins teaches toddlers everyday action words and shows them that whatever busy monkeys do, kids can do too!

Customer Reviews:

Delightful.......2007-09-28

The entire "Busy" series is engaging and fun for kids and parents alike. A great way to introduce your child to books, nature, language.

Busy Toddler LOVES Busy Monkeys.......2007-08-04

My 16 month old grandson has fallen in love with this book! He loves the close up photos of the different monkey faces and makes the Monkey sound effects during parts of the book. Rhyming words and real-life photos make a winning combination in this fun board-book for toddlers!

Great little book!.......2006-09-29

My toddler loves this book. We got it for him when he was about six months old. He's now two and he's always loved it and it has grown with him. I gave this book to all my friends with babies and all their kids love it too. I've been told by several people that it's a great book for the car and keeps the kids entertained while driving around. The other 'busy' books are good too, but this one is the best of the series. Be prepared to hear lots of monkey noises when your kids read this book!

A rhyming good time.......2002-12-21

A follow-up to "Busy Penguins", "Busy Monkeys" features engaging prose and photographs that will thrill your toddler. My daughter enjoyed reading it before visiting the tamarins and squirrel monkeys at the Oakland (California) zoo.

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The Arts and Crafts Busy Book: 365 Art and Craft Activities to Keep Toddlers and Preschoolers Busy

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Crafting and play fun for toddlers

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Crafting and play fun for toddlers.......2004-04-07

Full of simple arts and crafts for toddlers and preschool children "The Arts and Crafts Busy Book" is a great resource. In total there are 365 basic crafts grouped into 12 chapters. Some of the areas covered include coloring, painting, printmaking, modeling, sculpting, nature arts and crafts, educational arts and crafts, and holiday arts and crafts. Each craft is laid out in cookbook style listing all the materials required first and then the instructions for completing the craft. Easy, fun activities for preschool children, "The Arts and Crafts Busy Book" is highly recommended for anyone who deals with young children.

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