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The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections

10 best books like The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections (Amanda Blake Soule): You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six, Playful Learning: Develop Your Child's Sense of Joy and Wonder, Buddhism for Mothers: A Calm Approach to Caring for Yourself and Your Children, Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting, The Case For Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World, I Love Dirt!: 52 Activities to Help You and Your Kids Discover the Wonders of Nature, Calm and Compassionate Children: A Handbook, Creative Play for Your Toddler: Steiner Waldorf Expertise and Toy Projects for 2 - 4s, Playful Parenting, Heaven on Earth: A Handbook for Parents of Young Children

You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six
AuthorRahima Baldwin Dancy
ISBN0890879672
Nowadays parents are bombarded by any number of approaches about how to be with their children. YOU ARE YOUR CHILD'S FIRST TEACHER introduces a new way of understanding the human being so that parents can be best equipped to serve as their own children's best teachers. Chapters include: Caring for the...
Playful Learning: Develop Your Child's Sense of Joy and Wonder
AuthorMariah Bruehl
ISBN1590308190
Children are natural scientists, artists, mathematicians, authors, and scholars. From the time they are born they seek out information about the world around them in an effort to construct meaning and further their development. While children have an inherent drive to make sense of their reality,...
Buddhism for Mothers: A Calm Approach to Caring for Yourself and Your Children
AuthorSarah Napthali
ISBN1741140102
Addressing the often-overlooked spiritual needs of mothers, this book discusses Buddhist teachings as applied to the everyday challenges and stresses of raising children. Offered are ways for mothers to reconnect with their inner selves and become calmer and happier—with the recognition that...
Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
AuthorMyla Kabat-Zinn
ISBN0786883146
The bestselling author of the million-copy bestseller Wherever You Go, There You Are and Full Catastrophe Living joins forces with his wife, Myla, in this revised edition of their groundbreaking book about mindfulness in parenting children of all ages.
Updated with new material -- including...
The Case For Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World
AuthorSusan Linn
ISBN1565849701
In The Case for Make Believe, Harvard child psychologist Susan Linn tells the alarming story of childhood under siege in a commercialized and technology-saturated world. Although play is essential to human development and children are born with an innate capacity for make believe, Linn argues that,...
I Love Dirt!: 52 Activities to Help You and Your Kids Discover the Wonders of Nature
AuthorJennifer Ward
ISBN1590305353
I Love Dirt! presents 52 open-ended activities to help you engage your child in the outdoors. No matter what your location—from a small patch of green in the city to the wide-open meadows of the country—each activity is meant to promote exploration, stimulate imagination, and heighten a child's...
Calm and Compassionate Children: A Handbook
AuthorSusan Usha Dermond
ISBN1587612763
Building on such inherent qualities as openheartedness and trust, parents and teachers can help children develop empathy and integrity as they grow and mature. From nature activities to conscious quiet time to tips on daily routines, CALM AND COMPASSIONATE CHILDREN provides practical guidance...
Creative Play for Your Toddler: Steiner Waldorf Expertise and Toy Projects for 2 - 4s
AuthorChristopher Clouder
ISBN1856752860
Give your kids more than a diet of television and plastic toys with this inspiring course. Following hot on the heels of the hugely popular Creative Play for your Baby, this is the ideal resource for modern parents who want their children to expand their creativity and imagination through play. Discover...
Playful Parenting
AuthorLawrence J. Cohen
ISBN0345442865

Have you ever stepped back to watch what really goes on when your children play? As psychologist Lawrence J. Cohen points out, play is children’s way of exploring the world, communicating deep feelings, getting close to those they care about, working through stressful situations, and simply...
Heaven on Earth: A Handbook for Parents of Young Children
AuthorSharifa Oppenheimer
ISBN0880105666
As we see a shift of old forms that were once the foundations of our daily lives, parents--who must prepare the next generation to meet the changing world--have more questions today than ever before. Although our cultural values and family structures may change, it is the atmosphere in the home that...
Seven Times the Sun: Guiding Your Child Through the Rhythms of the Day
AuthorShea Darian
ISBN0931055962
Waldorf mother and educator Shea Darian offers a unique and wonderfully creative guide to help parents and children forge a strong family bond. Weaving songs, stories, family rituals, and verses throughout, Darian shows how to bring joy to such daily events as mealtimes, going to bed, chores, naps,...
Show Me a Story: 40 Craft Projects and Activities to Spark Children's Storytelling
AuthorEmily K. Neuburger
ISBN1603429883
Encouraging children to let their imagination run wild, Emily K. Neuburger offers 40 inventive projects and activities that will inspire kids ages 5 to 12 to express themselves through storytelling. Younger children will love making story stones and a storytelling jar, while older kids will open...
The Write Start: A Guide to Nurturing Writing at Every Stage, from Scribbling to Forming Letters and Writing Stories
AuthorJennifer Hallissy
ISBN1590308379
How do you raise children who love to write? Jennifer Hallissy believes that if you give children a solid foundation of writing basics, they will develop a love of writing that lasts a lifetime. In this book, she shares the secrets for supporting young writers, from the smallest of scribblers to middle-schoolers...
First Art: Art Experiences for Toddlers and Twos
AuthorMaryAnn F. Kohl
ISBN0876592221
Jump right in—doing art with toddlers and twos is fun, rewarding, and a wonderful learning experience. Children discover their world as they explore the 75 fun-filled art adventures in First Art. They will joyfully squeeze a rainbow, make their own (safe) beads to string, and create their very own...
Feeding the Whole Family: Whole Foods Recipes for Babies, Young Children, and Their Parents
AuthorCynthia Lair
ISBN0966034619
This book is an excellent example of why many people are overwhelmed and put off by the thought of whole foods. I consider myself pretty crunchy, and I use mostly whole foods cooking for my family, but I thought most of the recipes in this book were just plain weird.

I took issue with her liberal...
Steady Days: A Journey Toward Intentional, Professional Motherhood
AuthorJamie C. Martin
ISBN0984124608
You can apply the same techniques of efficiency, intention, and purpose that you've used in other careers to your most important position in life-motherhood. Steady Days takes you through the process of becoming a professional mother: one who is organized and excited to spend time with your young...
Roots, Shoots, Buckets Boots: Gardening Together with Children
AuthorSharon Lovejoy
ISBN0761110569
Plant a pumpkinseed with a child, and cultivate wonder. This simple act of reconnecting with children with nature is Sharon Lovejoy's purpose and joy and gift. Author of Sunflower Houses: Garden Discoveries for Children of All Ages and Hollyhock Days: Garden Adventures for the Young at Heart, Sharon...
Festivals, Family and Food
AuthorDiana Carey
This family favourite is a unique, well loved source of stories, recipes, things to make, activities, poems, songs and festivals. Each festival such as Christmas, Candlemas and Martinmas has its own, well-illustrated chapter. There are also sections on Birthdays, Rainy Days, Convalescence and...
Bend-the-Rules Sewing: The Essential Guide to a Whole New Way to Sew
AuthorAmy Karol
ISBN0307347214
potter craft amy karol uses her characteristic sense of humor and style to walk novices through every stitch of the sewing process from assembling basic materials and learning techniques to create 30 simple stylish projects that provide instant sewing gratification and confidence. trendy modern...
All Year Round: Calendar of Celebrations, A
AuthorAnn Druitt
ISBN1869890477
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Stitched in Time: Memory-Keeping Projects to Sew and Share from the Creator of Posie Gets Cozy
AuthorAlicia Paulson
ISBN0307406261
random house stitched in time. while a scrapbook can highlight our favorite memories of people places pets etc. they are often stashed on a bookshelf only to be pulled out every few years. now by combining sewing with memory keeping the loves of our lives can be celebrated every day with useful and ornamental...
Last-Minute Patchwork + Quilted Gifts
AuthorJoelle Hoverson
ISBN1584796340
Update: After checking this book out from the library THREE TIMES, my very own copy arrived in the mail today. I guess I'm changing my rating from four to five stars.
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Usually with project books, about half of the projects are hideous, a quarter are way too hard, and a quarter...
Lotta Jansdotter's Simple Sewing: Patterns and How-To for 24 Fresh and Easy Projects
AuthorLotta Jansdotter
ISBN0811852571
Internationally celebrated designer Lotta Jansdotter collects 24 of her most popular sewing patterns into one irresistible collection. Our innovative packaging makes for easy usereusable pattern sheets are neatly tucked into a folder inside this full-color, lay-flat spiral bound book. Lotta...
Doodle Stitching: Fresh Fun Embroidery for Beginners
AuthorAimee Ray
ISBN1600590616
Asian-inspired lampshades embellished with flying fish. Canvas sneakers decorated with pink and white swirls. A pretty pillow adorned with a sleeping bunny, sweetly curled up. All it takes to create these appealing projects—or add charming embroidered touches in no time at all—are a few simple...
Beyond the Rainbow Bridge: Nurturing Our Children from Birth to Seven
AuthorBarbara J. Patterson
ISBN0964783231
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My family is not exactly a "Waldorf Family," however, we do appreciate the Waldorf style and philosophy. (And I have long since learned that I do not have to subscribe to any philosophy wholly in order to borrow from it). But this book really brought to light a lot of what the Waldorf philosophy...
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