The aficionado of Eric Carle's work will cherish this compendium of his collected works, as well as the autobiography and photographs of his artistic process that interweave the pages and pages of art. In these early years, your little ones are already leaving their beloved Carle books on your coffee table. This book shows that they belong there.
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$16.99
$11.55
Some of our favorite travel treats are the simplest ones of all - post-its for the one-year-old set and seemingly tear-proof index cards and washable markers for the preschoolers. And the Magna Doodle for everyone! Yes, it's the same charming toy that you remember from being a kid, and yes, it's still as fun. There is a travel version that is a mite smaller, but if you can squeeze the ...
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$14.99
Stamping is a fun way for your child to express herself outside the clay and crayon realm. This set comes with 16 stamps and two six-colored inkpads, and your little one can make countless little scenes that are perhaps more recognizable to uninspired grown-up eyes than the wild circles and early representational drawings you already have up on the fridge. The stamps are of course of the sturdy ...
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$9.99
$9.93
There are lots of wonderful easels for children out there, but this one has out-designed them all. It folds compactly and it's portable! It has a storage bin and organizational pockets! And a dry-erase board, and a paper roll! All we can say is: wow. It is the definitive answer for small apartments and trips to grandparents' houses. Won't this make lots of little artists very happy indeed!
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$39.99
$29.99
Do you remember the melamine plates with your early artwork on them in your grandmother's kitchen? Don't you think your own parents, now grandparents of your little darling, need their own set? They do; trust us, they do. Here's how it works: your child creates a drawing on one of the special drawing pages included, or you can send in a photograph, and you can add ...
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$14.95
$12.49
We love finding everything we need all in one place. There's no question that in your art box you've got a couple of nubs of sidewalk chalk and at least ten markers (with probably no more than eight corresponding caps) and lots of crayons (too many of them brown). But imagine how easy it would be for your child to express himself if he could actually find all ...
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$54.99
This is another project that you will welcome into your home because it strikes the perfect balance between setting free your child's creative impulses and assuaging your oh-what-a-mess fears. The set contains six self-stick patterns and 500 tissue paper squares. Your little one peels down the picture a little bit at a time and then madly crumples the tissue paper and sticks it on the pattern. It ...
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$10.99
The perfect art table for a young artist or two! Comes with 2 benches, paper roll holder and an 18? x 75? roll of white drawing paper, paper cutter, canvas storage bag and 2 recessed cup holes for the 2 cups that keep markers, crayons and brushes tidy. Tabletop is also a chalkboard. Table measures 49? W x 29.5?D x 18?H. Benches measure: 23.5? W x 10? D x 11? ...
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$169.99
Two green-eyed kittens who slosh around great big buckets of paint making all kinds of messes - what more appealing heroes could we ask for? The color kittens have only yellow, red, and blue paint, but what they really want is some green. So the kittens mix their paints, and Margaret Wise Brown mixes her lovely prose with a touch of poetry in order to teach young children ...
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$2.99
As intriguing as so many of the electronic learning toys seem, it's always a niggling little concern that your child doesn't seem to be doing much other than sitting there while the machine beeps and trills along. Well, leave it to the old favorite Fisher Price to change all that. The SparkArt easel has all of the charms of a traditional easel . three height settings and a ...
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$99.99
This magical tale is much the tale of Eric Carle's life, as the afterword explains, starting from the story of his own childhood with a grandmother who showed him the power of creativity and expression. Like the animals in his other books seeing or hearing each other across the pages, each of the artist's creations in this book asks for a new creation, culminating in the drawing of the whole ...
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$16.99
$13.59
We find that some art projects are better left to the professionals at preschool. We aren't big fans of papier mache drying all over our kitchens. But these puppets are a project you'll be happy to welcome into your house. The kit contains enough faces, hair, eyes, buttons, ribbons and other accessories for your child to make 24 new friends, or the entire cast of a puppet ...
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$19.95
This whopper of a book is just the answer for an entire rainy season's worth of cries of "I'm bored!" The author of some of our most treasured books (including My Friends and the old standard Everyone Poops) offers almost 400 pages geared toward getting your kids to imagine, draw and create. There are pictures for them to finish, scenes for them to sketch out, visualization ...
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$19.95
$13.57
This much-loved story makes a compelling case for the power of imagination. It also frees you from thinking that you need to give or make or buy all sorts of things to spark your little one's imagination. In the case of Harold, whatever he needs, he creates for himself, all with the help of one magic purple crayon. You've got a worn waxy stub of any color at all in ...
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$6.99
We have raved about the Spark Art Easel, and we really must rave about some of the add-on kits that make it even more inspiring. The Sentence and Story Creator kit and the Music Maker kit are especially remarkable . they each come with a content chip and several dozen magnets (words for the first, notes for the latter), and your child is able to use the Inspiration ...
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$14.99
Now that your drawing materials are so neat and tidy, you'll want the same treatment for your child's modeling clay materials. The Play-Doh Creativity Center gives you all the necessary tools for an entire childhood's worth of Play-Doh fun. The table and lid (shaped like a breakfast in bed tray - you can have coffee on yours while the little sculptor has bright green Play-Doh on hers) hold ...
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$29.99
$22.49
This toy is so cool (there's no better word) that is has acquired an almost cult-like following not just among kids but also among grown-up artists and designers. The set includes 350 brightly colored shapes that stick when pressed to the black shiny surfaces in this spiral bound book, and can be rearranged in different patterns and images to your little one's heart's content. Your young designer can compose images ...
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$32.99
$18.18
This kit takes more parental supervision than some of the ones we recommend, but it is such a lovely kit that we simply can't keep it to ourselves. Your little artist can create beautiful jewelry and hair accessories for herself or for gifts with this all-inclusive kit. After she paints on the back side of any of the 36 included glass stones with the paints or glitter, flip ...
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$19.95
If you find yourself at a large gathering of family or friends when this toy is opened, be warned: an ugly fight could break out between the grown-ups jockeying for a turn before your little one ever has a chance! This stuff is simply amazing. It has some serious ‘wow' factor - incredible, sandy, crumbly dough that can be molded into any shape and never dries out. ...
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$29.99
$22.49
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