Create a Home of Learning- Award-Winning Guide to Setting Up Your Home with Play Areas & Screen-Free Play. For Years of Fun & Discovery!

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Create your own home of learning (Screen Free)!

Reader’s Favorite 5 Star Award, 2022Mom’s Choice Award, Gold Winner, 2022Non-fiction Authors Association Award, Gold Winner, 2022Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Finalist, 2022

Children learn while they play! Transform your home into a home of learning by using these easy-to-follow instructions, lists of toys and equipment by age, and simple ways to promote play. Set up small learning areas and learn how to facilitate years of screen-free fun and discovery right at home!

What a child plays with and how matters during the different stages of his or her development. The right types of play build the conceptual foundations of math, problem-solving, literacy, social skills, art and creativity, science, emotional maturity, critical thinking, leadership, and more.

Play isn’t a break from learning; it’s the way children learn!

These techniques can be started as soon as a child can crawl, and can be used throughout a child’s elementary school years. The techniques in this book focus on infancy to age eight. Understanding how children learn and play and incorporating the different types of toys and techniques to engage and facilitate play will transform the lives of your children and open the world of learning and discovery right in your home.

You’ll see your child’s excitement every time he or she enters the playroom and different learning areas. You’ll recognize how your child learns and develops. You’ll watch your child grow into a competent, confident, independent, and prepared learner while playing and having fun.

The concepts, materials, and activities in this book have been developed and used by early childhood practitioners and educators for decades, and are implemented and in practice in nationally accredited early learning programs. Parents can offer the same rich experiences and create the same environment at home. By following the book’s simple instructions, using the lists of toys and equipment, diagrams, and pictures, you can quickly and easily create your own home of learning!

A Simple, Easy-to-Use Format
* Easy-to-set-up play and learning areas
* For young children, 0-8 years
* Simple and structured ways to facilitate a child’s development
* Lists of toys, supplies, and equipment by age
* Meaningful, concrete, screen-free learning

Young children learn while they play!

From the Publisher

Create a Home of Learning: Screen-Free Toys and Techniques! Ages 0-8

Transform your home into a nurturing environment for learning and discovery with screen-free toys and activities, as soon as they can crawl!

GOLD WINNER & 5 STAR AWARD

Every parent wants what is best for their child, and this book helps parents make their home a haven for learning.

The book explains how children learn and what is needed to increase that learning. This book contains helpful information for parents who want to give their children learning opportunities after school or decide to homeschool. The suggestions can also be used for operating a child-care/early learning center. After reading this book, any parent will be equipped to help their children become conducive to early learning.

In this book, you receive an easy & simple to follow format and resources for years of learning and discovery right at home!

Tons of homemade ideas for materials and resourcesAn easy to use system to follow for every day playIncludes the right activities, toys, & equipment for learning by age for proper developmentBeautiful candid unstaged photos on every page! Create a Home of Learning: Screen-Free Toys and Techniques for Your Developing Child

Keep your little ones busy and learning for hours with meaningful, hands-on activities that build essential skills like math, problem-solving, literacy, social skills, creativity, and more. Discover how play is the way children learn and develop, and create a home of learning that fosters your child’s excitement, confidence, and love for discovery.

BENEFITS Easy to read Simple to set up Same techniques as accredited preschools Award Winning Raved by Parents Supported by Early Childhood Educators Picture and Photos to follow on every page

Years of Fun and Discovery! Toys that Target Learning and Proper Development

Music Area

Examples of Resources

• Tambourine

• Xylophone

• Bells, bell bands,

melody bells

• String instruments (guitar, ukulele, other)

• Kazoos

• Rhythm sticks

• Scarves

• Piano

Kitchen Area

Examples of Resources

• Play kitchen with pretend food

• Stacking cubes

• Baby dolls

• Blocks, Magnet Tiles

• Role-playing kits (doctor, veterinarian, other)

• Dress-up clothes (costumes, simple pieces of materials)

• Magnetic letters & numbers

• Pegs & peg boards

Sensory Table

Examples of Resources

• Pasta

• Sand

• Rocks

• Things that fill, dump, splash, or shoot water (funnels,

tubing, spray bottles, syringes, sponges, rags, turkey baster,

medicine dispensers from CVS, or other)

• Measuring cups & spoons

• Kitchen utensils

• Tweezers and egg

Art Area

Examples of Resources

• Easel (single or double sided or tabletop)

• Paper (different sizes and types: large sheets of white paper, pads

of paper, lined, unlined, construction paper, other)

• Paints (washable, finger paints, watercolors, acrylics, bubble/

fabric paint, other)

• Various sizes of

paint brushes

Easily set up your home of learning!

How Children Develop and Learn

Simply explanations and easy to follow instructions on how children develop, what to look for, and how to target the areas of development through facilitating play spaces rights at home!

List of Toys and Equipment

The book is full of lists of the right toys and equipment by age that children learn fundamental buildings blocks of knowledge by playing with them. Language, math skills, cognitive thinking, and more!

How to Set Up and Facilitate

The book provides detailed and easy to follow instructions on how to facilitate the play spaces! Transform your home into a fun and engaging learning environment for your child with easy-to-follow instructions, age-appropriate toy and equipment lists, and simple ways to promote screen-free play.

List of Materials

The book includes lists of supplies and materials for each play space, and many homemade ideas. Hours and hours of endless fun for years and discovery await!

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jodi Dee Publishing
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 15, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 184 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0998527750
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0998527758
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 0.5 x 7 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #575,538 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #394 in Parent Participation in Education (Books) #1,334 in Early Childhood Education #1,779 in Homeschooling (Books)
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