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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Fun Free Arts And Crafts Paper and Scissors Book for kids, homeschool, classroom or adults

If you're read this blog once in a while, chances are that as soon as you saw this post you knew I was excited about the freebie (arts and crafts nut and kid at heart that I am.) Paper crafts are especially cool because they can be cheap if you use the recycled kind!
Well, today over at Homeschool Freebie of the Day Jim Erskine is offering the vintage book "PAPER AND SCISSORS (PDF ebook). Sure, kids (homeschoolers or brick and mortar students alike, I should think) will enjoy this. But so will parents and grandparents and great grandparents. Plus especially paper crafts artists, card-makers, etc.
Here's how Erskine describes the book:
"A timeless classic guide to paper folding and construction, both for fun (think toys, doll furniture, etc.), eye-hand coordination, dexterity, and as an introduction to learning geometrical figures. This practical and systematic

paper scissors
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)

course of projects progresses from simple projects to quite advanced projects. Great busy work fun for young at heart students of all ages!"
To get your copy head on over here: http://www.homeschoolfreebie.wholesomechildhood.com/paper-scissors/

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Friday, August 10, 2012

Free "The Brownies at Home" Vintage Ebook Features U.S.A. landmarks, gnomes etc.

Brownie drawn and signed by Palmer Cox

This freebie has nothing to do with the Girl Scouts and the Brownies of today, lol. In "The Brownies at Home" by Palmer Cox (PDF ebook) the brownies are cute little characters by Palmer Cox. I just love 'em. Cute little gnomes similar to the Whos in Whoville, lol.

Portrait of Palmer Cox : Frontispiece Frontier Humor, Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry, c.1900. Scanned and uploaded to freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/images by Trevor W. McKeown. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This goody would be great for homeschool, classroom or just for family fun. Think literature, geography, seasonal science, etc.

Here's how Jim Erskine describes it "In this classic collection of Palmer Cox’s beloved “Brownies”, characters there are twelve stories – one for each month of the year. Follow the Brownies as they visit some early American landmarks and also create their own seasonal fun from January through December.

Our kids will enjoy finding their own “favorite brownie” in Cox’s wonderfully complex and intricately detailed illustrations." Perhaps the predecessor to "Where's Waldo?"
Here's a cool vintage photo of a song to go with their stories:

To download your copy of the Brownies ebook up top of this blog entry, go here:
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

The Spark of Life « Homeschool Freebie of the Day

Magnolia seed and baby snail (Photo credit: Marianne Perdomo)

I can't wait to read "THE SPARK OF LIFE by Margaret Warner Morley, and to have my kids read it too, of course. They love nature stuff!

As Jim Erskine puts it, this free ebook is "The story of how living things come into the world, told for boys and girls. This is another short, sweet and delightful nature book (only 60+ pages) from the author of Little Wanderers and Seed Babies.

Seed baby -- chimera? (Photo credit: Geek2Nurse)

“No parent can truthfully say again: ‘ No one has ever told the story of life simple enough for a child to understand.’ For here it is, told as simply and beautifully as I have ever seen it told before.” – Edward Bok"

To download your copy head on over here:
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