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Earthways [Paperback]

Carol Petrash (Author), Donald Cook (Illustrator)
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Divided into four parts according to the seasons, Earthways is a treasure trove of earth-friendly activities for use in the classroom or at home. These activities foster a respect for the environment as well as for good old-fashioned thrift. With idea after "do-able" idea, this is a real find. -- Children's Book Review Service Inc. (New York)

Early childhood author Carol Petrash has gathered more than 100 classroom activities designed to help preschool children grow in what Rachel Carson called "the sense of wonder." The difference from other children's craft books is signaled by the first chapter, which describes setting up an "earth-friendly" home and classroom and breaking the throw-away habit. The activities are organized by season and age groupings (3-plus to 5-plus). Making leaf crowns, nut people, seasonal gardens, drying and roasting pumpkin seeks (after the usual carving) are activities that can help children become creators in rhythm with the Earth in a way deliberately focused away from consumption of purchased materials. A section on creating a more natural outdoor play space in a bare asphalt schoolyard is especially interesting. A find resource for people working with young children. -- Earth Ethics (Washington, D.C.)

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With Earthways you'll teach young children environmental concepts--and earth-friendly ways of living--through imaginative activities and crafts. Arranged by season, this book helps children experience our dependence upon the earth first-hand while learning about recycling, composting, toxicity, and more.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The most beautiful craft book I've seen, Aug 14 2010
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CanadianMother (Ontario) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Earthways (Paperback)
I love Earthways...my public library has it and I take it out often, since it is out of print now and used copies are rather expensive.

Earthways is divided into seasons, so you can celebrate the seasons and holidays with your children through crafts. I like this, but what I really love about this book is that all of the crafts use natural materials when possible. This is not only environmentally friendly, but the end result is crafts that are more attractive than your usual neon plastic foam and glitter variety. For example, we did one craft last Thanksgiving, which was splatter outlines of leaves. Most craft books would instruct to do this on construction paper, but Earthways tells us to do the painting on squares of cloth, and pin the cloth to wooden sticks (we found poplar sticks worked the best for this). This created such a pretty and rustic looking decoration for our Thanksgiving feast.

All in all, this is a wonderful craft book that I would highly recommend to teachers and parents. I don't understand why it's no longer in print--perhaps because the title is too vague?
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5.0 out of 5 stars We LOVE this book!, April 30 2001
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K. Vollweiler "k" (usa) - See all my reviews
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This is such a Wonderful Book! It has Easy and Fun ideas for crafts to do with children! Everything from making a small fairy garden with real grass, to Easter crafts, to interesting Harvest time crafts! We have had this book for a few weeks now, and have enjoyed making three of the projects so far! My seven year old daughter adores sitting and reading this book to get ideas for us to work on together next! We own several craft books...But this one is by far the easiest and most creative for children to use! I love the fact that everything is nature based! A must buy, for nature loving families!
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book is GREAT!!, Jan 5 1998
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As a homeschooling mother, I'm always looking for simple, easy learning activities that can benefit my children from preschool age to late elementary. Earthways is one of the best books I've seen on this topic. The activities are geared toward younger children (preschool/early elementary), but even my pre-teen enjoys the varied activities.
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