ThemeDays

You know that children of all ages love Theme Days, where everything they do revolves around one idea, whether it's dinosaurs or detectives, school days or birthdays. This book describes 52 different themes, designed to be non-gender-specific, with enough activities to fill an entire day. What's different is that each activity, whether indoor or outdoor play, art or craft project, read-out-loud storytime or musical interactions, quiet video-viewing or building a snack, is specifically aimed at two- to three-year-olds, but also reworked to challenge four- to five-year-olds, or six-to-seven-year-olds, as you know their skill and safety levels.

More than 750 recommended storybooks,
More than 250 play activities,
More than 100 art/craft projects,
More than 100 audio cassette/CD recommendations,
More than 170 recommended videotapes,
More than 100 snack ideas,
Ways to adapt the ideas for older children, and
A little something extra to do/use/try/visit or
just ponder…

Plus ---

              A Write-in Checklist for Art/Craft Supplies
              Ways to Organize Your Supplies
              Suggested Toys, Dress-Up Clothes, and Props
                           for Inside/Outside Play and
              Video, Audio and Internet Resource Listings
                           (with addresses, phone numbers and web sites)

How to Use This Book
         What's Behind Each Theme
         Planning Ahead

Stocking up on Supplies
         Art/Craft Supplies
                 What supplies do you already have?
                 Simple things to buy
                 More expensive supplies to consider
                     buying
         Ways to organize the supplies
         Toys for Inside/Outside Play
                 Good toys you may already have
                 Lower cost toys to buy
                 "Special Treat" toys to buy
          Dress-Up Clothes/Props
                  Dress-up materials on hand
                  Dress-up props to consider buying

52 Weeks of Theme Day Activities
          Airports/Planes
          Balls
          Bears
          Birds
          Birthdays
          Boats
          Bugs/Butterflies
          Camping
          Carpentry
          Cars/Trucks
          Castles/Royalty
          Circus
          Clocks/Time
          Colors/Light
          Dancing/Jumping/Hopping
          Detectives
          Dinosaurs
          Dragons/Fairies
          Farm Life
          Firefighting
          Fish/Under the Sea
          Flags/Signs
          Flowers/Vegetables
          Fruit/Trees
          Hair

Good Stores and Catalogs

Even More Books

Video, Audio and Internet Sources

Hats/Shoes
Inventions
Kitchen Fun
Library
Maps/Traveling
Musical Instruments
Nursery Rhymes
Old-Fashioned Days
Patterns/Puzzles/Shapes
Pirates
Post Office
Rain
Restaurant
School
Sewing/Knitting/Weaving
Snow
Sound/Noise
Stores/Shopping
Sun/Stars/Space
Surprises!
Theater/Movies
Trains
Western Days
Wheels
Zoo/Safari