If you want to create glasses for your puppets, then here’s an excellent video tutorial created by Sharon Ojala. I just followed her instructions to make my step by step photo tutorial below.


If you want to create glasses for your puppets, then here’s an excellent video tutorial created by Sharon Ojala. I just followed her instructions to make my step by step photo tutorial below.

Who Ate All the Cookie Dough? by Karen Beaumont and Eugene Yelchin is a children’s picture book about missing cookie dough. Kanga the kangaroo is making cookies, but discovers the cookie dough is all gone. She’ll ask the zebra, hippo, lion, cheetah, llama and monkey if they ate the cookie dough. Find out who did it when you read the book.
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Don’t Push the Button! by Bill Cotter is an interactive children’s picture book featuring Larry and a large red button that he shouldn’t push. When he can’t resist the temptation any longer, he tells the reader to push the button. And the results are unexpected for each additional push.
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Don’t Push the Button! by Bill Cotter is an interactive children’s picture book featuring Larry and a large red button that he shouldn’t push. When he can’t resist the temptation any longer, he tells the reader to push the button. And the results are unexpected for each additional push.
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It’s almost been one year since our 31 Free Hand Puppet Patterns from Around the Web Post. To celebrate here’s another collection of free puppet patterns from around the web. This time the focus is on marionettes. Enjoy!
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In July, let’s go visit an independent ice cream shop that makes adventurous horseradish ice cream. Or just argue over whether chocolate is better than vanilla.

In June, it’s time to go camping in the great outdoors with a cooler full of dairy products, iced tea and candy.

In May, it’s time to take a photo of your newest barbeque invention before cooking up some hamburgers.

As a volunteer reader for a local early literacy resource center called Make Way for Books, I read to preschoolers at Little Castle Child Care and Preschool here in Tucson AZ. It is so rewarding to read to all of the different ages, from one year up to five years old.

In April, spring and bunnies and colorful eggs abound, so break out your straw hat, poetry book and get that garden in order.