Practical Life Books & Cards
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Let's Eat! - What Children Eat Around the World
Rich photos, engaging text, and charming quotes from children in Mexico, France, South Africa, India, and Thailand thoroughly explore a favorite subject. Includes simple recipes and a glossary of food-related words. Hardcover, 40 pages. Learn More -
Tidy Up! - Small World Book
Whether children live in Indonesia or Indiana, “Messes look like mountains until someone lends a hand.” Stunning photographs and rhyming text reveal both our human commonalities and individual uniqueness. Paperback, 24 pages. Learn More -
Plants We Eat - From In-Print For Children
Learn more about food plants and their different edible parts with this coordinated set of picture/label/definition cards, control booklets, and reproducible replicards. Learn More -
The Vegetables We Eat - By Gail Gibbons
This well-organized overview will enrich any child’s gardening and food preparation experiences. The “story” of how vegetables are grown, processed, and distributed, told mostly in pictures. Paperback, 32 pages. Learn More -
Pretend Soup: And Other Real Recipes - Cookbook for children by Mollie Katzen
19 tasty recipes children can make themselves (and serve to friends!) using fresh, wholesome foods. Each recipe appears twice: once in words (for the adult) and once in step-by-step graphics (for the children). Learn More -
Salad People: And More Real Recipes - Cookbook for children by Mollie Katzen
20 tasty recipes children can make themselves (and serve to friends!) using fresh, wholesome foods. Each recipe appears twice: once in words (for the adult) and once in step-by-step graphics (for the children). Learn More -
Cookin Cards: Individualized Cooking Recipes for Classroom Snack
A tried and tested method for children as young as three to make their own daily snacks. This set of instructional picture/word cards has an appealing teacher-made look and outlines nearly 50 recipes. Learn More -
Food Cards
This set of attractive Food Cards is perfect for teaching the names of familiar foods, as well as for sorting activities. Two sets can become a matching or memory game. Each photo card features a simple image of a common food on an uncluttered background. 50 cards. Learn More -
The Child's Kitchen Cards
After children have learned the names of various kitchen tools, use the picture-only cards in this set for a one-to-one matching activity. Later, use the three-part cards for beginning reading activities. All photos isolate their subject on a white background. Learn More -
Practical Life Book Set - From Elanbe Publishing Services
Children will see familiar activities from the Montessori classroom in this set of 6 books. There are two books each for Bean Pouring, Bean Spooning, and Water Pouring. The first introduces each activity. The second book highlights new vocabulary. Paperback, 12-16 pages each. Learn More -
Kitchen Science
Cooking is science! In the kitchen we measure, classify, use tools, observe, and follow steps. And, the resulting chemical reactions create the delicious foods we love to eat. Paperback, 16 pages. Learn More


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