Practical Life Books & Cards
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Lets 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. Learn More -
Tidy Up!
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
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. 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 Books
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. Learn More


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