Summer Activities

Ideal for school science fairs, this book contains 64 valuable science experiments. All use common household ingredients and equipment. Illustrations.

It's OK to be smart! With more than 25 million copies sold, Brain Quest is America's #1 educational bestseller! Twenty-one different decks are available, including "Brain Quest for the Car." (Games & Activities)

Bear bags, wilderness showers, and telling the temperature by counting the cricket chirps... Whether you're planning an over night in the backyard or a weekend in the wilderness, this book is packed with stuff to know. The basics, from gearing up to choosing a site to building a tarp tent. Tasty outdoor recipes: Solar Oven Pizza, Chow Down Chili and s' more's of course--with 8 variations.Plus: how to keep a Field Journal, exploring the nighttime sky, creepy campfire stories, and when it's time to go home, leaving no trace. It's everything you need to pick up and head for the hills.For Ages 7 and up.

More than half of these projects for customizing and reinventing T-shirts require no sewing. Patterns are provided for 30 T-shirt projects, 30 tank top projects, 30 tube top projects, as well as a two-tiered skirt, pillows, leg-warmers, tablecloths, and braided rugs.

Take it away! "Jokelopedia" is the mother of all joke books--an all-encompassing, gut-busting collection of more than 1,700 jokes for every occasion. 59 elephant jokes, including "Why are elephants banned from pblic swimming pools They always drop their trunks." Dozens of knock-knock jokes, like "Knock, knock./ Who's there?/Raven./Raven who?/Raven lunatic who wants to knock your door down!" Plus teacher jokes, food jokes, gross jokes, and why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road jokes. And a whole section of tongue twisters, specializing in the yucky. Try saying "sneaking in my creaky squeaky reeking sneakers." but the jokes are just the beginning "Jokelopedia" is loaded with joke-telling tips and profiles of famously funny people, from Will Ferrell to SpongeBob SquarePants (Hey, wait--is SpongeBob really a person?)

The bestselling paper airplane book, completely updated and improved, features four new designs for a total of 20 designs and 112 models.

Bugs that walk on water. Bugs that consume billions of tons of dung a day. Bugs stealthy enough to steal prey from a spider web. Bugs that can grow to 2,700 times their original weight in just two weeks. Bugs that can reattach their own limbs-even a severed head. Bringing the weird world of "Bugs" to your fingertips, Fandex presents a field guide that marries vivid photographs of these beautiful and complex creatures with fascinating facts, stats, and lore about 47 insects, spiders, and other arthropods.

The perfect antidote to "Are we there yet???" Once kids get their hands on the travel-inspired projects in Origami On-The-Go, hours will fly by. Origami in itself is such an absorbing activity; add to it the pleasures of using vibrant custom papers to create unexpected animals and planes and cultural treasures, and the combination is a lifesaver (for parents), entertainment (for kids), and a great learning experience (good for parents and kids).

Using such materials as paper, plastic, metal, and cloth usually consigned to the recycling bin or the garbage can, a master crafter presents 40 craft projects that show budding artists how to make something beautiful and save the planet at the same time.

Illustrated, individually die-cut cards features hundreds of intriguing facts, statistics, and trivia, plus a tree identification guide and a cultural history of trees. 50 cards. Color photos & illustrations.

Written by the creator and host of "The Parent's Journal," the long-running, award-winning public radio show, this family bible of hands-on fun is a parent-friendly encyclopedia of more than 700 games and variations, with not a screen, plug, chip, disk, or battery in sight.

Large, bright die-cuts--often as big as the flower or even bigger--and true-to-life colors make this a foolproof way to identify 47 of North America's wildflowers. 50 color Fandex cards.

From the author of "Zobmondo!!," the adult party book of outrageous choices, comes this board game adaptation that serves up hundreds of bizarre, embarrassing, sometimes ethical and sometimes stomach-churning dilemmas that kids will love to pose to their friends and siblings.

A favorite subject of kids, nature lovers, scientists, and collectors, Butterflies takes full advantage of Fandex's unique full-color die-cut format to celebrate 50 butterfly species, from the enormous Queen Alexandra Birdwing, with its 11-inch wingspan, to the Blue Morpho, whose stunning metallic-blue color is caused by tiny prisms in its wings. Each entry includes the Latin name, range, plants used for laying eggs and drinking nectar, migration and mating habits, and how to recognize the species in its caterpillar, pupa, and adult stages. Includes 50 die-cut cards.