How to Blow Up Animals A Beginners Guide to Fun With Balloons
June 27, 2009 by Fun Crafts · Leave a Comment
How to Blow Up Animals A Beginners Guide to Fun With Balloons
Lon Cerel, the “world’s fastest balloon animal maker,” has written a how-to for all of us who wish we could make poodles, elephants, and such out of balloons the way Lon and some of his fellow artists do.
Here, in a highly-illustrated book that captures the fun of Cerel’s standup comedy-with-magic-and-ballooning act, are step-by-step instructions covering everything from how to correctly inflate the balloon without inflating your cheeks, through numerous rubber creatures, all the way to a few hats you can actually wear if you don’t mind being made fun of.
Featuring a “Forewarned” by the inimitable Henny Youngman, Cerel’s book comes with a coupon for 20 free balloons to get you started.
The book also features easy-to-understand illustrations cover to cover for all of the balloon sculptures.
Lon Cerel’s How To Blow Up Animals: A Beginner’s Guide to Fun with Balloons makes a great birthday gift, anniversary present, or the perfect gift for that person who has everything!
User Ratings and Reviews
1 Star Balloon Animals
I had an instructional balloon animal book growing up and I wanted to buy my 11 year old niece a book & balloons for her birthday. This book has half-way decent written instructions but has lousy illustrations. He shows you how to make a few animals including a dog and then explains how to make several animals variations from the basic dog balloon shape. [...].
2 Stars Not Inside
I bought this book because of the pictures on the cover. Turns out the animals I wanted to make were not in the book. This book didn’t help me at all.
5 Stars Guiness Book Balloon Artist
I’ve seen this guy perform! Lon Cerel is a genius performer and has written this book with his same flair and humor. He’s in the Guinness Book for the fastest balloon-artist; this book represents training from the best possible source!
5 Stars Great Book, Great Balloon Artist!
Lon Cerel is a great balloon artist and it is perfect that he has a book to help other people learn this difficult skill. I have personally received many of Lon’s creations. He is truely amazing and the book “ain’t so bad either”.
5 Stars Great for entertaining the kids! Great gift for young “performers”!
Perfect book for having fun with the kids on a rainy afternoon, or for being the hit of the kids birthday party… for that matter, it’s fun for adults, too! The kid in all of us likes ballon animals! Shows clear illustrations of HOW TO, plus a fair amount of humor to go along with! Lon Cerel is one of the top balloon animal makers in the country (as well as one of the busiest magicians) and he knows how to teach it better than anybody!
Phonemic Awareness Playing With Sounds to Strengthen Beginning Reading Skills
June 25, 2009 by Fun Crafts · Leave a Comment
Phonemic Awareness Playing With Sounds to Strengthen Beginning Reading Skills
This must-have resource for primary teachers includes dozens of fun activities that help children listen to language and play with sounds- essential readiness skills for phonics instruction. Activity cards can be cut out and laminated to create a handy reference file of fun ideas. A wide selection of reproducibles such as picture cards, word cards, and manipulatives are included. 128 pages.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Phonemic
Students really enjoy the activities that we have done so far. Been using it for intervention for K-1 grade.
5 Stars Phonemic Awareness
Good book. Easy to use. Lots of ideas for phonemic awareness activities that can be fit in when you have a few minutes to spare.
Margo Ross - kindergarten teacher
5 Stars This book rates more than 5 stars!
I am a reading specialist, and our school is just beginning a new intervention program for phonics. This book is indispensable for teaching phonological awareness. It has loads of activities for all the “rungs on the ladder” of the phonemic awareness continuum. These include activities for:
Words in a Sentence, Syllables, Rhyming, counting phonemes, etc. Blackline masters for pictures, etc., used in the activities are included. It also includes activities for teaching phonics (phonological awareness does not include printed letters, but phonics does include print.)
I highly recommend this book for teaching beginning reading skills.
5 Stars Phonics Awareness
This is an excellent resource for k-1 teachers. Full of engaging and thought provoking activities for young children. It makes learning fun!!
5 Stars Full of great ideas
This book is full of great ideas for literacy centers in the primary classroom. There are great pictures and games that several students can do on their own. This is a must have resource for those that teach early reading.
Crocheted Socks 16 Fun To Stitch Patterns
June 23, 2009 by Fun Crafts · Leave a Comment
Crocheted Socks 16 Fun To Stitch Patterns
If you thought handmade socks were just for knitters, think again! This wonderful collection of crocheted socks range in style from fun to fashionable.
Get Creative with Type Fun Typography Ideas and Tips for Scrapbooking
June 22, 2009 by Fun Crafts · Leave a Comment
Get Creative with Type Fun Typography Ideas and Tips for Scrapbooking
Cool solutions for page titles, journaling and more!–How do you create an eye-catching page title?–How do you make your journaling look fantastic on your layout?–What cool things can you do with fonts, letter stickers, stamps and even your own handwriting?We’ll show you how to do all this an more with designer tips for great typography from Creating Keepsakes magazine’s editor-in-chief Brian Tippetts.
If Youre Trying to Teach Kids How to Write YouVe Gotta Have This Book Ip 62 5
June 20, 2009 by Fun Crafts · Leave a Comment
If Youre Trying to Teach Kids How to Write YouVe Gotta Have This Book Ip 62 5
The handbook at the top of every required resource list–a how-to book for understanding and working with the whole writing process, an at-your-fingertips source of ideas for starting specific activities, and a ready-when-you’re-in-need manual for solving writing problems.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars The title says it all!
This is a great resource for any teacher who wants to inform his/her writing instruction in their classroom. I feel that this book helped me plan purposeful and authentic writing experiences for my students. A must have!
5 Stars Super teaching help!
This book helps teachers explore the art of teaching with children. It has many teacher friendly lesson plans that coordinate well with 6 Traits teaching.
4 Stars A Good “Starter” Book
This is not an in-depth, philosophical treatment of writing (though some may say the author accomplishes it indirectly), but an example after example fun activity tool for teachers–sprinkled with nuggets of wisdom throughout. For those who find such things useful (I don’t necessarily) this latest edition includes rubrics, portfolio assessment, and writing across the curriculum. Even if you find only a small portion helpful, the purchase is worth the price. Suitable for primary through middle school.
A Non-Workbook, Non-Textbook Approach to Teaching Language Arts: Grades 4 Through 8 and Up
5 Stars Teaching Writing
I found this to be one of the most useful books for teaching writing skills. It is loaded with ideas that can be used in the classroom and can be used with teaching teachers how to teach writing skills. This book has some of the most creative and effective ideas I have seen in a long time. In fact I loaned it to someone about a year ago and have not seen it since. This demonstrates its quality. It is an easy read with samples that one can use in class forever. I recommend it highly.
5 Stars excellent resource for upper-elementary writing teachers
This book provides numerous ideas and suggestions for creative and purposeful writing activities for upper elementary level students. The activities are easy to intergrate in a busy classroom, can be adapted for different grade and ability levels, and the kids love them!
