Twenty-six engaging, colorful, seasonal projects will brighten your classroom and bring a big grin to your students faces! While your children enjoy the process of creating these familiar figures, you will be building a firm foundation for students visual-motor skills, a necessary prerequisite for cognitive development. These cut-and-create projects have also been designed to reinforce basic math skills including grouping, ordering and spacial orientation. Simple, illustrated, step-by-step instructions and patterns are included for each project.
Nancee Jean McClure has been an illustrator and a developer of materials for children since 1975. After receiving a master’s degree in art education, teaching school and working as art director for a publisher of educational materials, she started her own company, The Good Neighbor Press, Inc. The Good Neighbor Press handles the development, illustration and production of materials for young children and educators of young children.
Nancee and her family live in Colorado, where they enjoy the benefits of small town living and beautiful surroundings.