Celebrate fall’s arrival and liven up learning with "Around-the-Year" Apple Tree Hats, Personal Pumpkin Pouches, and Collaborative Harvest Quilts! Kids will love making these and other unique craft projects while learning about life cycles, harvest, five senses, classifying, patterning, and more! Other projects include Edible Apple Glyphs, Pumpkin Piñatas, Johnny Appleseed Faces, and "Feed the Birds" Harvest Houses. Activities use easy-to-find materials and include complete how-to’s and tips, reproducible patterns, and literature links. 56 pages.
Lammas: Celebrating the Fruits of the First Harvest
Although it has a fascinating history, little is known about Lammas (or Lughnasa), one of the eight festivals of the witches' Wheel of the Year. Celebrated in early August to mark the beginning of harvest, it comes from the Irish Gaelic nasad (games) of Lugh (a leading Celtic deity and hero). Lammas helps you celebrate with recipes, incense, spells, traditional types of divination, and several full rituals, some never before published.
Traffic jams, news stands, and theater fans, oh my! Check out eight action-packed scenes to see what happens during a full day in a busy city. Peek inside a school, an apartment building, a theater, a museum, and more. Keep your eye on the clock too. By spending a whole day in a city, you can watch events unfold from morning to night.
The olive harvest in Israel is a special time. Follow the tiny spring flowers blossom into green fruit, then ripen into shiny black olives. Watch as the olives are gathered, sorted, and pressed into oil. Then celebrate Hanukkah with an Israeli family as they use the oil to light their Hanukkah menorah. Come and enjoy the harvest of light.