Serve up soup for any occasion with recipes from Cool Soups & Stews! Cook savory hot soups like chicken noodle or whip up a cool chilled cucumber soup. Cooking food at home is fun and easy. You can make each dish just how you like it. The best comfort food you can make is home cooked soup! Every recipe is kid-tested and also has photos for basic techniques, tools, and ingredients. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards....

Learn about the basics of fiber arts while creating cool stuff. The Cool Embroidery for Kids title teaches the first steps of how to embroider. Activities will help kids use what they learned to make a pretty picture frame, an awesome erasable note, a cool bookmark and more. Custom how-to photos and easy step-by-step instructions make crafting a blast.

Introduces baking breads and biscuits; identifies cooking terms, equipment, and ingredients; and shares recipes for such foods as morning muffin biscuits, molasses bread in a can, pepperoni pizza bread, and sweet potato bread.

Presents information about gardening indoors, discussing how to choose the right tools, start plants from seeds, and follow safety rules, with instructions for creating a plant container and setting up a mini desert garden.

Presents information about growing plants in hanging containers, discussing safety precautions and how to choose the right tools, soil, plants, and containers, with instructions for making containers, including one for upside-down plants.

Make a magical garden! Plant a fairy garden in your backyard. Grow enchanting plants. Set up fairy houses and furniture. This book will help you learn how. Make a whimsical and unique fairy garden. Then check out the other books in the Super Simple Gardening series. Dig into the world of gardening.

Introduces ways to practice good health and hygiene through hands-on activities, including simple recipes for toothpaste, body wash, and breathmints.

Crafters will cut, paint, and sew a new wardrobe with cool refashioned jeans. Create a winding circles necklace, a beaded belt, and painted bangles. Design a flower pin, a belt pack, a snack bag and more out of old denim. This book is full of easy-to-follow steps and bright photography for every activity.

Crafters will craft fashion items with cool refashioned hardware. Make a sparkly hinge bracelet, a hardware handbag, metal hex nuts shoes, duct taped headphones and more. This book is full of easy-to-follow steps and bright photography for every activity.

Become a fashion maven with materials found around the house! Crafters can use Cool Refashioned Odds & Ends to get started. Create a poncho out of a blanket. Make a magic wallet, a burlap tote bag, a puzzle bracelet, an e-reader case and more! This book is full of easy-to-follow steps and bright photography for every activity. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing,...