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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

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“You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read with a child.” – Dr. Seuss

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Dr. Seuss has captured the hearts of the young and old with his whimsical rhymes, imaginative illustrations and zany characters. A child is never too young to introduce Dr. Seuss’ poetic meter. Reading to babies and young children helps with brain development and fosters a bonding experience with families. Dr. Seuss mastered the repetition of sound throughout his stories, which makes his books perfect for beginner readers learning to connect sounds and letters to form words and sentences. Wacky plots and tongue twisters make his books thoroughly entertaining, inspires creative thinking and promotes pre-reading skills. Dr. Seuss’ stories, such as The Lorax, also teach valuable life lessons; whether it’s about responsibility for the environment, never giving up or being true to yourself.

Celebrate Dr. Seuss’with a FREE gift! Every new member will receive a free Dr. Seuss Reading & Growth chart for a limited time with promo code “BIRTHDAY”. Show young readers how they can grow with books! Record reading milestones while you mark your child’s growth inch by inch. The Reading & Growth chart comes with Dr. Seuss stickers to personalize your child’s name and the Dr. Seuss books he or she has read. Don’t miss out on this terrific keepsake and fantastic Dr. Seuss books at a great value.

Notes: Each month you will benefit from receiving 3 more Dr. Seuss™ & His Friends storybooks to review and enjoy. If you decide to keep them, they are yours for just $5.99 per book plus a small shipping and handling charge. Cancel anytime, simply return them to us at your expense with a note marked “cancel,” and we’ll gladly refund the purchase price.

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Free Book Spring Crafts For Kids

Spring is in the air. Snow is turning to rain; the sun staying out longer; and there are birds, butterflies, and bees in the air again. It’s a wonderful time of year as nature wakes up from its long winter slumber. Celebrate the return of warm weather and flowers by creating your very own colorful decorations to the natural decorations outside. The awesome crafts in this free eBook will help you create fun flowers and beautiful butterflies, and much more. Kids of all ages (and parents will love these awesome projects.

Shake off those winter blues by making any one of these awesome crafts in this eBook, Spring Crafts for Kids: 17 Flower Crafts, Butterfly Crafts, and More. You’ll discover great recycled projects, easy spring crafts, crafts for preschoolers, and paper flower projects. With this eBook, it will be super easy to decorate your home in all the amazing colors of spring. What’s even better is these crafts are perfect for doing with your kids and even for crafting outside. Everyone is sure to love helping create these lovely projects just as much as you’ll love decorating your home with them.

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Flower Crafts

  • Fingerprint Bouquet
  • Spring Thumbprint Hyacinth
  • Downy Blooming Spring Flower
  • Egg Carton Daffodils
  • I Pick You Spring Treat
  • Soda Can Flowers
  • Water Bottle Flower Power

Butterfly Crafts

  • Watercolor-ful Doily Butterflies
  • Beaded Butterfly Beauty
  • Happy Handprint Butterfly Bag
  • Preschool Yarn Butterflies

Vases and More Spring Crafts

  • Spring has Sprung Flower Vase
  • Ladybug CDs
  • Thanks a Bunch Flower Pot
  • Garden Stakes

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Free eBook – Spring has sprung! Celebrate the beginning of warmer weather and the end of winter with this amazing free eBook, Spring Crafts for Kids 17 Flower Crafts, Butterfly Crafts, and More. Fill your house and backyard with these colorful flowers and butterfly crafts.

Happy crafting!
Emily, Editor of AllFreeKidsCrafts

 

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Free Kindle And Free Books For Your PC, Smartphone or Tablet

Would you like a free Kindle? A new Kindle eReader will cost anywhere from about $70 to several hundreds. But you can get the Kindle app free! The free Kindle app is almost as good as having a Kindle! Maybe even better.

A Kindle is a great device to have. You can carry it, and your library, around with you wherever you go. The Kindle app gives you all the same content for your PC or other device. The only difference is that you would be reading your books on your computer monitor, Smartphone screen or tablet. Smartphones, laptops and tablets are quite portable so you still have the advantage of being able to carry your library around with you.

An advantage to the Kindle app is that you will always have access to upgrades. You don’t have to keep buying the bigger and better Kindle.

The free Kindle app gives you access to an almost unlimited selection of books. The content available for kindle is growing steadily as more books are added. E-books can be purchased through Amazon.com. Many books are free

Free Books For Your Kindle App

You can find lots of free books for your Kindle app. Many books are in the public domain. For example, Project Gutenberg makes available over 45,000 free books!

Free Kindle app can be used on your:

Smartphone

PC/Mac

Laptop

Tablet

You can also use the Kindle Cloud Reader to view your books in a web based browser.

Get Free Books From Amazon!

kindleWhen you go to get your free Kindle app do a search on Amazon for “free Kindle books”. I tried this myself and got over 95,000 results. The listing of free books changes often. If you find a book you want it is best to grab it right away. A particular book may be offered free for only a short time before it is back to normal price. Since the listing of free books changes it is fun to check back to see what new books are offered.

Amazon Also Has Great Prices & Selections

According to Amazon, the site offers:

“Millions of books, newspapers, and magazines, including the latest best sellers, Kindle Singles, and more.”

“over 400,000 Kindle exclusive titles that you won’t be able to find anywhere else, including books by best-selling authors ”

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Download and read first chapters for free before you decide to buy.

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Collecting Antique and Vintage Toys

Collecting is definitely one of the most popular hobbies and there are almost as many different types of collectibles as there are collectors! Practically anything can become a collectible item, but one of the most commonly collected objects are actually toys. People of all ages seem to love toys, especially those toys from around the time that they themselves were children.

Collecting toys, for many, is more than just a fun hobby, it is an investment. A lot of the older toys are very rare, especially in the better conditions and/or with the original packaging. Naturally, the better condition a toy is in and whether or not it still has the original packaging heavily influences its value.

Collectors spend a lot of money to get certain toys to add to their collections. In 1988 the an auction was held at the Perlman Toy Museum in Philadelphia and over $5,000,000 in toys were sold in under 24 hours!

Vintage "Fonz" metal lunch box
Vintage Lunch Box

Often toy collections are handed down from one generation to the next. Sometimes the receiver of the toy collection loves and appreciates toys as much as the one who passed them down, while other heirs will sale the toys at auction. Some of the largest toy collection in the world were amassed by two or more generations of collectors.

Although collecting vintage toys can be a great investment there are many people who aren’t concerned so much about the monetary value as they are the sentimental value. For many people collecting toys is a way to hold on to their youth and keep a bit of the fun alive in their lives. As an example a friend of mine has a huge collection of action figures, most of which he has had since he was a child. Now, even though he has long since “grown up”, he continues to add more action figures to his collection. He says he wouldn’t consider selling any of his older toys because of their sentimental value.

Action figures and Barbie Dolls are some of the most collected types of toys.

Barbie Doll was created in 1959
Barbie Doll 1959

The Barbie Doll was created in 1959 and did not have bendable legs. An original 1959 Barbie Doll fetched nearly $26,000 at auction! While most Barbie Dolls wouldn’t bring that much there are many of them that would sell for hundreds, or even thousands of dollars. Over the years there were a lot of Barbie clothing and accessories that were produced. Quite often this clothing and many of the accessories can actually be worth more than the Barbie Doll itself.

In 1964 executives of Hasbro decided to emulate the great success of the Barbie Doll with young boys. They introduced the GI Joe as the boys alternative to Barbie. For the first time boys began to “play” with dolls on a wide scale. It was OK though, the GI Joe was an action figure, not a doll.

In recent decades a new type of toy hit the scene and has now become quite a collectible. How many of you collect toys from restaurant kids meals such as McDonalds Happy Meal? A full set of a particular series can often bring double the price or even more than was paid for them and you got burgers, fries and a drink to boot! Once a series is discontinued it can become quite difficult to locate those missing from your collection, especially if you insist on “mint in bags”. Serious collectors will often spend $5 to $10 for that one toy they need to complete a set. Of course some of the older “happy meal” toys from the 70s and 80s are worth much more than that.

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