Brought to you by Melitsa of Raising Playful Tots and Cathy of NurtureStore, along with some of our favourite bloggers and authors, the Spring Learning Through Play special offer is now open – but for April 8th to April 14th only.
This special offer had now finished. All the books and resources are still available from the original authors – click through on each book’s link to get your copy.
We have put together a package worth over $130 – but available to you at a very special price – of e-books and resources, all based around Learning Through Play. This Spring Special Offer includes books, resources and an on-line course, and covers sensory play, outdoor play, art and crafts, positive parenting, learning to read and write, math and lots more. There’s so much in the bundle it will give you ideas to use with your children all spring and summer long. You’ll recognize the authors as the writers of some of your favorite blogs – check out the full details below to see who’s joining in.
Learning Through Play Spring special offer
This special bundle of books is available for you to buy only between April 8th and April 14th. So buy it now or you’ll miss the deal!
I’ve read the books (and written one of them!) and I’m so happy to recommend this offer to you. These ladies really know their stuff and the books and resources are packed full of fantastic creative and practical ideas that you can use with your children. There are sixteen different authors joining in, bringing you over $130 worth of resources. And, guess what – you can buy the lot for just $9.99!
Read on to see all the items included in the spring special offer – and start looking forward to getting your copies!
The Garden Classroom by Cathy James of NurtureStore
The Garden Classroom brings you fifty-two creative and playful outdoor activities, giving you a whole year’s worth of garden-based projects to enjoy with your children. Value $9.99
ScienceArts by MaryAnn Kohl of Process Art & Treasures of Childhood
ScienceArts inspires children to explore the world of science through art with open-ended experiments. 141 pages of art experiments amaze & delight children as they discover the magic of crystals, light, constellations, plants and more. All scientific reactions and concepts explained. Value $9.99
The Playful Family by Shawn Fink of Awesomely Awake
The Playful Family encourages and challenges busy parents to slow down and spend quality time together with their children, regardless of their age. With nearly 100 ways to connect, engage and play together this easy-to-read e-book is a must-have resource for any parent interested in becoming more playful and happy while raising children. Value $4.99
Connecting Family through Creative Play e-Workshop by Gina Kimmel of Connecting Family & Seoul and Katherine Lockett of Creative Playhouse
Connecting Family through Creative Play is a 30 day e-Workshop designed for families who wish to connect with their children on a daily basis through simple, creative play. These ideas are perfect for parents looking to find a balance between the everyday responsibilities and connecting with your child in meaningful ways that fit into your family’s daily rhythm. You will receive daily messages from us in your inbox with inspirations to play, ideas for connection, and resources to help spark your imagination, including access to a private Facebook community. {Please note this course is running April 29th 2013 to May 28th 2013 only and you must register on the course before May 15th 2013} Value $25
Alphabet Glue: Volumes Nine through Eleven by Annie Riechmann of Bird and Little Bird
Alphabet Glue is a downloadable e-magazine for families who love books, and aims to help more families to incorporate creativity, imagination and all things literary into their everyday routines. Each issue contains leveled book recommendations organized by theme, bookmaking tutorials, story-building activities, and hands-on projects that complement favorite titles in children’s literature or teach basic elements of science. Value $11
Alphabet Summer Learning Pack by Erin Wing of Small Types
The Alphabet Summer Learning Pack is a collection of flexible summer learning ideas organized around an “A to Z” theme. Use these resources to prevent the dreaded “summer slide” and build fun learning routines into your summer plans. Ideas are simple and flexible, so families can pick and choose the activities that work for their particular child and schedule. They provide opportunities to practice key literacy and math skills, and they leave plenty of time for lemonade stands and sand castles. Value $7
Pink and Green Mama Crafts: Backyard FUN by MaryLea Harris of Pink and Green Mama
Backyard FUN brings you 13 Art Lessons and Craftivities to create your own Backyard Fun Camp at home or in your classroom with step-by-step instructions, supply lists, and full color photos. The supplies for these fun and easy projects will come from your own art and craft stash, garage, hardware store, and recycling bin! Value $10
Alphabet Crafts by Allison McDonald of No Time For Flash Cards
Alphabet Crafts lets you create the alphabet from A-Z with fun crafts that promote more than just letter recognition. Kids will love making their own alphabet and forget that they are learning in the process. With 5 exclusive crafts never published on No Time For Flash Cards. Value $8
Alphabet Games by Malia Hollowell of Playdough to Plato
The Alphabet Mega Pack includes 12 hands-on games that teach children to recognize the names and sounds of letters – skills that are important for learning how to read. Each activity includes easy to follow parent instructions and helpful photos. The games are addictively fun for kids AND their families! Value $6
Raising a Creative Kid: Simple Strategies for Igniting and Nurturing that Creative Spark by Jillian Riley of A Mom with a Lesson Plan
Raising a Creative Kid will help you raise a creative thinker by simply setting up a creative environment, using intentional language, and nurturing mistakes. This easy read is full tips and tricks that will help you transform your environment into a creativity growth center. Value $7.99
5 minute reading tricks for raising rockstar readers by Amy Mascott of teach mama
Fifteen 5-minute reading tricks that cover everything from teaching names to what parents should say during read-alouds, from learning sight words to reading fluently. It’s about rolling out the red carpet for our rockstar readers. Now. Whomever you are, wherever you are, no matter how busy you are. Value $10
Parenting with Positive Guidance: Building Discipline from the Inside Out by Amanda Morgan of Not Just Cute
Parenting with Positive Guidance gives you the tools for understanding your child’s behavior and effectively teaching and guiding your child toward increased self-control while fostering a healthy parent-child relationship. 100+ pages of information you can start using today! Value $9
Treasure Basket Play by Melitsa Avila of Raising Playful Tots
Treasure Basket Play lets you learn step by step how to make your own natural sensory baby play activity with a Treasure Basket. Includes case studies and interview with a sensory play expert on using Treasure Baskets. Value $8.95
Play Grow Learn Issue 2 by Christie Burnett of Childhood 101
Issue 2 of Play Grow Learn is packed full of playful fun with 55 pages and over 100 activity ideas. Includes ideas for creating family stories with internationally acclaimed author Hazel Edwards, an exclusive full colour, printable sea themed bingo game, 12 pages of active and outdoor play ideas, recipes, art, literacy, creativity, construction, imaginative play, books and more! Value $4
Spring Literacy and Math Activities and Games by Christine Lanyon of Scribble Doodle and Draw
Spring Literacy and Math Activities and Games includes 15 fun learning center ideas. Skills worked on include, addition to 8, patterns, counting to 20, measurement, number sequencing, abc order, writing 3 letter words, rhyming, syllables, compound words and more. Value $8
How to buy and download the bundle
You can buy the bundle on any device, including computer, Apple, Android and portable devices. You can buy it anywhere in the world. You’ll get an instant download of the books and resources so you can start enjoying them straight away. The bundle will be sent to the e-mail address associated with your paypal account. The delivery system gives you 9 attempts at download within 120 hours, so you can buy now and do the download a little later if you prefer.
A note about mobile devices
Depending on the apps you have installed and your operating system you might be able to go ahead and download each book on your mobile device but if you have any doubts or problems, we recommend you use a computer to download the books and then share them to your mobile devices.
What a fantastic giveaway! I would like to know if I would be able to giveaway on my blog any of these where I already have a copy?
Ooh, that’s an interesting idea Amie. I think you would have to ask the individual authors of the books you’d plan to give away – I wouldn’t like to say yes on anyone else’s behalf. (They’d also be able to let you have any extra info and images.)
Thanks Cathy, it does make sense to ask the individual author before I did a giveaway. Thanks for your reply 🙂
I have purchased the bundle, but could you tell me exactly how I get them from the computer to the iPad? I thought it would be like the last time I bought from you where I could open it on the iPad and put it straight into my eReader, but then I saw the note, and now that I have the books, I’m not sure how to transfer them.
Hi Sarah. If you put the files that you’ve got on your computer on google drive or dropbox and then access google drive or dropbox on your ipad and they will sync for you. But if you have any problems with this, please reply to the e-mail that gave you the bundle link and Melitsa will be able to give you a brand new link so you can download straight onto you ipad.
Once purchased, can I put these on my Kindle?
Hi Emily. I’ve just check with Melitsa who tells me: Yes although the formatting might not be right for everyone. You’ll lose the colour on some kindles, but some people have kindle pdf editions for this reason. All the files have to be separate though ( out of the zip) and uploaded.
Hi Emily, I just bout this, downloaded the file on my Mac, but my computer says,
“The file “spring_bundle-1.zip.download” doesn’t appear to be a valid download file.”
Can you help? I’m really excited about this bundle!
Thanks, Mama E
Sorry, not Emily, but Melitsa, thanks!
Hi There, just wanted you to know that we tried another computer (not Apple) and it worked. Thanks so much! Can’t wait! : )
Hi can you help, I have paid for these twice once on my husbands paypal account, and i got a message saying it did not work on the merchants side. So I paid on my paypal account and it went through fine. My husband has now had a message to say it went through his account anyway? We need his refunding and I dont know how to do it?
Thanks
rach
Hi Rach, I’m going to pass your details through to Melitsa who is handling all the admin and she will sort this for you.
Hi. I bought this package this past week and opened it on my laptop but apparently didn’t save it. Can you send me the link again please? Thanks so much! Love all you do!
Sorry! I found it! Thanks again!
Glad you found it Melissa – hope you enjoy all the resources.
Tried to purchase bundle. Still the 14th. Bummed.
Oh Heather! Time zones are tricky to manage. Here in the UK it was already the 14th. Hope you clicked through to one of the US sites and got your bundle.
Hello Cathy,
I was very interested in the spring bundle, but I have had problem updating my data in paypal yesterday. Is it possible to still buy today. It would be great. Thanks, Cristiane
I’m so sorry Cristiane, but the sale has now finished. There’s so much to pull together behind the scenes that we have to stick with the times. All the books are still available individually if there is one you especially wanted, and we hope to run a simliar offer in the future.