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55 playful experiments that encourage tinkering, curiosity, and creative thinking from the creator of Tinkerlab.com - hands-on activities that explore art, science, and more. For children two and up.Kids are natural tinkerers. They experiment, explore, test, and play, and they learn a great deal about problem-solving through questions and hands-on experiments. They don't see lines between disciplines; rather, they notice interesting materials and ideas that are worth exploring. This book is about creative experiments, in all fields, that help kids explore the world.Children gravitate toward sensory experiences (playing with slime) , figuring out how things work (taking toys apart) , and testing the limits of materials (mixing a tray of paint together until it makes a solid mass of brown) .



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Rachelle Doorley

Art Educator Rachelle Doorley is the founder of TinkerLab.com, a website that advocates for creative self-expression. Rachelle holds a Masters in Education from Harvard University in Arts Education and a BA from UCLA in Theater Design. Prior to founding TinkerLab, she was an elementary and middle school art teacher, oversaw education programs in art museums, and was a costumer for Warner Brothers and Universal Studios. She's in her second term as an Artist in Residence in the Cubberley Artist Studio Program, Palo Alto. Rachelle has written articles on creativity and arts education for School Arts Magazine, Real Simple Magazine, and FamilyFun Magazine. She lives on the Stanford campus with her husband and her two curious daughters.



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