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Show PAGE 10 CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE Educational Gifts Kids Will Love By Amanda Knolcs educational gifts for is easier today than You'll find many and entertaining products at unique and specialty bookstores toy stores, stores. Many discount chains and gift shops also carry creative kits that are fun as well as educational. Go Weather is an interactive kit with more than 20 activities revolving around the weather. Children learn to build a barometer, weather vane, rain gauge and hydrometer. Kids will be fascinated as they learn about rainbows, clouds, lightning and rain storms. If your child is enchanted with nature give him a ladybug garden, an ant farm or a kit for growing silkworms. The Discovery Store offers the Butterfly Jungle Habitat. Children receive live Painted Lady caterpillars by mail, then watch them transform into beautiful butterflies. The kit includes everything needed as well as a colorful jungle environment. The Exploration Aquarium features a uniquely designed underwater scope that lets children observe fish behavior and anatomy as if they were inside the aquarium. It comes with an air pump, hose, water dechlorinator, food sampler, natural colored stones and instructions. It's recommended for goldfish, guppies and betas. Kids can learn the facts about teleastronomy with a inforscope and a book or chart with mation on the sun, moon and stars. Bookstores and toy stores carry numerous activity books that teach children all sorts of fascinating facts about nature, architecture, science, art, etc. Budding artists will love an easel u ith colored chalk or a drawing pad and tools for creating collages, water colors, or mixed media pictures. Learning about the human body becomes fun when the fundamentals of anatomy are presented in a coloring h k. While coloring in the heart, liver brain, your child will learn cation and function of the the nost important organs as well body as tl names of bones, function of must s. etc. Main stores offer paper crafts that teach sids to create animals, flowers and icr shapes from colorful construe; a paper, shiny metallic paper and ier materials. Most include follow instruction booklets as easy-i- t well safety scissors. A puppet theater offers children a chance to create their own puppets from fabrics and modeling compounds. The box assembles as a stage and many kits also include different backdrops for changing the scenery'. Barn of Crafts offers children with active imaginations a chance to Finding explore their creativity in many different ways. It includes feathers, chenille craft sticks, stems, sequins, modeling clay, beads, buttons, cord, dough cutters, glue pens all WonderFoam and an in packed plastic barrel. re easy-to-sto- The Imagination Desk from Leapfrog features coloring books with learning activities designed for children age three and up. Pages feature characters and stories that include games, music and educational lessons about the alphabet, the world, etc. A Count and Sing snap-i- n template for games and music teaches kids to count. Additional pages can be downloaded from the Internet. 3-- D child-size- : 1 child-size- a- i d d deUghting0diildren 'nvite Youn9 readers, and those who read to young readers, to enjoy the and Bi9 wi99,ey eYes wide SeleCtion of titleS found at Bitter Creek Books-o- f adults for decades. The Art Science. A Pop-U- p Adventure in Art is aimed at children from 9 12. It explores the collaborations of art and science through the years and features artists biographies as well as explanations of important scientific concepts. Check art museum gift shops and other specialty stores for Imperial Book of Faberge Surprises: A Pop-UMasterpieces. Little ones will be fascinated with the stories and legends surrounding elaborately designed Faberge eggs. Along with six pop-u- p eggs, the book includes 50 color illustrations. You'll find numerous other pop-u- p books and interactive books exploring the lives of famous artists, architects and fashion designers. Little girls will love putting together a Victorian dollhouse. The Victorian Mansion includes detachable pieces that can be moved around the interior, prov iding hours of fun. Have an inquisitive little detective in the house? The Whodunit Forensics Lab from the Discovery Store teaches children how science is used to fight crime. I.ab instruments included in the kit are used to analyze handwTit-ing- , decipher blood type and examine mysterious fibers. You and your child can solve six fascinating cases togeth-- fleet of model boats made completely of waterproof paper. Featuring 18 boats from differ- ent eras, its a fun way to explore nau- ready-to-assemb- le Copyright (c) 2003 Publishers-Edg- e p three-dimension- al 3-- D er. The Bug Blast Book and Game from Museum Company includes a game board, 36 quiz cards, bug playing pieces, zany illustrations and hundreds of fascinating facts about the world of creepy crawly things. The Amazing Book of Paper Boats, also from Museum Company, includes a 684 W. 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