New Item: 15 easy folktale finger plays

These charming folktales will captivate and delight young children; especially because they can participate in telling the folktales. This book has fun ideas for telling folktales while using your fingers and hands to act them out. The book is a hands-on guide for storytellers, teachers, and parents.

Highlight: Teaching ART with Books Kids Love

This is an activity book offered at PERC for you to teach your child Art! There are many great ideas within this book for you to use.
Using more than 100 illustrations and award-winning children's books, this creative resource provides educators with all the tools necessary for teaching art. The information, examples, project directions, and variety of choices provide everything for teachers and parents who a 
re looking for fresh ideas.

PERC Volunteer Spotlight: Krisann

QUIXO

"This is one of my favorite games to play. This game is similar to Tic-Tac-Toe; but, you must get 5 X's or O's in a row to win. I think it's fun because you never know where your X or O will end up, it can be tricky at times. Play it, you may like it too." -Krisann Moleni

Highlight: Riddle Books and More!

 Find the items listed in the rhyme, or make up your own. The list will have you searching endlessly for them!  These riddle books will be fun and it will fill the mind with solving and finding an "item" in the picture.We have many riddle books in the Thinking and Reasoning section of PERC. Here are a few:

PERC Volunteer Spotlight: Angelina

Spot it!
A fun thinking and reasoning game.

"I love spot it because it is fun to play with both kids and adults. It doesn't take long to learn how to play and yet it doesn't get boring fast because there are multiple ways to play." -Angelina Sieber

New Item: Battleship Boardgame

Do you have what it takes to command your own fleet of five ships? Can you survive thrilling, ruthless combat on the high seas? Find out with this classic naval combat game. This game is all about sinking your opponents ships. The first player to sink all the other players ships wins the game!

FREE ITEMS

Right outside of the PERC door, are boxes of FREE PERC items that PERC is giving away. There are books, a poster, 'element' cards, and VHS tapes.

Here is a list of some of the topics of the FREE books:

1. Growing up
2. Parenthood
3. Happy Child
4. Children
5. The Family
6. Raising Kids
7. Proud Parents
8. Grandparents
9. Dads are special
10. The Husband
11. Scolding
12. Someone else's kids
13. Raising Children
14. Marriage
15. Self-guided program to succesful parenthood
16. Gold medal family
17. Surviving
18. Being a parent
19. Positive parenting
20. Inner Parent
21. Effective responsible parents and children
22. Bonding
23. Parent test
24. Good kid book.

The Poster is a "Food Web" Poster.

Element cards are laminated and include some elements like Zinc, Copper, Nitrogen, Neon.

The VHS tapes include Preschool and Values

If you haven't stopped by PERC and seen what's outside the door: Or if any of these topics interests you, stop outside of PERC and have a look. You will gain more knowledge and an item or two.