Books in Dover Children's Activity Books series

Finally, a beginning cookbook designed especially for children — and one that adds the fun of coloring to the joy of cooking. A First Cookbook for Children contains a wide variety of yummy, mouth-watering recipes that kids love and love to fix: cheeseburgers, chicken, pizza, salads, sauces, desserts, dips, and much more.Assuming no previous cooking experience, the author gently guides the reader from start to finish with special sections on muffins, cakes, meat loaf, chicken, dips & dunks, corn bread, scalloped potatoes, biscuits, salads, hamburgers, fish, cookies, macaroni & cheese, pancakes, candies, dressings, pizza, baked ham, crudités, and rice.Simple, easy-to-follow instructions plus clear explanations of ingredients and utensils take a child through each step of food preparation and actual cooking. A helpful introduction includes lists of necessary equipment and basic ingredients along with five sample menus. A fun first cookbook for kids ages 10 and up, this volume offers 60 sure-to-please recipes.

A squirrel makes its way along a snake's slippery body, a happy face can be found among the pebbles in desert sand, and a mini-ladder lies on the sides of a beaver lodge. Sound unlikely? Not in this fun-filled collection of hidden pictures!Young puzzle fans are challenged to discover objects hidden in thirteen delightful nature scenes. Each colorable, full-page puzzle is accompanied by captions and pictures of the objects in the drawing. Solutions are provided.

Children of all ages will delight in this collection of 16 space-age gliders direct from the twenty first century. They're easy to put together with scissors, tape, and a paper clip, and best of all — they really fly.With this book you can build and launch a whole fleet of colorful spacecraft: Orbital Zoom Glider; Intruder; Routefinder; Supercontinental; Space Searcher; Space Sentinel; Star Shuttle; Star Giant; Signal Link; Star Transporter; Space Ram; Star Probe; Skycat; Star Cruiser; Lunar Freighter; and Star Link.To assemble the space ships, just follow the simple step-by-step instruction and explanatory diagrams. Each ship has its own folding sequence, and folds are numbered to insure correct folding.Cut and fold spaceships are fun to make and fly (helpful hints on flying are included) or they can be suspended on threads for room decorations. Either way, these spaceworthy fliers are sure to delight the countless young fans of Star Wars and Star Trek.

In 2010, Burj Khalifa achieved the title of Tallest Building in the World. The 2,717-foot structure, located in downtown Dubai, has 160 habitable floors and can accommodate more than 12,000 people. Its 54 elevators take only 60 seconds to reach the world's highest observation deck on the 124th floor. Suitable for ages 10 and up with adult supervision, this two-foot-high replica model of the ultramodern building appeals to hobbyists of all ages and makes a great family activity. Complete, easy-to-follow instructions include detailed diagrams for ease of assembly.

Travel back in time to help prehistoric Maisaur hatchlings find their way back to the nest. Show a lost Apatosaur how to join its migrating herd. Feed a hungry Mosasaurus a fishy snack, and find your way past a grinning Carnosaur without getting snagged on his pointy teeth!These 37 fun-to-navigate mazes are geared toward readers ages 4 to 8. Complete solutions appear at the end, so no one will get stuck in the past!

As children meander through 32 labyrinthine paths, they'll become acquainted with countries and cultures all over the world. That's because each fun-to-follow maze — in the shapes of France, China, India, Great Britain, Egypt, Ireland, and many other countries — includes fascinating facts from each land. While "traveling" through Spain, for example, young explorers will discover flamenco dancers, Pablo Picasso, a matador, Don Quixote, and lush olive groves. Each page is ready to color for added entertainment. And just in case kids lose their way on their world travels, solutions are included!

From creating artificial pearls to building a steam boiler, these vintage projects for indoors and outdoors offer a tremendous range of possibilities. Over 250 classic plans and instructions explain how to make model airplanes, greeting cards, a motion-picture camera, a radiophone, a cipher code, motor-driven sleds, and other projects. Drawn from the best of Popular Mechanics magazines from the 1910s and '20s, they combine the excitement and satisfaction of building and creating with the lasting value of learning the practical applications of scientific principles.The step-by-step instructions are accompanied by charming drawings and photos that clearly illustrate each project. Girls and boys will be captivated by these antique instructions and plans, and adults will appreciate the projects' nostalgic appeal.

With each of these 25 puzzles, you'll scrutinize the works of Renoir, van Gogh, Manet, and other great artists. When you compare accurate reproductions with clever counterfeits, you'll pick out dozens of subtle — and sometimes funny! — giveaways. You'll also uncover fun facts about the artists and paintings, from Seurat's The Circus to David's The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries. Includes solutions.

This uniquely entertaining board book is designed for preschoolers and early readers. Kids will love mixing colorful pictures of Willy the weird werewolf, Dudley the deadly dragon, Burt the broken beast, and other humorous characters to make odd match-ups with tongue-twisting descriptions. Over 100 possibilities for crazy monster combinations promise hilarious mix-and-match fun.

Within every drop of pond water lurks an invisible world, alive with an amazing variety of microscopic animals. And with the help of this book and a microscope, you can bring these tiny creatures into focus and discover the ways in which they live.You'll trace the path of a blob-like amoeba as it stretches out its pseudopods to hunt and gobble up its prey, and you'll see the life-or-death water ballet of a slipper-shaped paramecium as it swims away from its mortal enemy, the pincushion-shaped suctorian. You'll also meet the euglena, classified as both plant and animal; the rotifer, a creature with two wheels of whirling hairlike projections that help it move by squeezing in and out like an accordion; and the incredible hydra, a fearsome bully that constantly threatens other small animals with its crown of grasping tentacles.With this book, your key to the world of single-celled organisms, you'll learn fascinating lessons about how these strange animals eat, reproduce, and defend themselves. Enter their microscopic domain and see for yourself!

Ready to have your mind boggled? World-famous puzzle master Martin Gardner has provided more than 100 ways to give your little gray cells a workout. These unusual puzzles, many of them original, include palindromes, anagrams, rebuses, and logic puzzles. Their whimsical illustrations contain occasional clues and plenty of humor. If you're stumped, you can consult the back of the book for complete solutions. Martin Gardner was renowned for his "Mathematical Games" columns in Scientific American, which he wrote for 25 years. Acclaimed by Newsweek as "The Magician of Math," he published more than 70 books on subjects ranging from science and math to poetry and religion.