Early Childhood Education

Activities around Science and Craft - to make your children play and learn together and that too from simple materials or trash you throw away.

Children from the very beginning should be encouraged and persuaded to make use of their heads and hands. Read this book and try making the toys on your own. Going through this book, if you don't understand something, think it over, apply your own mind and try something on your own and by yourself. If what you make does not quite look like the toy shown in the book, but but works, the same way or differently, this is even better.

This book is a collation of some interesting activities - geometry by paper folding, toys, tangrams, pumps, caps, experiments, and simple science models. These activities are interspersed with inspiring stories on education, peace, environment and mathematics. More than one thousand line drawings illustrate the text. This book follows no strict order or hierarchy. It is not meant for any specific age group, nor does it supplement or complement textbooks. This book shows possibilities of doing science with simple things.

This booklet lists a few innovative experiments for learning science. Many of them I learnt from interesting children, people and books. The English title of this book LITTLE SCIENCE has been taken from the magazine SCIENCE AGE where most of these articles first appeared.