Gifts for Kids

Mini Frog Finger Puppet / Grenouille marionnette à doigt

Approx 12.7cm long, 7.6cm tall, 15.2cm wide.

Brilliantly colored and extraordinary, the Red Octopus Finger puppet is ready for marine exploration and beach fun!

Canoe with Bear, Raven and Frog Finger Puppets
All with First Nations Designs by Bill Helin

Canoe Length: Approx 12"
Bear and Raven: Approx 5"
Frog: Approx 3.5"

Salmon Finger Puppet with First Nations Designs by Bill Helin

Length: Approx 5"

Designed by artist Ben Houstie (Bella Bella).

Additional Information

• Approx 12"
• High-quality stuffed animal.

Salmon Plush with First Nations designs by Bill Helin

Length: Approx 12"

Experience the beauty of life and the magic of metamorphosis with the Monarch Life Cycle puppet. A wonderful teaching tool with extraordinary design, this unique toy changes from caterpillar to chrysalis to adult monarch butterfly. Utilize the zippers to tuck and reveal one stage to the next and watch life unfold before your eyes! Once the transformation is complete, insert your hands into the monarch wings to cause a flutter with your friends.

Features:

• 12 inches long, 22 inches wide, 4 inches tall (Note: 22" width is the wingspan).

Bring the joy wherever you go! With soft plush the color of sunshine, the Duckling Finger Puppet chirps happily with a little shake. 

Additional Information

• 5" long x 3" wide x 4" tall 

Additional Information

• 9" long x 5" wide x 9" tall 
• Movable mouth and forelegs.

This Indigenous Plant Memory Matching Card Game contains 25 cards, including 1 instructional card and 2 each of the following: 

1. Bitter-root
2. Blue Camas
3. Burdock
4. Cat-tail
5. Devil’s Club
6. Fireweed
7. Kinnikinnick
8. Licorice Fern
9. Oregon Grape
10. Soapberry
11. Stinging Nettle
12. Tiger Lily

Educator Information
At Strong Nations, we strive to provide meaningful learning opportunities for all learners with our products. Our Strong Learners products can work both independently, or to support our Strong Nations books.

Memory Matching Card Games support young learners to develop and strengthen their ability to recall information. Some other benefits include:

· social interaction
· improve concentration
· pay attention to detail
· turn taking
· brain exercise
· ability to stay focused

These cards are printed on Stone Paper.  This eco-friendly paper alternative is made from stone, not trees!  Stone Paper is tear-resistant, uses no lamination, and does not use trees, water, or harmful chemicals and dyes in its production. The cards are also biodegradable.  While they can be used outside, store cards in the shade or away from direct sunlight. 

Card Game Creator: Terri Mack

Additional Information
25 cards per set | 4.5" x 3.5" | ISBN: 459312866017 

At Strong Nations we strive to provide meaningful learning opportunities for all learners with our products. Our Strong Learners products can work both independently, or to support our Strong Nations books.

25 Cards – 1 Instructional Card and 2 each of the following:
• Bull Kelp
• Mossy Chiton
• Ochre Sea Star
• Decorator Crab
• Giant Green Anemone
• Giant Pacific Octopus
• Glaucous-winged Gull
• Pacific Blue Mussels
• Orca
• Sea Otter
• Purple Sea Urchin
• Steller Sea Lion

Memory Matching Card Games support young learners to develop and strengthen their ability to recall information. Some other benefits include:

· social interaction
· improve concentration
· pay attention to detail
· turn taking
· brain exercise
· ability to stay focused

Card Game Creator: Terri Mack

Additional Information
25 cards per set | 4.5" x 3.5" | Cellophane wrapped | ISBN: 459312866000

Looking deceptively like a domestic cat, the bobcat remains wild at heart as it hunts through the night for prey. Bring the wonder of nature to your fingertips with this bobcat puppet.

Features:

• 2 x 3.5 x 4.5 inches

Salish Sea Animal Flash Cards.

• Includes 24 flashcards with cultural teachings
• Featuring the work of 11 contributing Coast Salish artists
• Soy-based ink and water-based protective coating
• Measures 5.5" x 7" x 1.75", made from paper sourced from sustainable forests

Contributing Artists: Darrell Thorne Doug Horne Doug LaFortune Erica Joseph Francis Horne Sr. Joe Wilson-Sxwaset lessLIE Maynard Johnny Jr. Simone Diamond Terry Horne

Text by: Melaney Gleeson-Lyall, Musqueam, Coast Salish

This card game provides two learning opportunities. Cards consist of six salmon species and the six life cycle stages of the salmon and a salmon crest image. On the salmon species cards students will see both the marine and spawning phase of the salmon on one card.

25 Cards – 1 Instructional Card and 2 each of the following:
• Eggs
• Fry
• Alevin
• Smolt
• Adult
• Spawner

• Chinook
• Chum
• Coho
• Pink
• Sockeye
• Steelhead

Educator Information
At Strong Nations, we strive to provide meaningful learning opportunities for all learners with our products. These cards support the book From the Mountains to the Sea: We Are a Community.

Find Salmon Memory Matching Cards in French HERE!

Card Game Creator: Terri Mack

Additional Information
25 cards per set | 4.5" x 3.5" | ISBN: 459312860015

Game play:
Players can sort and categorize the cards into the groups below or they can sort and categorize all cards into the four seasons.

Seasons Cards Includes:
• 4 Birds
• 4 Mammals
• 4 Amphibians
• 2 Arachnids/2 Insects
• 4 Trees
• 4 Plants

Educator Information
At Strong Nations we strive to provide meaningful learning opportunities for all learners with our products. This set of cards supports the book From the Mountains to the Sea: We Share the Seasons.

Card Game Creator: Terri Mack

This resource is also available in French HERE!

Additional Information
4.5" x 3.5" | Product Number:  459312860022