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THE A PP LETREE

ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM
EDITOR

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Visit any nursery school and
you're bound to catch site of
children joyfully playing with
Play-Doh.
What wonderful fun they
have making pretend food, col-
orful flowers, gentle animals
and bulging eyeballs that seem-
ingly pop right out of their
sockets!
Now, imagine the thrills
your children will have when
they add a fragrance to this de-
lightful dough.
Teachers Andi Weiss and
Wendy Bass in the Clown
Room at Temple
Emanu-El nurs-
ery recently intro-
duced students to
scented Play-Doh.
All you have to do
is mix some Kool
Aid with the dough
and, voila!
The AppleTree
would love to hear if
you have other ways
of making scented dough.
Please send to Arresting Aro-
mas, The AppleTree, 27676
Franklin Rd., Southfield, MI
48034, or fax (810) 354-6069.
If we like your idea, we'll print
it in a future issue.

How Does
Your
Garden
Grow?

What could be nicer than to
sit outside in your garden and
watch the butterflies flutter
by?

One way to encourage these
lovely visitors is to plant flow-
ers known to attract them:
honeysuckle, nasturtium, petu-
nia and phlox.
If you don't have a garden of
your own, you may want to
design a gift for a'friend who
also loves butterflies, or who
can't get enough of the out-
doors.

You will
need:

Flower or herb seeds
A piece of construction paper
A good gardening book
(for research)
Pens and crayons,
or other art
supplies

Begin by
folding your
paper into
thirds. One
section will
serve as the
front cover,
on which
you could design a
nice picture of a garden. On
the first inside panel, you
might want to have pictures
(either hand-drawn or cut from
magazines) of the creatures the
flowers will bring. On the sec-
ond panel, affix with tape a
packet of seeds. On the third,
have directions about how to
plant and harvest the flowers
(gleaned from a gardening
book).
If you like, you can add addi-
tional information, such as
ideas for planting arrange-
ments, suggestions for what to
do with dried flowers, or
recipes (nasturtium is one of a
number of edible flowers).

Use Your
Imagina-
tion

My baby is having a babe of
her own
The grandma is gonna be me
I'm the mom of a mom-to-be.

How would your child like to
go sailing on the seven seas or
travel around the world — all
without ever leaving the safe
port of West Bloomfield?
Images and Imagination is a
licensed center for children
aged 3 1/2 to 6 which pro-
motes creativity through the
use of art, drama, music and
science. Both morning and af-
ternoon classes are available,
with two-hour programs dur-
ing the school year and three-
hour programs in the summer.
For information, contact
Images and Imagination direc-
tor Marion Phillips, (810)
683-9022.

The tape was written by Fe-
licia Reymont, a former copy-
writer for greeting-card
publishers and now a resident
of Litchfield County, Conn.,
and New York's Greenwich
Village.
The cassette costs $6.95, in-
cluding postage. To order,
write Reymont Associates, 20
E. Ninth St. (2R), New York,
NY 10003.

For The
Mom
Of The
Mom-To-Be

Pregnancy is the one time
even the most cynical of
women turn mushy and senti-
mental.
"O000hhh," they'll sigh at
the mere sight of baby clothes;
an episode about children on
"Touched by an Angel" is
enough to move them to
tears.
Imagine, then, what this
state does to the mother's
mother.
Now a new musical tribute
focuses on what it's like
awaiting a grandchild. It's
called "The Mom of a Mom-
To-Be."
The stork's on his way
And my heart's overflowing

Do You Like
This,
Sam-I-Am?

The Children's Museum of
Manhattan has just opened a
new interactive exhibition
that celebrates the world of
Ted Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss.
Running through February
1999, the exhibit allows chil-
dren to step into the pages of a
Dr. Seuss book, climb into the
Cat in the Hat's clean-up ma-
chine or steer the boat in
Green Eggs and Ham. Older
children, meanwhile, will