Unique Holiday Gift Idea: Pysanka Power! Birthday Party Ideas & Planner

Is there a birthday coming up in the new year? This booklet will make a unique stocking stuffer.

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Friends' eyes will sparkle when they discover the magic of making pysanky at a birthday party. This book is full of ideas and resources to make a pysanka-themed party a smashing (no pun intended) success. Table of contents includes invitations, decorations, games, cake, snacks, favors, planner and more. Full color. Soft cover (12pp).

The perfect partner to our Pysanky Party Kits. If you think that egg decorating is just for Easter, THINK AGAIN!

We think it is an eggs-cellent source of information to buy on its own or to add to your collection. If you have any questions about it, please ask us.

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We were proud and honoured to feature this book in About the Pysanka : It Is Written! A Bibliography by Joan Brander (Joan Brander. Richmond, BC: Baba's Beeswax, 2007. ISBN 9781897253144).

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Seasonal Greetings from Guy Kistka - September Autumnal Equinox

Our playful mascot, Guy Kistka, loves the first day of fall and the crunching sound as he runs through the leaves! The team of pysanky experts at Baba’s Beeswax love the autumnal equinox with its explosion of yellow, orange and red—which also happen to be three basic colours of pysanky dyes! Thanksgiving and Halloween will carry us through the season and all the woodland creatures will start storing up for the long haul of winter.

See his greeting here: 

Autumnal Equinox

What do you love about fall? What special traditions do you have?

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The Perfect Christmas Present for the Pysanka Lover: About the Pysanka - It Is Written! A Bibliography by Joan Brander

If you’re wondering which pysanka book to give as a Christmas present this year, this bibliography has an extensive list of resources. It’s one you’ll surely want to add to your own collection, so you may need to buy 2!

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This valuable resource is authored by our very own Joan Brander, and we were proud and honoured to publish it for her.

It is a unique compilation of more than 250 books, periodicals and audiovisual titles. When Joan discovered that she could not find a published bibliography on pysanky she set about to write her own. The result is "About the Pysanka—It Is Written! A Bibliography by Joan Brander". Chapters include pysanky books, children’s books, newsletters, articles, audio-visual, chronological index and author index. The book also includes 72 colour plates.

The publishing and cataloguing of this first of-its-kind book garnered a place for "pysanky" in the bibliography class of the Library of Congress headings - a precedent setting development.

Just a note that the digital and eBook versions have 38 more colour plates than does the print version.

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Hidden Passions - an exhibit of artists at the British Columbia Institiute of Technology

We've had a busy few weeks lately including Joan's interview with radio producer/host Paulette “Pawlina” MacQuarrie of Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio on August 26th (transcript to follow), a pysanka workshop at Richmond World Festival on September 1st (more photos to follow), and Joan's exhibit of pysanky featured at Hidden Passions with her colleagues at the British Columbia Institute of Technology on September 7th (photos herewith). 

Joan and her pysanky display

Close-up of Joan's pysanky

the British Columbia Institute of Technology

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The Perfect Christmas Stocking Stuffer for Kids: Pysanky on Paper - An Activity Book for Children

Get an early start on picking up stocking stuffers for your kids and grandkids. This activity book accompanied by a new box of crayons will keep them engaged in the wonder of pysanky. We found the bee’s knees of beeswax crayons here together with a recipe to make your own https://craftwhack.com/whats-the-deal-with-beeswax-crayons/

Check out this link to our Pysanka Power Video Clip published on our Baba's Beeswax YouTube Channel for a book preview that flips through the pages:

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This was the first of several children’s books authored by our very own Joan Brander back in 1997 at a time when she had a very young son of her own, and was inspired by the numerous pysanky workshops she conducted in elementary schools. The activity book is going into its fourth printing and has stood the test of time.

Pysanky on Paper - An Activity Book for Children introduces the art of colorful Ukrainian pysanky eggs to children aged 2 to 12. The activities in the book teach symbolism, coloring, drawing, reading, writing, math and science through pysanky. It also includes activities, stories, puzzles, games, art projects and a bibliography.

We think it is an eggs-cellent source of information to buy on its own or to add to your collection. If you have any questions about it, please ask us.

Children’s Book previewed on Pysanka Power Video Clips

We were proud and honoured to feature this book in About the Pysanka : It Is Written! A Bibliography by Joan Brander (Joan Brander. Richmond, BC: Baba's Beeswax, 2007. ISBN 9781897253144).

Visit our website for pysanky kits, supplies, this book, eBooks, and other books published by Baba’s Beeswax: http://www.babasbeeswax.com 

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Christmas Shopping for Kids and Teachers: My First Pysanka - Symbols my Baba taught me

Are you an early-bird Christmas shopper? If so, be the first to grab this newly-published book for the cherished children or grandchildren in your life. And don’t forget a token of appreciation for teachers, as this book is for them too! From toddlers to teachers—this book engages in the wonder of pysanky and their symbols.

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The author, our very own Joan Brander, has created more than just another colouring page. Her first of-its-kind book demystifies the symbolism of pysanky with a rich array of over 70 large-format drawings (hand drawn with no stock photos used), symbols grouped into easy to understand categories, simple and uncomplicated drawings, and pages that can be mounted as teaching aids in classrooms. This book was created to complement other resources used by educators.

Kids are fascinated with pysanky and the symbols they can write on a fragile egg. Pysanky images in other children’s books are too complicated. Joan has used simple designs to balance the motor skills of children, especially if they enjoy the technique of pysanky. This book rocks it.

How about adding a box of crayons? Do you think that beeswax crayons are the bee’s knees? Like the ones here https://craftwhack.com/whats-the-deal-with-beeswax-crayons/ (they also have a recipe to make your own!).

We think that My First Pysanka - Symbols my Baba taught me is an eggs-cellent and unique resource to buy for a gift or add to your own collection. If you have any questions about it, please ask us.

Children’s Book previewed on Pysanka Power Video Clips

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