Welcome to
Melvin’s Store
Download free or purchase curriculum-related content and fun activities that can be enjoyed by everyone! Even Melvin and his friends are available for purchase so that you can bring them home with you.
Each element in Melvin’s Store is hand-crafted and curated by us here at the Fraser Valley Child Development Centre in beautiful British Columbia to help Parents, Caregivers, Teachers and Educators get the most out of connecting with their children, reducing stressors and strengthening everyone’s social emotional well-being.
Free Resources
Just download, listen and enjoy!
FUN with Melvin: Songs and Games book
Provides you with many joyful activities to do with your child and will help to support you in building a better for brain for your child in the future!
Super Friends Colouring Book
Melvin and Tucker and Super Friends. They have learned solutions to help them solve problems and want to share their solutions with you. Colouring book pages may be printed.
Melvin's Brain Builders
The Melvin Brain Builder Tip Sheets incorporate the knowing (knowledge), doing (activities and interactions), and being (self-reflection, self-awareness, self-care) are always integrated in practice when working with children, youth and families.
Melvin's Tips Book
Melvin's Tips is a Pre-Kindergarten (3-5 years olds) guide to nurture your child's development and well-being. The book includes tips for each developmental domain - gross & fine motor, cognitive, language, reading & printing, and social & emotional, and pro-social development. Melvin's Tips talks about the ICARE approach to understand and respond when a child has big emotions.
Tucker Technique Song
Melvin has been learning the Turtle Technique with his friend Tucker. The technique reminds children to stop what they are doing, tuck and hug themselves, breathe and think of solution.
