Artstarts for Little Hands!

Curious 3- to 7-year-olds love exploring their world and expressing themselves through art. And you'll appreciate how award-winning author Press incorporates early learning skill-builders (math, science, nature, and more) into each activity. Instructions are kept to a minimum, allowing your child's creativity to flourish. Projects use readily available materials and are coded by skill level. 118 pages, softcover from Williamson.

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Doodles and Oodles of Art

Have you or your kids ever . . . finger painted with yogurt? Spattered paint with an eggbeater? Melted crayons on tinfoil? If not, you've been missing out! Once you join your 5- to 8-year-olds in a few of these hands-on art projects, you'll see why sometimes the creative process is even more satisfying than the resulting masterpiece! 136 pages, softcover from Teaching & Learning Company.

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Do You Doodle?

With all the pressure for kids to achieve at whatever they try, here is the perfect antidote-a book that simply invites them to enter and play. Nikalas Catlow has made a start on each of the generous-sized pages-a few beginning strokes of pictures and prompts like a boy looking into a bowl and asking what's in there. Doodlers go off from there on a liberating flight of mindless fancy. There are over 200 pages to complete and create. A book that will be as irresistible to overtaxed adults as it is to kids eager to enjoy its spirit of adventure, imagination, and creativity.

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