Doodles and Oodles of Art

Have you or your kids ever . . . fingerpainted 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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With Art in Mind, Grade 3-8

These sixty are lessons represent the most enjoyable and successful lessons that the author, Patricia Parker Grobner, used during her thiry-three years of teaching art to children. Each lesson is based on important art elements and principles, and each helps the students develop basic skills that are useful in all areas of life and learning.

Since art training and resources are frequently limited, all of these lessons are based on simple, step-by-step procedures that can be followed easily by persons with little or no formal art background. The lessons use materials that can be obtained inexpensively and stored easily. They are appropriate for students ages eight through thirteen, with a color key indicating whether the lesson is best for younger (blue), intermediate (red), or older (yellow) students within that range. Many of the lessons can be used with even younger or older students. Their flexibility allows them to be used in any sequence or with a group of students of mixed ages. Older students will generally produce a more complex and skillfully accomplished result, but all can benefit from the thinking, learning, and doing processes involved.

These lessons and their accompanying examples will aid you as you help your students enjoy art and learn from it. Pages viii-xiv provide helpful information and tips from Ms. Groebner and coordinating author Mary Ann Lumm on the teaching of art and the structure and goals of these lessons. You will profit from taking a few minutes to read those pages before beginning work on the lessons.

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Drawing Basics with Thomas Kinkade--Video Set

Sharpen your pencils and get ready to learn from the best! Designed for students ages 8 to 12, this introductory set features the Painter of Light himself teaching all budding artists the basics of realistic drawing. His fun skill-building exercises will help you learn to observe and re-create the world around you. Includes five lessons on one videocassette, plus five student workbooks.

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Kids' Art Works!: Creating with Color, Design, Texture & More

Encouraging children to use their imagination, this inventive book shows them the joys of sculpting, weaving, drawing, and painting! Young artists explore the uses of color, texture, and pattern through more than 60 fun-filled activities. They'll create a beautiful butterfly, build a hot-air balloon, design a bean-and-seed pendant, and much more! Three levels of difficulty. Ages 6 to 12. 138 pages, softcover from Williamson.

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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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