I Can Draw People

Even very young children will be able to achieve delightful results when they follow the clear step-by-step picture instructions in this book. Packed with attractive drawings, each double page spread shows children how to draw a different type of person, from a soccer player to a ballerina. Precise hand-control is not required, and lots of ideas for adding details and backgrounds guarantee satisfying results for adults and children alike.

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I Can Draw Animals

Children love drawing, but can become frustrated when their pictures do not turn out how they want. This award-winning book is packed with attractive drawings of animals, with very clear step-by-step picture instructions showing how to do them. Precise hand-control is not required, so even very young children will be able to achieve some delightful results.

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Christian Crafts from Paper Plates

Christian Crafts from Paper Plates is a collection of over 3 dozen Scripture based craft projects, including Autumn projects of pumpkins, Pilgrim hats and turkeys; Christmas bells, angels, snowmen, and snowflakes for Winter; Easter lilies, butterflies, and birds for Spring; and balloons, watermelon slices and Mother's Day baskets for Summer.

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Kids' Multicultural Art Book: Art & Craft Experiences from Around the World

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Around the World Art & Activities: Visiting the 7 Continents Through Craft Fun

Take your 3- to 7-year-olds on a whirlwind learning tour of all seven continents! The packing list? One homemade cereal-box suitcase, some simple household art supplies, and plenty of imagination. As kids build a 3-dimensional Eiffel Tower, make music on a didgeridoo, eat with chopsticks, weave Kente-style cloth, and more, they'll have fun and learn appreciation for other cultures. 128 pages, softcover from Williamson.

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Art for the Very Young

From the publisher: Ages 3-6. Real art for young minds! Children create art while learning about basic art concepts and techniques with more than 50 activities. Extend the learning opportunities by viewing and interpreting selected masterpieces by Monet, Seurat, van Gogh, and other. 128 pp.

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Kids Create! Art & Craft Experiences

What can kids create? dinosaurs popping out of dinosaur eggs! fossils created in your own backyard! a clay cactus garden paper mache inedible edibles prints of all kinds-thumb, food, sponge, sandpaper sculptures and windsocks pinwheels and butterfly puppets Ah, the wonder of some paper, paste, a few recycled materials and a child's imagination. Laurie Carlson has captured the joy of creating while introducing the basics of working with paper and paste, clay and dough, printmaking, sculpture, and varied art and craft techniques. Her strong, intuitive sense of what it takes to make a joyful, creative art experience overflows on each delightful page. While every child will rejoice,so,too, will parents and teachers, as Carlson has filled her books with tips and tricks as well as guides to time per project and degree of difficulty of each project. So kids, parents, teachers, friends, neighbors, sisters and brothers: Get out your paper, your glue pots, Popsicle sticks, pie plates and all kinds of recyclables- what they'll become-well, the sky's the limit!

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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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