I Love to Finger Paint!


Book Description

Sometimes all it takes is a little hands-on playfulness to get children involved in art. So forget the brushes--this third entry in the My Very Favorite Art Book series puts its finger on what kids find fun. The colorful array of creative activities will have budding painters amazed at all the different ways they can use their fingers, hands, and even their feet to make both realistic and abstract pictures. It won't be long before proud youngsters produce galleries of blot masterpieces, dinosaurs, fingerprint people, animals, and crazy creatures. Plus, they'll learn some simple how-tos for mixing colors and making their own paints. And the text is kept to a minimum, so even pre-readers can follow along.




Finger Painting. Level 1


Book Description

These unique and innovative books are based on the early childhood development system invented by bestselling experts Olga Ouzorova and Elena Nefedova. Their methods help children develop essential skills such as logical thinking, speech, imagination, and especially, creativity and emotional awareness. Kids love to paint with their fingers, and these books are perfect for creating first masterpieces that are perfect for framing! Helps develop early learning skills and sharpen fine motor skills. Includes playful rhymes to keep little artists engaged and entertained. The pages include ready-made templates and easy instructions to make learning fun. Little painters will learn about animals, plants, and many other child-popular subjects. All finger painting activities are organized by levels of complexity and are age-appropriate for each child. A wonderful way to spark conversation with your child.




Finger Painting Weekend Workshop


Book Description

Finger painting isn't just for kids! Learn to create an impressionist artwork with Finger Painting Weekend Workshop: A Beginner's Guide to Creating Brush-Free Works of Art.




Fingerpainting in Psych Class


Book Description

Working with kids is challenging in the best of situations. Fingerpainting in Psych Class is a resource for parents, teachers, therapists and other adults who want to better meet this challenge and more effectively work with children of all ages. This book will help you: ���� Better understand children and teenagers. ���� Confidently work with children on a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues. ���� Stop reacting to negative behavior and be more of a positive influence. ���� Better understand some important psychological and spiritual principles critical to every child's healthy development. ���� Develop the ability to use intuition and creativity in your work with children. "My kids were driving me crazy. Now we're all working together again." "A whimsical name for a seriously good book. 'Fingerpainting' is a lot more than another 'How to' book." How would you like to take some of the pressure out of parenting? Do you want to know how to really help kids and have fun with them at the same time? If parenting or managing children has been perplexing, frustrating, or tedious for you, why not shake things up a bit? Put that old "parent-by-number" book away, and try "fingerpainting in psych class."




I Love to Paint!


Book Description

Learn how to have lots of fun painting!




Katie and the Starry Night


Book Description

Join Katie as she steps into some of the most famous paintings in the world for an exciting art adventure! The stars in Vincent van Gogh's painting are so beautiful that Katie can't resist reaching in and taking one. But what will she do when all the other stars come tumbling out of the painting, too? Will Katie be able to catch the stars before the gallery guard notices they've floated away? 'A wonderful way to engage children with art. A brilliant combination of education and storytelling' - Parents in Touch (Katie's Picture Show) This first introduction to Van Gogh features five of his most brilliant paintings: The Starry Night, Noon, Vincent's Chair, Fishing Boats on the Beach and The Olive Grove. Classic picture book character, Katie, has been delighting children for over 25 years. Why not collect all 13 titles in the series? Katie's Picture Show Katie and the Impressionists Katie and the Mona Lisa Katie and the Sunflowers Katie and the British Artists Katie and the Waterlily Pond Katie and the Spanish Princess Katie and the Bathers Katie in London Katie's London Christmas Katie in Scotland Katie and the Dinosaurs




Imaginative Realism


Book Description

A examination of time-tested methods used by artists since the Renaissance to make realistic pictures of imagined things.




When Pigasso Met Mootisse


Book Description

When Pigasso met Mootisse, what begins as a neighborly overture escalates into a mess. Before you can say paint-by-numbers, the two artists become fierce rivals, calling each other names and ultimately building a fence between them. But when the two painters paint opposite sides of the fence that divides them, they unknowingly create a modern art masterpiece, and learn it is their friendship that is the true work of art. Nina Laden's wacky illustrations complement this funny story that non only introduces children to two of the world's most extraordinary modern artists, but teaches a very important lesson—how to creatively resolve a conflict—in a most unusual way.




Defining Visual Arts


Book Description

This book explains what visual art standards are and what to teach children




Let's Make Some Great Fingerprint Art


Book Description

Discover different and surprising ways of creating pictures with finger- and handprints. Create handprint birds, lions and reindeer; invent strange creatures by combining fingerprints and blowpainting; make fingerprint stencil art or create your own gallery of aliens and monsters. From flowers and bees to dinosaurs and skeletons - let the inky fingers begin! Marion Deuchars is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning illustrator with an instantly recognizable and much loved style. From her covers for Penguin Books to her stamps celebrating the Royal Shakespeare Company, her illustration and lettering is unparalleled and highly influential.