Drawing is a great way to introduce young children to important concepts such as colors and basic shapes. In this brightly illustrated how-to book, children will learn how to draw a cute frog using ovals of different colors and sizes. Beginning readers will have no trouble following the simple step-by-step instructions. Close picture-text correlation encourages children to identify colors. A fun fact and photograph of a frog opens the book and draws reluctant readers in.

Readers will draw their frog with ovals by beginning with the back leg. They will use small or large ovals and such colors as yellow, purple, and pink to complete their frog in eight simple steps. They’ll have fun coloring in their finished oval frog!

A turtle's most interesting feature is its shell, and what better shape to draw a turtle shell with than a half circle. This book introduces children to a number of basic colors as well as the half-circle shape. The simple step-by-step instructions are easy for emerging readers to follow. A full-color photograph at the beginning of the book shows children what a real-life turtle looks like and helps to draw in hesitant readers.

Children will love drawing their very own butterfly with the help of this colorful how-to book. Easy-to-follow instructions on each page are paired with a bright illustration, fostering reading-comprehension skills in early readers. Children are introduced to important early elementary concepts such as colors and basic shapes, with a focus on circles. After following the simple steps in this book, readers can proudly show off their very own beautiful butterfly drawings.

Table of Contents Drawing tools Pencils Charcoal pencils Mechanical pencil Sharpener Erasers Smudge sticks Coloring materials Drawing a Common Frog Common Gestures Purple Fluorescent Frog Red-eyed Tree Frog Strawberry Poison Dart Frog Blue Poison Dart Frog Author Bio Publisher

Learning about colors and shapes is an important part of a child's early education, and the perfect way to introduce these concepts is through drawing. A full-color photograph and a fact about fish opens the book and pulls young readers in. What follows is a step-by-step guide to help children draw their own fishy friend using colorful triangles. Simple instructions make learning to draw easy and fun for everyone.

Now anyone with a PC or Mac can click on to the most exciting and stimulating activities for our computer generation. "Click!" takes the popular "activity" book category into new territory. 200 computer-generated line drawings.

Finally, an art unit that utilizes a method of presenting lessons that will allow even the most uncertain individual to have success with art. Each lesson details step-by-step directions involving easy-to-draw shapes such as circles, ovals, letter shapes and clouds to create an image. One preferred strategy is for the teacher to demonstrate the steps with students following along creating a "rough draft". This allows students to make mistakes and practice the various techniques insuring a better final product. Although each lesson stands on its own, they are best taught in order as several techniques are explored and evolve in difficulty. This Art lesson provides a teacher and student section with a variety of step-by-step student projects and evaluation to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

This kids’ how-to art book lets the inquisitive child experience the woodland world through drawing. Each spread—drawn in Angela's trademark playful style—offers a step-by-step guide to drawing adorable animals (badgers, bears, and bugs), fungi, ferns and flowers, grasses, rock-dwelling creatures, and forest trees.

Early Art of the Southeastern Indians is a visual journey through time, highlighting some of the most skillfully created art in native North America. The remarkable objects described and pictured here, many in full color, reveal the hands of master artists who developed lapidary and weaving traditions, established centers for production of shell and copper objects, and created the first ceramics in North America. Presenting artifacts originating in the Archaic through the Mississippian periods--from thousands of years ago through A.D. 1600--Susan C. Power introduces us to an extraordinary assortment of ceremonial and functional objects, including pipes, vessels, figurines, and much more. Drawn from every corner of the Southeast--from Louisiana to the Ohio River valley, from Florida to Oklahoma--the pieces chronicle the emergence of new media and the mastery of new techniques as they offer clues to their creators’ widening awareness of their physical and spiritual worlds. The most complex works, writes Power, were linked to male (and sometimes female) leaders. Wearing bold ensembles consisting of symbolic colors, sacred media, and richly complex designs, the leaders controlled large ceremonial centers that were noteworthy in regional art history, such as Etowah, Georgia; Spiro, Oklahoma; Cahokia, Illinois; and Moundville, Alabama. Many objects were used locally; others circulated to distant locales. Power comments on the widening of artists’ subjects, starting with animals and insects, moving to humans, then culminating in supernatural combinations of both, and she discusses how a piece’s artistic “language” could function as a visual shorthand in local style and expression, yet embody an iconography of regional proportions. The remarkable achievements of these southeastern artists delight the senses and engage the mind while giving a brief glimpse into the rich, symbolic world of feathered serpents and winged beings.