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A wonderful resource for any rainy day. I learned a few things myself. I appreciate the way in which the material was presented. I found a number of great, new ideas to use with my troop.
You cannot ask a child to look at a black and white picture and then try to recreate the work. But as it is, the black and white really takes away from the art. It has good information on the artists and the methods used, but other than that I would NOT recommend this book to anyone. I have to agree with the other people who posted about the pictures in the book. If they were in color, this book would be a masterpiece.
The ideas are fresh, fun and engaging. I continually use this book and the ideas within it. I can make a lesson fit my preschool class or my art class of fifteen year olds.
Great for teachers or parents. Its a complete source. The activities and info of artist its easy to do and understand.
There are lot of other books that do a much better job of what I expect the author of this book was trying to do. None of the projects really jumped out at me. Instead check out the Art Explorers series by Joyce Raimondo or look at some of the Usborne art titles. A few of the projects in this book looked like they could potentially be fun, but overall the book is not very visually appealing. If each page had a famous art work in color that the kids could appreciate, and there were some sample kids' creations in color as well that kids and parents could look at, I think it would have made a world of difference.
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