Leo Lionni
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3D Art on Board Paper
Make Art Activities with Tissue Paper, Watercolor, and Chalk
Storytelling is one activity that children enjoy. Forming this strategy as a regular habit can enhance their imagination but not their skills. Through art activities, kids can learn new skills; by providing only limited materials like tissue paper, glue, cardboards, and chalk to work on, these young ones are given the opportunity to widen their ability to construct something out of minimal materials.
By giving kids a little guidance, different art structures and ideas can be done, and you will be surprised on how creative these kids can become. Also, using recycled tools coming from businesses that send out promotions, you can collect different
postcard sizes or business card materials for the art activity.
1. Favorite storybook part: By making kids pick a favorite part of the story you just read, and applying them through art helps them recall what the storyline was all about. Try picking books from Leo Lionni wherein the storyline is based on abstract art. Have kids choose a picture or favorite part of the story, then, after the children pencil draw, you can guide by sticking glue on the insides of the shapes. Have them stick pieces of tissue paper on them; and with watercolor, a full blend of colors form the art piece just like in the book.
2. Snow sandpaper: Pick on books that revolve around snow like Ezra Zak Keat’s The Snowy Day or Alyssa Satin Capucilli’s Biscuit’s Snowy Day. With sandpaper, have kids fill in the board paper with white chalk for the snow. Then, on top of the chalk, they can dip the pencil’s eraser on acrylic paint and form dots for the shaded and colored areas.
3. Crayon and paint: With books that have larger graphics such as Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Clifford books, you can ask kids to draw the dog or caterpillar figure with crayons. Remind them, or you can help them, to color very dark and to fill up every single space. Then with watercolor, paint on top of the crayon. Children will enjoy the magical effect on the watercolor not affecting the crayon part and they can very much blend and practice painting in any style or stroke.
Teaching children art activities related to the book they just learned about can help them digest better the other meanings found in the story. Also, with different approaches introduced to them such as 3D art will give them new skills, and perhaps they can come up with their own ideas in the future.
About the Author
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DescriptionDeep in the sea there lives a happy school of little fish. Their watery world is full of wonders, but there is also danger, and the little fish are afraid to come out of hiding . . . until Swimmy comes along... |
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Description"While other mice are gathering food for the winter, Frederick seems to daydream the summer away. When dreary weather comes, it is Frederick the poet-mouse who warms his friends and cheers them with his words"... |
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DescriptionTwo best friends, a minnow and a tadpole, are practically inseparable until the tadpole grows legs and decides to explore the world beyond the pond. When the tadpole, now a frog, returns to tell his friend of the extraordinary things he’s seen, the minnow, now a fish, tries to follow in his footsteps, but quickly finds that land is not what he expected... |
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DescriptionEveryone loves Willy the wind-up mouse, while Alexander the real mouse is chased away with brooms and mousetraps. Wouldn't it be wonderful to be loved and cuddled, thinks Alexander, and he wishes he could be a wind-up mouse too... |
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DescriptionA small green inchworm is proud of his skill at measuring anything—a robin’s tail, a flamingo’s neck, a toucan’s beak. Then one day a nightingale threatens to eat him if he cannot measure his song... |
Can you find wisdom in a book for children?
I think theists and atheists alike would agree that yes, you can... though they might differ with regards to what books qualify.
http://www.amazon.com/Fish-Leo-Lionni/dp…
I think this one quite possibly answers everything relative to why humans think the way they do... and even why they have imagined gods in the sky.
What do you think... about this book, or about some other children's book? If you feel the need to list the Bible, go right ahead. Though that seems like a perfectly terrible book for kids on many levels. But hey, make your case.
I'm more interested, however, in other books made specifically for kids that offer general wisdom and insight.
Email me if you'd rather talk about Nietzsche, J.D.
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780394804408
oops try that one 
Don't eat green eggs or ham.
When you hit so hard your string lets go and your only ball bounces all over town, buy a thicker string before hitting said ball again. It could go on all day and night.
If you dig under the fence, you don't get dessert...but if you come home really late, you can sneak the dessert without getting caught.
When you say goodnight to the moon, it doesn't answer.
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