The Grown-Up's Guide to Making Art with Kids: 25+ fun and easy projects to inspire you and the little ones in your life (Grown-Up's Guide)

by Lee Foster-Wilson

Make art and memories with the special kids in your life! Packed with how-to drawing and painting projects, creative prompts, and original crafting activities, The Grown-Up’s Guide to Making Art with Kids will inspire you and your little ones to spend hours of creative fun together. Whether you're a teacher, a homeschooling parent, or a creative looking to improve upon your drawing skills while having fun with your kids, this book is for you!
  
The Grown-Up's Guide to Making Art with Kids includes drawing and painting projects featuring popular, kid-friendly, and on-trend subjects—like dinosaurs, pets, flowers, and robots—that adults and kids can create together. Guided practice pages invite interactivity and allow children and adults to draw and paint the same subjects, side by side, for a fun-filled joint activity. The book’s artwork is colorful, cheerful, approachable, and done using ordinary, easily available art tools, including markers, crayons, colored pencils, and acrylic paint.

In addition to drawing lessons, The Grown-Up’s Guide to Making Art with Kids also includes projects and ideas for using artwork created from the prompts in the book to make crafts, including a map, pop-up art, paper dolls, and much more.

The Grown-Up’s Guide to Making Art with Kids teaches valuable drawing, painting, and crafting skills to both kids and adults; inspires creativity; and encourages family togetherness. What better way to avoid screen time than by drawing, painting, and creating together with your kids? Follow-up books in the series that are also ideal for kids and adults to do together include The Grown-Up's Guide to Painting with Kids and The Grown-Up's Guide to Crafting with Kids, both publishing in June 2020.

• ISBN13: 9781633227392
• Publish Date: 23 May 2019
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 4 April 2022
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Walter Foster Publishing
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 128
• Language: English

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

The Grown-Up's Guide to Making Art with Kids is a fun tutorial guide for teachers, parents, and other resource people full of ideas for drawing with kids. Released 7th May 2019 by Quarto on their Walter Foster imprint, it's 128 pages and available in paperback and ebook formats.

This is a book absolutely full of exuberant step by step tutorials for drawing any number of creatures and objects with a whimsical style which will appeal to kids and in a manner which anyone can do. This includes the 'I can't draw a stick figure' people out there.

The books introduction (circa 17% of the page content) covers materials and a little bit of color theory, with tips and extra info highlighted in sidebars. The following chapters are paired in an alternating format with the first chapter covering how to draw animals, moving objects, buildings, people etc, and the following containing a step-by-step project tutorial incorporating the items from the previous chapter. The project tutorials include pop-up scenes, collages, shadow puppets, a map, and several others.

I am not familiar with many art books aimed specifically at adults in a context of drawing in a way to please and appeal to the small people in their lives. This one is excellent and would make a superlative support book for classroom teachers, facilitators, homeschoolers, librarians, parents, babysitters, camp staff, etc.

Five stars. This is a really useful and appealing book for all ages.

Disclosure: I received an early eARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.