Hand-print animal art

Gr 3-5‘A craft book that presents detailed instructions for 63 animals, along with full-color pictures that show the finished projects. The basic shapes are created by putting paint on one's hands and stamping them on paper. Details are added with fingertips and or fine-line markers. Bits of scientific information and suggestions for experiments or other activities appear on the pages facing the directions. While the art projects are fun and stimulating, this peripheral material is dull and extraneous. Children who love Ed Emberley's thumbprint books will enjoy this extension of that concept. In addition to those drawing guides, a general title such as Sara Lynn and Diane James's Play with Paint (Carolrhoda, 1992) is recommended for ideas on encouraging creativity.‘Jean Pollock, King Country Library System, Seattle, WA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.