The Anti-Coloring Book of Exploring Space on Earth: Creative Activities for Ages 6 and Up

by Susan Striker

Here is an antidote to the kind of 'art' that tells kids to draw a triangle on top of a rectangle and call it a house. In these delightful pages, children-as well as adults-are encouraged to see... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805014462
• ISBN13: 9780805014464
• Release Date: June 1980
• Publisher: Holt McDougal
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.6" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 6 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 5

Customer Reviews

Hooray for leaving the "Stay within the Line" mentality!

I would buy every young person I know this book if it were available. Creating and exploring in a young person is stiffled around age 6. I hear people say "I can't draw a straight line," or "I can't draw," or "I can't paint," and too bad their brain accepted teachers/parents lack of encouragement to color anything, draw anything, go beyond the lines. The Anti-Coloring Book of Exploring Space on Earth by Susan Striker should be given to every school child. The pictures are started, and the child/person is encouraged to complete from with descriptions like, "Would you like to live on a houseboat?", "Build a Treehouse where you can go and be alone," "Decorate this Dollhouse," "The people who live in this apartment have commissioned you to paint a modern masterpiece." "You are a scientist who has established a model community for life under the sea."An exciting alternative to passive, mindless "art."