By joining circles, ovals, rectangles, cylinders, and other common shapes, even the budding artist can easily create 30 different characters -- a fireman, a drummer, a mailman, a cowboy, an astronaut, a roller-skating girl, a boy on a swing, and more. Simple directions, step-by-step illustrations, and blank practice pages make it even easier. You can color the pictures when you are done -- it's a fun-filled way to teach art to young children or a beginner that enjoys drawing.

By combining circles, ovals, squiggly lines, and other shapes, aspiring artists can create realistic portraits of young girls modeling a variety of hairstyles and hats, boys and young men in cowboy hats and baseball caps, curly-haired babies, a man with a beard, a bald man with a moustache, and older men and women as well as profiles and three-quarter views of faces.
Not only are the faces fun to draw, they ll also help beginners master the basics of shape development and understand the fundamentals of form and dimension. For ages 8 and up."

Coloring and puzzle enthusiasts will love this treasury of more than 40 connect-the-dots challenges. Intricate puzzles to solve and color depict a hummingbird poised above a flower, a mother raccoon with her baby, a spider monkey, and other animals as well as fanciful images of a tow truck, ice skaters, a windmill, an old-fashioned phonograph, and more.

Find out who's who at the zoo and bring a herd of prehistoric creatures to life Kids can connect the dots of more than 50 puzzles to meet modern-day wildlife, from a towering elephant to a dainty cockatoo. They'll also encounter fierce predators and gentle herbivores from the age of dinosaurs.