Show-How Guides: Egg Decorating: The 18 Essential Designs & Techniques Everyone Should Know!

by Renée Kurilla, Keith Zoo (Illustrator)

Overview

SHOW-HOW GUIDES: EGG DECORATING is a primer for curious minds with a clear, fun graphic style that invites any kid to get started designing and decorating eggs.

This pocket-sized 101 includes a curated collection of 18 essential dying and decorating techniques. Every step is illustrated, allowing kids to easily master the basics, regardless of how they learn.

Readers will learn to dye, dip, and paint dazzling eggs with natural dyes, food coloring, glitter, glue, and other glitz, cut-paper crafts, and more.

SHOW-HOW GUIDES offers visual, step-by-step introductions to skills that every kid should know―from hair braiding and paper airplanes, to drawing animals, pumpkin carving, gingerbread houses, and more! Whether you’re a second grader learning to make friendship bracelets for the first time or an adult looking to master the art of knots, these comics will give you the skills you’ll treasure through childhood and beyond.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250867599
Publisher:	Odd Dot
Publication date:	01/04/2022
Series:	Show-How Guides
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	48
File size:	44 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	6 - 11 Years

About the Author

Renée Kurilla has illustrated many books for children, She, her husband, and their fluffy cat, Timmy, can be found in Boston, Massachusetts, approximately 9,410 miles from the Borneo rain forest.

Keith Zoo is an illustrator living near Boston, MA. For the past decade, he's been the Lead Artist at FableVision Studios, working on a full range of things, from character design to animation layout, interactives and design. When he's not there, he loves spending his time drawing monsters, goblins and other silly things. To check out more of Keith's work, head on over to his website.

Renée Kurilla has illustrated many books for children, including Margarita Engle's Orangutanka, Lisl H. Detlefsen's Right This Very Minute, and her own graphic novel, The Flower Garden. She, her husband, and their fluffy cat, Timmy, can be found in Boston, Massachusetts, approximately 9,410 miles from the Borneo rain forest.
Keith Zoo is an illustrator living near Boston, MA. For the past decade, he's been the Lead Artist at FableVision Studios, working on a full range of things, from character design to animation layout, interactives and design. When he's not there, he loves spending his time drawing monsters, goblins and other silly things. To check out more of Keith's work, head on over to his website.

Editorial Reviews

03/01/2022

Gr 2–6—This guide provides detailed step-by-step instructions on how to dye, paint, and embellish eggs using a wide variety of techniques. Each topic is covered in a numbered grid, with blue-and-white cartoon-style illustrations depicting each step of the process. Techniques include: boiling eggs; dyeing eggs with food coloring; using natural dyes; painting eggs (the book warns not to eat these); stamping eggs; creating colorful patterns with whipped cream, aluminum foil, or bubble wrap; decorating eggs with pompons, yarn, and paper; games to play with decorated eggs; and how to make stuffed eggs. VERDICT With its clean, kid-friendly layout and clear, detailed instructions, this guide will appeal to families looking for new ways to decorate eggs for Easter and other occasions.—Ashley Larsen

School Library Journal

2021-12-16
A basic guide to the “FUN-damentals” of egg crafts.

A cheerful blue egg (who is ungendered) sporting a half apron and an artsy beret breaks down a method for hard-boiling eggs with an adult’s help, then goes on to guide readers through the steps for executing increasingly elaborate egg decorating projects. Children will learn how to make dyes from food coloring or fruits and vegetables and how to achieve various decorative effects, including “egg people” designs and animal designs (the “egg chick” concept seems a bit meta). The book also provides suggestions for displaying decorated eggs, using them in games, and, yes, turning them into tasty treats. Materials used range from acrylic paint and googly eyes to onion skins and glow-in-the-dark glue. The written instructions are simple and concise. They frequently begin with “lay newspaper over your workspace” (good advice!) and include important safety notes. Zoo’s diagrammatic illustrations are easy to follow with numbered directions, spot art laid out in panels, and labeled, graphic overviews of required supplies; however, the minimal palette of black, white, and blue fails to give young handicrafters enough sense of the art form’s creative possibilities. Readers may want to keep a more visually stimulating handbook, like Lindstrom’s Beautiful Eggs (2021), handy on the worktable for inspiration.

Simple and practical, although the visuals underperform. (Nonfiction. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews