The Jumbo Book of Outdoor Art

by Irene Luxbacher, Irene Luxbacher (Illustrator)

Overview

With this Jumbo Book as their guide, kids can take their inner artist for a walk on the wild side! Here they will find the inspiration and materials to make 57 projects in the great outdoors, including backyards, parks, forests and beaches. From imagined ogres who live underground to a sculpture that grows, making outdoor art is a blast of fresh air. This book is full to bursting with creative energy and encourages kids to ... take it outside!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781553376804
Publisher:	Kids Can Press
Publication date:	08/28/2006
Series:	Jumbo Books Series
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	1,061,685
Product dimensions:	8.62(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Irene Luxbacher is an artist and the author-illustrator of The Jumbo Book of Art, The Jumbo Book of Outdoor Art, the Starting Art series and Mattoo, Let's Play! She also illustrated The Imaginary Garden for Kids Can Press. She lives in Toronto.

Irene Luxbacher is an artist and the author-illustrator of The Jumbo Book of Art, The Jumbo Book of Outdoor Art, the Starting Art series and Mattoo, Let's Play! She also illustrated The Imaginary Garden for Kids Can Press. She lives in Toronto.

Editorial Reviews

Good-quality illustrations and photos bring these ideas to life ... Children will polish their creative skills with a wide variety of artistic experiences ...-School Library Journal

This book would be a life-caver for mothers whose kids have run out of ideas on what to do until school starts or for teachers who would like to extend the summer season with some outdoor art projects come September.-Winnipeg Free Press

From the Publisher

This book would be a life-caver for mothers whose kids have run out of ideas on what to do until school starts or for teachers who would like to extend the summer season with some outdoor art projects come September.

Winnipeg Free Press

Gr 3-6-An attractive, colorful compilation of art projects. Four major sections ("Digging Deep," "Going Green," "It's All Elemental," and "Fertile Ground") each contain more than a dozen activities and/or experiments. Good-quality illustrations and photos bring these ideas to life. An introduction discusses how to start a nature collection; respecting the environment; trying new tools, techniques, and materials; staying safe; and having fun. Most of the projects can be completed in 5 to 12 steps with materials either purchased at an art-supply or novelty store, or found outside. Topics include marbling, frozen patterned paper, flower prints, bubble painting, rock research, and ancient art. Children will polish their creative skills with a wide variety of artistic experiences, such as a secret garden, silly sprouts, terrific topiaries, beautiful batik, super spider's web, weathervanes, great flowing fountain, sparkling ice chandeliers, and more.-Augusta R. Malvagno, Queens Borough Public Library, NY Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

School Library Journal

On the premise that anything can be art, and art is anything, the author invites young enthusiasts to combine art materials and natural objects in 57 projects for the backyard, beach and park. Camp counselors may find inspiration for inexpensive nature projects, but home users will find the directions sketchy and the clean-up problematic. Some projects could cause sticky consequences; for example the "sculpting experiment," in which white glue, water and sand are mixed so the artist can sculpt castles that harden and last. Nothing is said about how to deal with glue-hardened sand on hands, clothes, countertops or utensils. Other projects include weaving with twigs, making a junk fountain, pressing leaves, creating dye from plants and sketching or photographing decaying vegetables. The brief text is embellished with many muddy photos and drawings. The afterword indicates that the projects are an outgrowth of the Avenue Roads Art School in Toronto, a place "where everyone becomes an artistic adventurer." A glossary of art terms and an index are provided. A minor effort. (Nonfiction. 9-12)

Kirkus Reviews