Storybook Art by MaryAnn Kohl
updated March 1, 2010
Chapter 1: Paint
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Color Outline
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Acetate Layers
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* I prefer Eric Carle's "Slowly, Slowly, Slowly," said the Sloth
Multi Paint Picture
Carousel
by Donald Crews
Motion Effect
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Jackson Piglet Wall Painting
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Corduroy Print Bear
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Cat & Mouse Prints
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Winter Mist
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Collagraph
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Decorating Cookies
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Pencil Watercolor
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Alpha Baggie Book - see this activity
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Glue Block Print
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Blue Fingerdots
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Patchwork Parade
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Brown Bag Painting
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Shaded Potato Print - see this activity
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Wipe Away Fingerpaints
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Stencil Trees
It Looked Like Spilt Milk
by Charles G. Shaw
Shaving Cream Puffs
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Lights & Snow
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Window Letters
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Mixing Mouse Tracks - see this activity
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Mono Color Painting
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Etch and Paint Plaster
Chapter 2: Draw
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Border Extension
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See Through Scribbles
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Cross-Hatch & Stipple
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Fancy Words
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Behind the Scene
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Four Square Seasons
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Spot Dots
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Talking Bubbles
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Bold Marking
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Accented Pencil
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Mirror Reflection
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All in a Row, One Line Design
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Homemade Scratchboard
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Crayon Rubbing Scene
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Embossed Drawing
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Charcoal Sketch - see this activity
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*Iza Trapani's books are also good for this; we used
Froggie Went A-Courtin'
Illustrated Music
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Fantasy Architecture
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Key Element Color
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Shaded Watercolor
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Pen & Ink Humor
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Assembled Tree Rubbing
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Lightly Sketch
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Classic Illustrating
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Pattern Repeat
Chapter 3: Cut/Collage
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Realistic Lupine
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Mixed Collage Story
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Thick Paper Collage
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Count On Cut-Outs
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Letter Collé
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View of My Planet
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Collection Collage
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Photo Finish
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Memory Scrap Quilt
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Watercolor Snow Collage - see this activity
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Photo Story
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See Shapes
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Loving Family Photo Collage
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Outline Focus
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Peek-a-Boo Mitten
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Tissue Exposé
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Glittery Pieces
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Snakeskin Patterns
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Tankas
How Thunder and Lightning Came to Be: A Choctaw Tale
by Beatrice Orcutt Harrell
Fine Feather Collage
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Cut & Paste Scene
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Mystery Clips
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Fuzzy Collage
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Surreal Illusion
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Clone Collage
Chapter 4: Craft/Construct
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* I prefer Clare Beaton's Mother Goose Remembers
Stitching Time
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Balloon Sculpture
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3 D Feelie Bugs
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One of a Kind Artsy Shoes
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Crystal Snowflake
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ABC Sticks
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Handmade Paper
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Silly Spaghetti
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Calendar Hat
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Shoebox Bedroom
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Tea Set Clay
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Squeezy Inchworms
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Sand Sculpture
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Friendship Stick
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Assembled Noodles
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Pressed Clay Illustration
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Pop-Up Scene
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Rozan-Ji Garden
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The Kid in the Hat
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Snowy Layers
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Look Alike Assemblage
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Crazy-for-Crictor Socks
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Paper Plate Sculpture
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Bath-Time Paints
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Portraiture
My thanks to MaryAnn Kohl for sending me the links to five of these activities, available FREE on her website!
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