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