The Anti-Coloring Book of Exploring Space on Earth: Creative Activities for Ages 6 and Up

By Susan Striker

Here is an antidote to the kind of 'art' that tells kids to draw a triangle on top of a rectangle and call it a house. In these delightful pages, children-as well as adults-are encouraged to see buildings, gardens, rooms, and other environments in fresh, original ways. The book offers endless possibilities, and like it companions in the series, it is an irresistible 'open sesame' to the wonders of the imagination.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805014462
• ISBN13: 9780805014464
• Release Date: June 1980
• Publisher: Holt McDougal
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.6" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 6 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 5

Customer Reviews

Hooray for leaving the "Stay within the Line" mentality!

I would buy every young person I know this book if it were available. Creating and exploring in a young person is stiffled around age 6. I hear people say "I can't draw a straight line," or "I can't draw," or "I can't paint," and too bad their brain accepted teachers/parents lack of encouragement to color anything, draw anything, go beyond the lines. The Anti-Coloring Book of Exploring Space on Earth by Susan Striker should be given to every school child. The pictures are started, and the child/person is encouraged to complete from with descriptions like, "Would you like to live on a houseboat?", "Build a Treehouse where you can go and be alone," "Decorate this Dollhouse," "The people who live in this apartment have commissioned you to paint a modern masterpiece." "You are a scientist who has established a model community for life under the sea."An exciting alternative to passive, mindless "art."