What Extraordinary Art Projects for Kids Unleash Creativity?

Kids create their own illustrations on each page of a printable coloring drawing page based on their understanding of the words on each page.

Each page is part of the picture book quality story but without the pictures.

Your child becomes the artist.

What, your child is afraid of drawing?

She thinks her work is crappy?

Many kids do have this fear. But as loving mom, your job is to encourage her.

Follow this link to All About Drawings, which offers inspiration to draw.

Explore art by starting with the simplest medium of pencil. This site is designed to encourage new artists by featuring lots of easy pencil drawings and outlines to copy.

The artist, a mom, grandmother, and self-taught artist, makes learning to draw a snap.

And I've actually started following her first suggestion (not ready to show it to you!)

Bingo and Bonner also has border designs on each page of the following projects so your child can color them. As she's coloring these pages, ideas jump into her heart and mind on how to draw the illustration in the white space on each page.

Take a look at what I mean.

ATTN Parents/Teachers/Students: Each page is 11" by 8 1/2", so you'll see the PDF actually as an 8 1/2 by 11, so when you print it, your child will have the full page to play and create on.

Here's the first page in Bingo and Bonner, a Read-Me, Draw-Me Book, with 23 additional coloring pages to print from this printable coloring drawing online book.

I'm making these available as online downloadable printable e-Books, excellent examples of kids art activities and kids art at home projects.

However as I stated on printable coloring page, you must be sensitive to the child or children involved.

Warning to Parents/Educators

If after following the above link (you did check out All About Drawing, didn't you), your child still has fears, read on.

Not all children feel comfortable or confident in drawing their own pictures.

Some kids feel threatened or intimidated by the lack of the customary lines and figures that make up kids coloring pages and coloring books.

As parent or teacher, you can determine if asking your child to create her own illustrations is putting too much stress on her.

You don't want to add stress to children's lives, by forcing them into an uncomfortable situation.

However, you can point out to the child that border designs on each page give ideas of what to draw and create.

And now with BINGO AND BONNER, I've added coloring border designs, so kids can begin by what they're accustomed to, i.e., coloring pictures.

Sometimes just looking at the border design (even without coloring them) for a few minutes ignites a spark of confidence to draw something and stretch her abilities beyond a simple coloring page.

Use your intuition and knowledge of the child who may not want to draw the picture to determine if you can encourage her to draw it or not.

Hopefully, the addition of the coloring border designs will inspire your child's creativity and a willingness to try her hand.

Remember to remind her there is no right or wrong illustration. These art projects for kids do not intend to create competition or a sense that some art is better or superior to other art.

My intention is to inspire young artists to express their creativity!Here are more sample pages from Bingo and Bonner .

As well, it comes with a unit study on friendship, consisting of 15 activities, exercises and games that deepen character traits such as forgiveness.

Here are a few sample pages from the friendship unit study .

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