Adventures in Art: Art & Craft Experiences for 8-To 13-Year Olds (Williamson Kids Can!) [Paperback]

Susan Milord (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1997 | Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: Williamson Kids Can!

A true artistic adventure for kids into a world of paints, pastels, ethnic and recycled art, sculpture, 3-dimensional art, still life, perspective, charcoal, landscapes, batik, silk-screen, and much more. Encourages kids' natural creativity while exposing them to the styles of art through the ages.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 3-8-- Milord targets a wide range of experience and capabilties with this comprehensive effort that includes 101 craft ideas. Because of the difficulty of language and the assumption of prior knowledge, only middle-school and junior-high age crafters will be able to use it independently. Activities are easily accessible through the inclusive index. Parents and teachers will appreciate the "Tick Tock" feature; a time-frame page lists each adventure according to the hours needed for completion. When recipelike instructions appear on a single page with large simple illustrations, in three-column form, the information is easily digested. But too often the steps flow over to the next page and drown in the beginnings of another craft. Margin facts appear every now and then and are often more interesting than the core information. Organization is generally good, however, and those looking for project ideas will find this encyclopedic guide much like a new cookbook--filled with endless possibilities. --Fran Powell, George G. White School, Hillsdale, NJ
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Review

" ... this is one rainy-day book that will keep children hoping for more rain." -- American Bookseller

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Williamson Publishing Company; Revised edition (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1885593139
• ISBN-13: 978-1885593139
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,018,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME Adventures in Art!, May 2, 2000

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This review is from: Adventures in Art: Art & Craft Experiences for 8-To 13-Year Olds (Williamson Kids Can!) (Paperback)

I highly recommend this art activity book. The ideas are original and fun and yet they are not exhausting to complete. As I homeschool our girls, I have found this book to be a great asset in my thematic approach to learning.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Challenging art projects for older children, July 28, 2002

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This review is from: Adventures in Art: Art & Craft Experiences for 8-To 13-Year Olds (Williamson Kids Can!) (Paperback)

This is another excellent book in this Williamson art series for children. The cover says it's for ages 8-13, and I'd like to emphasize that it's definitely not for younger children, although a few can be adapted for younger children. Many projects are challenging enough that high school students and adults should enjoy them also.

Many of the projects take a definite commitment to time and care in order to have good results. There are some that require meticulous attention to details and fine motor coordination. Quite a few projects use an exacto knife to cut our small pieces of paper or poster board. There is a soap carving which requires a paring knife. Other potentially difficult and dangerous materials and equipment include glass sheets, turpentine, bleach, nail polish, cooking oil and paraffin heated for making candles, dye, needle and thread, tiny bits of paper for mosaic, wire cutters, pliers, handsaw, drill for a wooden birdhouse, nails for piercing a metal can, vegetable peeler, iron.

There are paintings and drawings using special techniques with pencil, paint, charcoal and markers, as well as many 3-dimensional projects that use folding, carving, building and other methods. Although there is an excellent variety of projects that can turn out very satisfyingly, there should be supervision for many of them, especially for younger children.