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

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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."

My fault for not looking more closely, but I was misled by the title. I thought this would be a book that I could use with a unit study on the Solar System and Astronomy, but it is about a different kind of "space" (Architecture & Design). There is only one activity that has to do with designing a spaceship.