A Picture Book & A Project
Three Printable Activities to go along with reading Nubby by Dan Richards and Shanda McCloskey
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How To Draw A Pencil
Learn to draw Wolf’s pencil from LITTLE RED AND THE BIG BAD EDITOR by following these 5 simple steps!
LITTLE RED AND THE BIG BAD EDITOR coloring sheets and comics!
Have fun coloring and creating your own dialogue for the comics with these printable pages…
Ho-To-Draw Snuggle Bunny from Bedtime Ballet
I told you I was excited about this upcoming book! Here is a How-To-Draw Snuggle Bunny (the lovey toy that the main character carries with her all through the story in the pictures)! Click the image below to download and print. Happy drawing!
Let’s make zines! (printables)
Author-illustrators including myself, K-Fai Steel, Aram Kim, Mika Song, and Doug Salati teamed up with East Flagstaff Community Library and local schools in Flagstaff, Arizona to create a series of zines that align with some of our books! We call them QuaranZines because of when/why they were created. But now, they are available for everyone (even in Spanish)! So PRINT, FOLD, & have FUN!…
A New Pig (by K-Fai Steele) zines
No Kimchi For Me (by Aram Kim) zines
My Book Inspired A Makey-Makey Maker!
Photo by Colleen Graves
Photo by Colleen Graves
So many cool things have happened as a result of the writing/publishing of DOLL-E 1.0. I am so humbled to be a part of a circuit of creatives! So many hands touched this book from its conception to birth … critique groups, editors, art directors, publicists, my husband, my kids, my mom, sales departments, educators, librarians, bookstores, etc.!
And now another creative hand has tinkered with this book and made its existence even cooler … a real coder and “maker” … a girl named Colleen Graves! She creates activities and guides for Makey-Makey (that appears multiple times in the illustrations of Doll-E 1.0). So, Colleen was charged up to create an activity guide for creating your own doll or robot from spare parts and a Makey-Makey, then adding words to its database using Scratch! It. Is. RAD!
If you are a STEM or STEAM teacher, I truly hope you check this out and share your creations with us! It’s reading, creating, problem solving, programing, electronics, engineering, and fun all in one! Colleen suggests this project works best with grades 3-6. So without further adieu, here is the guide:
https://labz.makeymakey.com/cwists/preview/1657x
And here is Colleen’s blogpost about the inspiration behind creating the guide:
Making and Literacy Guide for Doll-E 1.0
Balancing Doll-E Robot STEM Activity!
Read “Doll-E 1.0”, then click on the FREE activity to print it onto card stock.
You’ll need:
- card stock
- crayons, colored pencils, or markers
- scissors
- poster putty (or glue)
- 2 pennies
How to draw Doll-E and Blutooth! (Free Activity Sheets!)
Learn to draw Doll-E and Blutooth characters from my new book, DOLL-E 1.0! Just print and enjoy! Happy drawing!
Nice work, Andre!
“Power Down, Little Robot” and draw a robot in 11 steps
“Power Down, Little Robot” by Anna Staniszewski and illustrated by Tim Zeltner
I spied this at Target and after I read it- I just had to have it for me and my girls! The text is super clever with play on techie words which is why this book will entertain an older picture book kid as well as a super young one! Usually, “going to bed” books seem a little young for my almost 5-year-old these days, but this was right on!
The little robot activates his stalling program when he doesn’t want to go to bed. All kids and parents can relate, and this is a really fun way to talk about it!
Mom scanning for rust monsters.
Now, try you hand at drawing a robot yourself…
-Shanda and HJ
PB&P: “Ladybug Girl and the Dress-up Dilemma” and make a silly skeleton!
Ladybug Girl and the Dress-up Dilemma
They’ve done it again! The husband and wife picture book team, David Soman and Jacky Davis, bring us another flipping BEAUTIFUL and thoughtful book to add to the Ladybug Girl series.
Lulu is sure of what she wants to be for Halloween… or is she? Time is running out and she is out with her family picking apples. Then something happens to remind Lulu of what she knew all along- who she is and what she wants to be for Halloween!
All the books in the Ladybug Girl series are on the longer side compared to most modern picture books, but I think it’s a good thing for kids’ attention spans to be challenged to stretch. It is written well, so you and your kiddo will barely even notice the longer format. My girl loves every second I read these books to her!
And here’s a little SILLY SKELETON you can make!
1. Download and print the sheet of bones (above) onto white card stock.
2. Have a parent help cut out all the bones.
3. Watch HJ’s demonstration here:
Kids can glue them together in a silly pose. (Use brads or string at the joints if you want the legs and arms to move.)
4. Hang it up for Halloween!
Happy Halloween from Shanda and HJ!
Laney and “Creepy” the dancing skeleton with a big heart! Great job!
