Ed Emberley's Great Thumbprint Drawing Book (Ed Emberley's Drawing Book Of...)

Highly recommend this book for "kids" of all ages. The author does a great job with his approach to creating great images that are easy and fun to do!

This book is TOO cute and FULL of clever ideas! The instructions are VERY clear and easy to follow.These ideas help make GREAT crafts for Mother's and Father's Day (especially for GRANDparents) as well as thank you gifts from a class or playgroup too!!Imagine a stuffed animal wearing a t-shirt with all different thumbprint characters!! For a child moving away or going to a camp all summer...to have a lovey that shows SO MANY people who love him/her!! This is a winner gift every time!This book has SO MANY perfect and creative ways to personalize a simple thumbprint! You will NOT be disappointed :D

I got this for my 5 year old for his birthday since I so fondly remember learning to draw things from the Ed Emberley Animals book when I was a kid. These are so fun and easy for young artists that he really got engaged with the book for about an hour. Then my 7 year old came home and wanted to try. Then both kids cut out their cute little creations.We've had the Ed Emberley Weirdos book for a while, which hasn't gotten much use (maybe a little advanced?). But after using the Thumbprint book, my 5 year old got out the Weirdo book and gave a few Weirdos a try. I highly recommend this Thumbprint book for your kids or to buy as a birthday gift for a child.

This edition has a new cover, but the red thumbprints and "ivy lou" are straight from the original, which could not possibly be improved. I still have my 1977 copy, which has black writing/drawing and red thumbprints.Although rainbow colors of washable ink pads are widely available now, you don't really need more than one color of ink (like the cover of the book, which makes me think of Easter eggs).My ink pad was red because that's the color we had in our office/school supplies that wasn't black. My drawings looked just like the book and red makes the black pen/pencil marks for drawn features stand out. I think any color that isn't black would work. Black or other dark colors would make it hard to see your marks, but feel free to use your kid's favorite color or whatever you already own in any medium shade. The color isn't important - it's just Step 1 to give you a shape to work with. Fingerprints are easy because they are already on our fingers, but if you fear inky kids, they could use any stamp, or a carrot or potato, or scrap shapes cut from other paper, to make the body shapes. But don't sweat it too much. Even permanent ink wears off a kid in a few days.This is one of the first You-Can-Do-This books for art I ever owned. And I only needed office supplies we already had, so no trips to the art store or special tools needed. One ink pad, some paper (pretty much any paper - empty the recycle bin at work if you want), any pen or pencil, and a couple of inky fingers is all you need to follow the step-by-step instructions to make any of the figures he shows, and about anything else you can think of. It's a few very short and do-able marks between blank page and identifiable drawing, even for little kids. (Or for us grown-ups who swear we can't draw.) I cannot recommend it enough!

Producto recibido en buenas condiciones y excelente para ayudar a los niños a desarrollar sus destrezas motoras.

This book is filled with creative designs. The designs are for older children 9+. I bought the book hoping it would have designs or ideas for much younger children like preschool (where thumbprint art is used all the time) to 2nd grade, but it didn't. I like the book, but I wouldn't buy another one. Perhaps the author makes one for younger artists that I didn't see.

I had this book decades ago, and love having it again. Adorable, simple thumbprint sketch directions. Great fun with kids’

This book is adorable. I have 3 nieces and 2 nephews that are stuck at home right now due to the pandemic. They couldn't wait to use this new book. They loved this book.

My grandson’s favourite. We not only follow the designs in the book but make up our own. He loves getting his fingers into the different ink pads.

Es un libro muy bonito que mi niña de 12 años y yo disfrutamos más que mi sobrinita de 4 años, pero es porque ella es muy inquieta e hiperactiva.

This is a really lovely book with lots of cute and easy ideas included. As soon as it arrived my 7 year old ran straight for paper and paints and spent quite a bit of time making fingerprint pictures with my 5 year old. The ideas are so simple so they are very achievable for younger children (or adults) and are super effective so they can make pictures they love 😀

Very good book and a very good choice for children.It's a very good book for pupils at school too. Great!

Una forma súper divertida de aprender a dibujar.Los niños más pequeños (4 años) han alucinado con sus propios resultados.