A year ago I had started doing a few art classes in my home for other homeschoolers. My kids are very interested in art and are fairly good at drawing and painting. However as a result of the art class I Had I was able to see kids who had varying degrees of interest and talent. I basically feel that anyone can draw as long as they have an interest and willingness to work at it. One day I received an email about a book called WordToons by Wayne Logue. I was asked if I would be interested in using this book with my kids so that I could give my opinion on it . The author gave me a copy of the book and my kids and I proceeded to try the different lessons in it. Basically you take simple words and create a cartoon-like drawing out of it. Just after doing the drawing once or twice by following the instructiosn dan examples, my kids were drawing all sorts of variations and making up entire pictures with what they learned. Kind of reminded me of the kid’s program, WordWorld, which happens to be one of our favorite PBS shows. The book itself provides visual step by step instructions to take a word such as dog and create a cartoon out of the word you printed. We really enjoyed the lessons we finished. If your kids are learning to spell and read this could have the potential to be a great help for kids with various learning styles. It also is a good tool for just showing kids that they too can draw successfully.
If you are interested you can download a free sample from their website to be able to see this for yourself at http://wordtoons.com/.

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