By popular request, pattern artist Angie Grace brings you this special edition roomier and gentler companion volume to her popular book Centered (Angie's Extreme Stress Menders Volume 2). This book features a close-up look at the central circular design motif and is drawn with high visibility lines and larger coloring spaces - perfect for use with crayons and wide tipped markers by colorists of all ages and experience levels.Angie's Gentle Mood Menders series lets you enjoy your favorite Extreme Stress Mender designs when the demands in your life make it difficult to fit in long coloring sessions or to color tiny spaces. Relaxingly roomy, these designs are also ideal for coloring artists who like to personalize their coloring art even further using shading or tangle-style ink pattern techniques.

One day, as I was restacking my ever growing mountain of sketchbooks and papers packed full of tiny motifs, I realized that there will never be enough hours in the day to refine each one into polished line work and carefully balanced patterns. The rough sketches accumulate too fast - in notebooks, on the backs of envelopes, everywhere!I found myself growing increasingly unsettled until a conversation with my mother made everything crystal clear. She suggested that I make a series of books from all of these special little snippets and unpolished gems and share them as a behind the scenes peek into my private daily drawing through the years.I invite you to color along with me as I sort through sketchbook mountain and place these moments, fragments and doodles into mini galleries for us to enjoy. And while you color this set of motifs, I'll be busily tidying up my giant stash of small drawings - and creating new ones too, of course. Will I ever get caught up with all of this? Probably not, but it's going to be fun trying!

A perfect blend of detail, pattern and whimsy, Angie Grace brings you 50 original coloring designs suitable for adults and older children. In this volume you'll find repeating motifs, kaleidoscope inspired symmetry and delightfully doodled doily curves and swirls. Artwork is printed on one side of the page only and has been drawn with marker artists and colored pencil fans in mind. (Crayon artists, keep your sharpener handy!)

One day, as I was restacking my ever growing mountain of sketchbooks and papers packed full of tiny motifs, I realized that there will never be enough hours in the day to refine each one into polished line work and carefully balanced patterns. The rough sketches accumulate too fast - in notebooks, on the backs of envelopes, everywhere! I found myself growing increasingly unsettled until a conversation with my mother made everything crystal clear. She suggested that I make a series of books from all of these special little snippets and unpolished gems and share them as a behind the scenes peek into my private daily drawing through the years. I invite you to color along with me as I sort through sketchbook mountain and place these moments, fragments and doodles into mini galleries for us to enjoy. And while you color this set of motifs, I'll be busily tidying up my giant stash of small drawings - and creating new ones too, of course. Will I ever get caught up with all of this? Probably not, but it's going to be fun trying!

Teaching science to young children has long been an area of intense interest and concern to educators. Investigating Science with Young Children is specifically designed to address this concern in a practical, timely, and enjoyable way. Originally planned as an extension of the ten-booklet series, Science Experiences for Young Children (Teachers College Press, 1975), this book outlines 85 lively activities the teacher can use in guiding three-, four-, and five-year-olds in a fruitful exploration of science. The first part of the book presents a theoretical explanation of the process approach advocated by the author; the second, the activities themselves: Exploring Water, Mixing Colors, Setting Objects in Motion, to name a few. Investigating Science with Young Children offers an informed guide to resources necessary to implement an effective and productive science program. The book will help teachers fully understand the process approach and encourage them to develop their own science activities for the classroom. As the author states, “It is not enough to read about process science; you must use it to find out how much children enjoy and learn from this method.” This book will serve as a supplemental text for early childhood and primary science curriculum courses and as an invaluable resource for teachers. “There is much of value here.” —School Science & Mathematics “Teaching science by a process approach is an exciting adventure for both teachers and children. There is neither a predetermined sequence of events for children nor a specific set of directions for the teacher. Process science is an open-ended approach, and the direction learning will take is determined, for the most part, by the children.” —From the Preface

By popular request, pattern artist Angie Grace brings you a close-up look at 50 of the peachy cool design motifs featured in Nifty (Angie's Patterns Volume 10.) In this special edition companion book you'll find a jolly and jazzy jumble of winding weaves and knotty knick knacks, all presented in Angie's unique and whimsical pattern art style.Artwork is printed on one side of the page only and has been drawn with crayon and wide tipped marker artists of all ages in mind. Looking for something more challenging? Personalize your coloring art even further using your favorite marker shading or tangle-style ink pattern techniques!