Dream It! Draw It! Think It! Do It!
COURTNEY WATKINS
Age Range: 7 to 12
Lexile Measure: N/A (What’s this?)
Pages: 96
Type: Activity Book
Publication Date: October 18, 2016
ISBN: 9781449480349
Dream It! Draw It! Think It! Do It! delivers wonderfully unexpected and entertaining creative adventures that flex kids’ mind muscles and propel them into action. Author Courtney Watkins empowers kids to see their world in new and different ways through handwritten questions, musings, challenges, and illustrations. Some of the fun activities include: drawing ice skating chairs, decoding top secret messages, designing obstacles courses in unusual places, creating new products for time travel, and engaging in poetry slams with a friend.
“The loose, black and white line art, hand-lettered text, and a quirky sense of humor give this activity book a casual, off-the-cuff vibe, as though readers are borrowing Watkins’s own notebook.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Watkins’s ideas are . . . ideal for inspiring kids to think in unusual and unique ways and for giving them the confidence to express themselves with their own individual style.”
— Discovery Award for Excellence
About The Author
Courtney Watkins is the premier Thinker Upper! Having built an original creative empowerment brand, Courtney propels kids and adults alike into creatively inspired lives. As an author, artist, teacher and TV personality– she is the go-to resource to spark BIG thinking. Courtney has ignited programs for Disney, CBS, The Jim Henson Company, Crane, Jiff, Target, Andrews McMeel Publishing and Little, Brown & Co.
Dream It! — “Drawing with Numbers” and “Superpowers” Print-Out Activities
Dream It! Draw It! Think It! Do It! delivers wonderfully unexpected and entertaining creative adventures that flex kids’ mind muscles and propel them into action. In this free printable activity, you’ll find two sheets of imagination-engaging fun. On one side, learn how to draw a chef with only one type of ingredient: numbers! Then flip the page to keep creativity going with a superhero activity!
Author and Thinker Upper Courtney Watkins empowers kids to see their world in new and different ways.
Ages 7–12.
Dream It! — “Create a Critter” and “Rippling” Printable Activities
Dream It! Draw It! Think It! Do It! delivers wonderfully unexpected and entertaining creative adventures that flex kids’ mind muscles and propel them into action. In this free printable activity, you’ll find two sheets of imagination-engaging fun. On one side, a “create a critter” drawing challenge perfect for pepping up an afternoon at home! Just go into the kitchen, choose your favorite gadget, trace around its shape, and turn it into a friendly critter. Then flip the page to keep creativity “rippling” by extending a design to the very edges of the page. Color it in and share with a friend to keep the “ripples” going!
Other activities from the book include a “boomerang” feature that encourages acts of kindness (because “what goes around comes around”), scavenger hunts for various settings, and poetry slams. Nods to German, French, and Spanish phrases are just a few ways this book aims to stretch readers’ vocabularies and intellects, even as it stays committed to off-kilter creative fun.
Author and Thinker Upper Courtney Watkins empowers kids to see their world in new and different ways.
Ages 7–12.
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