Many art books for children are available and they not only teach kids about artists, they also inspire children to try different art methods and media.
Students love stories and reading them art stories is a terrific way to teach them about famous artists.
Art experiences teach kids to solve problems, to share and take turns, to fine tune their small motor skills, to communicate their thinking and to express their feelings and emotions.
With younger children, the process of making a picture, not the final product, is what is important.
Tip!! If you’re wanting bright, clean looking art for a bulletin board, watch the students as they’re creating and remove their papers before the papers get too muddy (be sure give them a new paper)!
Kid’s Art Books
Laurence Anholt is the author and illustrator of several children’ books about famous artists.
They include Degas and the Little Dancer, Leonardo and the Flying Boy, The Magical Garden of Claude Monet, and van Gogh and the Sunflowers.
Matisse the King of Color (Anholt’s Artists Books for Children Series)
The bright and cheerful illustrations in this kid’s art book reflect Matisse’s drawings, paintings, and collages. Facts about the artist’s life and style are also skillfully woven into the story and illustrations.
Cezanne and the Apple Boy (Anholt’s Artists)
Paul, the artist’s son, is the apple boy, who goes to visit his father where he paints on a mountainside. The book is sensitively written and contains a number of small reproductions of some of Cezanne’s famous paintings. For children ages 4-7.
I Spy Shapes in Art
This book helps children understand the use of shapes in creating pictures. The book grew out of a version of the kid’s game “I Spy” the author played with her children, using paintings by renowned artists such as Matisse, Georgia O’Keeffe, Henri Matisse, M.C. Escher and Andy Warhol. “By making these paintings accessible,” she writes, “I was enabling my children to build up a store of images in their own minds which must inevitably lead to some interest in fine art.”
Art and Max
Arthur is an accomplished painter and Max is a beginner. The book teaches children that art is creative and not all art has to be created the same way.
Lines that Wiggle by Candace Whitman
This art book for kids has delightful pictures that not only appeal to young children but also teach them about ways to use line in creating images. Great story!
Color Your Own Mary Cassatt Masterpieces
This series of art coloring books is geared to older students. Help them to become familiar with famous artists as they color pictures.
Marty Noble works for Dover Publications and she has compiled a series of art coloring book which features various artists and art styles, including steampunk, paisley, art nouveau, as well as art masterpieces. has delightful pictures that not only appeal to young children but also teach them about ways to use line in creating images.
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