Show-How Guides: Egg Decorating: The 18 Essential Designs & Techniques Everyone Should Know! - Softcover

Kurilla, Renée

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250784360 ISBN 13: 9781250784360

Publisher: Odd Dot, 2022

Synopsis

SHOW-HOW GUIDES: EGG DECORATING is a primer for curious minds with a clear, fun graphic style that invites any kid to get started designing and decorating eggs.

This pocket-sized 101 includes a curated collection of 18 essential dying and decorating techniques. Every step is illustrated, allowing kids to easily master the basics, regardless of how they learn.

Readers will learn to dye, dip, and paint dazzling eggs with natural dyes, food coloring, glitter, glue, and other glitz, cut-paper crafts, and more.

SHOW-HOW GUIDES offers visual, step-by-step introductions to skills that every kid should know―from hair braiding and paper airplanes, to drawing animals, pumpkin carving, gingerbread houses, and more! Whether you’re a second grader learning to make friendship bracelets for the first time or an adult looking to master the art of knots, these comics will give you the skills you’ll treasure through childhood and beyond.

About this title

About the Authors

Renée Kurilla has illustrated many books for children, including Margarita Engle's Orangutanka, Lisl H. Detlefsen's Right This Very Minute, and her own graphic novel, The Flower Garden. She, her husband, and their fluffy cat, Timmy, can be found in Boston, Massachusetts, approximately 9,410 miles from the Borneo rain forest.

Keith Zoo is an illustrator living near Boston, MA. For the past decade, he's been the Lead Artist at FableVision Studios, working on a full range of things, from character design to animation layout, interactives and design. When he's not there, he loves spending his time drawing monsters, goblins and other silly things. To check out more of Keith's work, head on over to his website.

Reviews

Gr 2-6-This guide provides detailed step-by-step instructions on how to dye, paint, and embellish eggs using a wide variety of techniques. Each topic is covered in a numbered grid, with blue-and-white cartoon-style illustrations depicting each step of the process. Techniques include: boiling eggs; dyeing eggs with food coloring; using natural dyes; painting eggs (the book warns not to eat these); stamping eggs; creating colorful patterns with whipped cream, aluminum foil, or bubble wrap; decorating eggs with pompons, yarn, and paper; games to play with decorated eggs; and how to make stuffed eggs. VERDICT With its clean, kid-friendly layout and clear, detailed instructions, this guide will appeal to families looking for new ways to decorate eggs for Easter and other occasions.-Ashley Larsen α(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Edition details

• Publisher: Odd Dot
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250784360
• ISBN 13: 9781250784360
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Zoo Keith
• Number of pages: 48