Archives: Walter Foster Jr. Books
With Painting School, kids will discover how easy it is to paint anything—animals, people, nature, objects, and more—with simple steps and easy lessons!
Painting School provides the first steps to a lifelong love of art. Your child will learn how to paint anything they see in the world around them by following a few simple steps. This comprehensive, 240-page, flexi-bound art guide reveals how easy it is to paint, with easy-to-follow step-by-step projects, colorful art, and clear instructions.
Before the step-by-step painting projects, this book begins with the basics, such as the paintbrushes and paints to use, the differences between popular paint types, how to mix colors, what to paint on, and much more. Then painting class really begins! A variety of subjects are covered, from animals and people to nature and simple, everyday objects. Some of the projects include:
- Zoo animals, such as a panda and a lion
- Pets, such as dogs and cats
- People, such as kids, adults, and a jogger and a firefighter
- Fairy tale characters, such as a princess and a brave knight
- Mythical creatures, such as a mermaid and a unicorn
- Vehicles, such as a car and an ice cream truck
- Fruits and vegetables
- Plants, such as trees and flowers
- Dinosaurs, such as a Tyrannosaurus rex
Featuring more than 250 subjects, Painting School teaches young artists how to paint each one with clear, easy-to-follow steps. So grab a brush and let’s paint—school is in session!
Each page in this interactive handbook offers behind-the-scenes tidbits and trivia about the games that belong on your bucket list, along with parental rating guidelines, series background information, and storyline previews. Gamers can record their personal ratings of each series as they play their way through the list, making notes and critiquing the best and worst parts of each game.
All different types of video games are featured, including adventure, puzzle, platform, racing, and role-playing games. Both gaming newbies and more experienced players will love learning about the best games out there, and checking games off the list as they play them. Plus 101 Video Games to Play Before You Grow Up is the perfect way to discover new genres to explore next.
This guide book features games for just about every console from 1985 to today. No matter what system you have, this handy guide will help parents and kids alike choose the next best game to play.
Newly updated with original cover art, this freshly printed edition of The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel invites a new audience to read about the antics of our eponymous, furry, hero as the little mischief-maker escapes Shadow the Weasel and Redtail the Hawk. As with all Burgess’ charming tales, young readers will learn important lessons about curiosity, carelessness, and mistrust as well as true-to-life behaviors of our favorite woodland animals.
In addition to the beautiful, color illustrations of Maddie Frost, this edition of The Adventures of Catterer the Red Squirrel features the original black-and-white artwork by Harrison Cady. These are the very same illustrations you would find in the first edition of the Bedtime Stories, combining the vintage feel of these classic stories with modern sensibilities.
Let your imagination be your guide as you discover 12 clever cardboard craft projects for the entire family!
DIY Box Creations includes a variety of out-of-the-box cardboard creations for families to build together, transforming leftover boxes into an assortment of step-by-step projects. From planes, trains, forts, lemonade stands, and puppet theaters, have fun building memories and creativity with each step.
101 Bathroom Boredom Busting Activities encourages kids (and adults too!) to take however long they need to do their business—and stay entertained in the process with brainteasers, mazes, fun facts, jokes, and more!
Continuing the humorous and interactive101 Things series, 101 Bathroom Boredom Busting Activities features activities that can all be done while doing your “business” in the bathroom. From toilet paper crafts and origami to irreverent jokes, brain-training games and puzzles, and wow-worthy “did you knows,” you will spend hours whiling away the time on the toilet. 101 Bathroom Boredom Busting Activities lets you make the most of your private time with more than 100 bathroom-themed games, crafts, trivia, riddles, and jokes that will make even the most straight-laced parent crack a smile. Take however long you need to do your business—and stay entertained in the process!
Just some of 101 the bathroom-friendly activities included in this book are:
- Bathroom Detective spot the difference
- Toot, Toot! Word search
- Poodoku Sudoku puzzle
- In and Out maze
- Plumbing Problem jigsaw puzzle
- Bathroom Bingo
- Knicker Art connect the dots
- Poo poems
- Punny poo jokes
- Toilet paper tube crafts
- Pull-out poster
Live it up with the 101 Things series, filled with activities that celebrate childhood, discovery, and just plain having fun. These ready-made bucket lists for children are journeys through art, science, film, writing, magic, and all the memory-making and exploring that is the best part of childhood. Take one of these travel-friendly guidebooks with you and check off each adventure along the way.
101 Ways to Amaze & Entertain makes kids into magicians who are always ready with a trick or a gag. The easy-to-follow illustrations make learning magic simple!
Who isn't amazed by a perfectly pulled off magic trick? 101 Ways to Amaze & Entertain turns you into the charismatic magician who's always ready with a trick and clever quip. This magic guide is the perfect combination of tricks, jokes, pranks, and illusions that aren't only entertaining for you, but also acts as your manual to learning new tricks and jokes that will amaze and entertain your friends and family members.
With this book you can:
- Make a magic wand vanish up your nose
- Remove a ring from a piece of string
- Make predictions
- Read your friends’ minds
- Make one arm longer than the other
- Plus 96 other fun gags, magic tricks, and jokes to perform!
101 Ways to Amaze & Entertain can help you become a confident, funny magician by showing you unique tricks and gags with clear, easy-to-follow instructions and humorous illustrations. It provides tips on effectively telling jokes, how to deal with hecklers, as well as step-by-step instructions for 50 magic tricks. Additional instructions include performance tips that help you to create a complete magic act.
Once you master the tricks, jokes, pranks, and illusions in this book, you will be able to amaze your friends and family! All you need is some skill and confidence and you’ll be surprising and making people laugh in no time.
With 8 step-by-step projects and a gallery of more than 30 portraits to inspire, DIYDog Portraits will show children how to turn the love for their pet into a timeless work of art.
There is something special about the relationship between a child and their dog. Dog Portrait DIY pays homage to this relationship by teaching children and their parents how to express their puppy love through art. An interactive guide on how to design, draw, and create dog portraits in a variety of mediums and techniques, Dog Portrait DIY is sure to please dog-lovers of all ages, and inspire artists both young and old. With 8 step-by-step dog portraits in pencil, pastel, paint, and even paper mosaics and a gallery of more than 30 portraits to inspire, this how-to book will show children how to turn the love for their pet into a timeless work of art.
Discover the wonders of the animal kingdom with more than 175 awesome animals to draw, a sticker challenge, a poster to hang on your wall, and fun animal trivia. This high-quality book has colorful, sturdy pages jam-packed with zoological information and simple step-by-step drawing projects. Each section features animals from across the seven continents, providing natural history information in addition to step-by-step drawing lessons of each featured creature. There is a double-sided poster showing where all these animals live, and sticker pages too! All you need to do is find the correct spot in the book to place each sticker. Can you complete the challenge?
This book includes unique critters in addition to more well known animals. With A World of Animals, you will get a general introduction to a wide variety of animals from around the globe, while learning geography, various animal habitats, and facts about the animals themselves. Best of all, the modern art style makes it easy to draw each animal, no matter your skill level!
From Africa, draw the:
- Elephant
- Ostrich
- Dung beetle
- Zebra
- Leopard
- And more!
- Camargue horse
- Bottlenose dolphin
- Tawny owl
- Red squirrel
- Fire salamander
- And more!
- Wild yak
- Panda
- Sand grouse
- Tiger
- Finless porpoise
- And more!
- Monarch butterfly
- Moose
- Caribbean reef shark
- Alpaca
- Piranha
- Toucan
- Sloth
- And more!
- Dingo
- Kangaroo
- Clownfish
- Kiwi
- Crocodile
- And more!
It’s cute. It’s spooky. And it’s candy. What could be sweeter? Creepy Candy Coloring & Sticker Book—the official coloring book of the animated YouTube series Creepy Candy—lets kids color, collect, and laugh along with a cast of delightfully haunted sweets. Starring Sarah Bellum, Icky, Yicky & Yuck, Buzz the fly, and more, this gang loves candy almost as much as causing chaos (the safe, giggle-inducing kind!).
This fun-filled book includes:
- 96 pages of monstrously adorable artwork to color
- 100+ stickers featuring creepy-cute characters
- Premium paper suitable for crayons, markers, pencils, and gel pens
- Perfect-for-sharing one-sided designs, great for crafts and card-making
- All treats, no tricks: easy fun for fans ages 4 and up
Whether your kid’s a year-round Halloween fan or just in the mood for something delightfully eerie, Creepy Candy Coloring & Sticker Book brings the sweet, spooky fun with every page. Great as a party favor, a rainy day project, or a delightfully weird gift.
With Learn to Draw Dinosaurs, you can discover how to draw all of your favorite dinos step by easy step!
Perfect for young artists-in-training, Learn to Draw Dinosaurs offers a comprehensive drawing experience that includes step-by-step lessons, as well as full-color illustrations, fun facts, trivia, quizzes, and much more. Children will enjoy the 64 pages of drawing instruction for a variety of dinosaurs, including:
- Ankylosaurus
- Pteranodon
- Dimetrodon
- Maiasaura
- Velociraptor
- Stegosaurus
- Brachiosaurus
- Allosaurus
- Mamenchisaurus
- Compsognathus
- Iguanodon
- Quetzalcoatlus
- Styracosaurus
- Parasaurolophus
- Baryonyx
- Kentrosaurus
- Utahraptor
- Triceratops
- Pachycephalosaurus
- Tyrannosaurus Rex
- Polacanthu
- Ornithomimus
- Protoceratops
- Lambeosaurus
- Troodon
- Giganotosaurus
- Spinosaurus
- Albertosaurus
The book opens with a brief description of basic drawing tools and some sample drawing exercises to warm up. Each drawing lesson begins with a basic shape, such as a square, circle, or triangle, and progresses to a finished piece of dino artwork, making it easy for children to follow along. Along the way, engaging text describes interesting details and fun facts about each dinosaur. With a mix of art instruction and fun trivia, Learn to Dinosaurs is the perfect way for children to discover more about their favorite dinosaurs, in addition to developing their artistic talents.
The Learn to Draw series offers an exciting selection of lifelike drawing projects for children, including dog, pets, cats, horses, wild animals, moving machines, and more. Step-by-step illustrations demonstrate how to start with a basic shape and progress to a realistic finished colored artwork. Fun facts, trivia, quizzes and full-color photographs round out this multidimensional approach to art and learning.