Thumbs Up!

We're big fans of Ed Emberley's drawing books here. Bud loves Make a World, with its step-by-step lessons for drawing simple figures which can be endlessly combined to create different scenes. And now both he and Sis love the thumbprint books--you know the ones where you put down an ink thumbprint and add some details to make anything from a cowboy (oops, that again!) to a frog. We prop the book up in my cookbook holder and the kids go to town making thumbprint worlds. And today we did it for their birthday invitations, which the kids covered with fish, turtles, frogs, birds, penguins, whales, ducks, and other critters. Some are much more legible than others; some more smudged. All were fun to make.