Momoko Kudo

Make art with your hands and feet! is an art pad with a difference. The reader is encouraged to draw around his or her fingers, thumbs, hands, toes or feet to complete the 32 pictures. Hand- and finger-prints can be made with paint, too. Once the images are complete the pages can be personalized with the childs name and/or messages for family and friends, and torn out to be given as gifts, or simply stuck on the wall. Some pages have a space for the readers age to be inserted, giving them a unique and personal record. The reader is called on to complete the zany images, from reindeer with hand- print antlers to foot-print ghosts, and from jelly-fish thumbs to finger space rockets. There are whole families of toes too. Each picture has an icon to show the child what to do, whether to draw around or print with their hands, fingers, thumbs, toes or feet.

Based on the idea of the seaside photo booth, Making Faces! is a fill-in art pad that's hands on and great fun. There are 32 pictures to complete. At the beginning of the book, a page explains how the book works and suggests ideas for colouring in the pages. Children complete a picture, then tear off the sheet and poke their face through the hole. They turn themselves into kings and queens wearing crowns, astronauts wearing bubble helmets, and flowers with pretty petals. They colour in floppy ears to become rabbits, shaggy manes to become lions and pointy horns to become dinosaurs. The pictures can be personalized with messages to give to family and friends.