With the Birds & Butterflies Drawing & Activity Book, learn how to draw 17 different bird and butterfly species with three methods: tracing, grid drawing, and step-by-step drawing! This interactive book is filled with 17 wonderful winged creatures you can learn to draw, from flamingos, owls, and toucans to monarch and peacock butterflies. Packed with fun facts, quizzes, and puzzles too, the Birds & Butterflies Drawing & Activity Book will provide hours of artistic entertainment! Inside, three different drawing methods are featured: tracing, grid drawing, and step-by-step drawing. Five tracing pages are included so you can trace. Then try the grid method—just copy the lines and shapes into the corresponding square on the blank practice grid provided. You will also learn the same step-by-step method used by professional artists: the basic shapes method. To draw birds and butterflies like a professional does, just follow the illustrations that show how each step builds upon the last to create a finished piece of artwork. Look closely at the new lines in each step and draw the bird or butterfly on the practice page provided after each basic shapes project. Find the technique that works the best for you, and draw your favorite birds and butterflies over and over again! There are plenty of practice pages and tracing paper inside, so you have all you need to get started right away. The simple instructions will guide you through each step, making it easy to follow along. Plus, learn some fun facts about the different birds and butterflies as you learn to draw them. Activities include a bird word search, a butterfly maze, a bird map match, spot the difference, and more. With fascinating facts, fun activities, and practice pages encouraging you to get started directly in the pages of the book, you can let your inner artist take flight with the Birds & Butterflies Drawing & Activity Book.

Featuring 600+ sketches depicting a vast array of beautiful botanicals, floral forms, plant structures, and more, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants is a must-have visual reference book for student artists, botanical illustrators, urban sketchers, and anyone seeking to improve their realistic drawing skills. Designed as a contemporary, step-by-stepguidebook for artists who are learning to draw botanical forms, Draw Like An Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants features an inclusive array of florals, ferns, succulents, and more, all shown from a variety of perspectives. Each set of illustrations takes you from beginning sketch lines to a finished drawing. Author Melissa Washburn is a skilled illustrator whose clear and elegant drawing style will make this a go-to sourcebook for years to come.

Stained glass artists use butterflies, birds, and flowers as motifs because of the beauty, vivid color, and texture these subjects bring to their work. In this collection of exquisite patterns, stained glass designer Connie Clough Eaton has put her aesthetic spotlight on these three motifs. Included are full-page designs of lush baskets, vases, and garden flower bouquets, as well as butterflies and birds, set amongst floral sprays and in various bucolic settings. Masterfully rendered for stained glass work, the beautiful graphics in this rich collection are also suitable for use in a myriad of other arts and crafts projects.

Expertly rendered illustrations of 43 species: monarch, buckeye, white admiral, olive hairstreak, ruddy daggerwing, mourning cloak, painted lady, more. Fact-filled captions by Monty Reid.

There's a plain little butterfly inside that needs your help! Without his colorful wings, he can't fly from flower to flower. But you can dress him up with this set of 72 reusable stickers in bright shapes and designs that will make his wings look as beautiful as nature intended.

With the Cats & Kittens Drawing & Activity Book, learn how to draw 17 different breeds of cats and kittens by tracing, grid drawing, and step-by-step drawing! This interactive drawing and activity book features a variety of cats and kittens you can learn to draw, from Persians and Ragdolls to Bengals and British Shorthairs. Filled with fun facts, quizzes, and puzzles, the Cats & Kittens Drawing & Activity Book provides hours of feline entertainment! Inside, three different drawing methods are featured: tracing, grid drawing, and step-by-step drawing. Five tracing pages are included so you can trace. Then try the grid method—just copy the lines and shapes into the corresponding square on the blank practice grid provided. You will also learn the same step-by-step method used by professional artists: the basic shapes method. To draw cats like the pros do, just follow the illustrations that show how each step builds upon the last to create a finished piece of artwork. Look closely at the new lines in each step and draw the cat on the practice page provided after each basic shapes project. Find the technique that works the best for you, and draw your favorite cats and kittens over and over again! Plus, learn some fun facts about the different cat breeds as you learn to draw them. Activities include a cat breed word search, a sudoku, and a maze to help a playful kitten find its way to a toy mouse. With fascinating facts, fun activities, and practice pages encouraging you to get started directly in the pages of the book, Cats & Kittens Drawing & Activity Book is the purrrfect book for curious budding artists.

Table of Contents Introduction Understanding Stress Causes of Stress Different Types of Stress --Acute stress --Eustress --Episodic stress --Chronic stress Young Adults: The Most Stressed-Out Age Group Serious hhealth consequences due to avoidance of treating stress Techniques of Managing and Reducing Stress --Exercising --Meditation --Self hypnosis --Quality sleep --Proper Nutrition --Positive Thinking --Have Fun How Coloring Helps Combat Adult Stress --How Does Coloring De-stress? --Coloring Books for Adults --Why You Should Embrace Coloring Conclusion Adult Coloring Book - Bird Patterns Author Bio Publisher Introduction I want to express gratitude to you for downloading the book titled, “ADULT STRESS AND EFFECTS OF COLORING.” This book contains proven strategies and steps that will ensure you are well equipped with the right knowledge and skills on how to reduce and manage stress effectively. You don’t have to allow stress to consume every bit of you because there is help within arm’s reach. You are not fighting this battle alone, almost everyone experiences some level of stress every once in a while in life and this has allowed for the opportunity to find solutions to the problem and therefore whether you suffer from mild or chronic stress there is an assurance of you getting better and all that is required from you is commitment and dedication towards smoothening your path to recovery. Your bills will never stop coming, you will never have more hours in a day, your career and family will always be demanding, and so the only change you can make is to learn how to handle your levels of stress because if you don’t the situation will end up being tragic. All the things that you are required to do have been well explained to you and the fact that you are reading this book is proof enough that you are willing to make your life better. All you need to do is to understand that you have the power within you to make a difference by ensuring you are able to reduce stress in one of the best possible ways to do so, that is through embracing coloring. The realization that you have the ability to put your life in control is always a stepping stone towards making every aspect of it better. All it requires is for you to take charge of your thoughts, emotions, and the way you react to life’s difficulties. Stress management and reduction always begins with you identifying the sources of stress in your life. By dealing with stress you improve your health and general well being. Stress is always a normal and healthy reaction to change or challenges but when it goes on for more than a few weeks it will affect your health and the earlier you deal with it the better. Every chapter of this book will ensure that it answers all your questions in relation to stress management and diminution. It will help you to get a deeper understanding of what stress is, whilst giving you the best techniques that will help you to deal with it once and for all. There is more to every chapter as you will be enlightened on why and how stress occurs, its signs and symptoms, and much more. It has been made an interesting and easy read for you and you are assured that you will fully benefit from the knowledge of its content.

This handbook presents a panoramic view of the field of giftedness. It offers a comprehensive and authoritative account on what giftedness is, how it is measured, how it is developed, and how it affects individuals, societies, and the world as a whole. It examines in detail recent advances in gifted education. The handbook also presents the latest advances in the fast-developing areas of giftedness research and practice, such as gifted education and policy implications. In addition, coverage provides fresh ideas, from entrepreneurial giftedness to business talent, which will help galvanize and guide the study of giftedness for the next decade.

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 Activity Book for National Interactive Science Olympiad (NISO) & other National/International Olympiads/Talent Search Exams based on CBSE, ICSE, GCSE, State Board syllabus &NCF (NCERT).

Build a Fine Home for your Feathered Friends Birds of all feathers will be flocking to your backyard to live in the beautiful houses and dine in the unique feeders you can build in just a few short hours. This book is chock-full of more than 50 simple projects for bird, butterfly and bat houses designed by the expert editors of Popular Woodworking Books. All you need are basic woodworking skills, tools, project materials and your imagination! Each design is guaranteed to attract specific birds in nearly every region, including Australia, Europe and the United States. Build a cottage for chickadees, nesting shelves and boxes for robins and mourning doves, basic bluebird houses—even a finch castle! Step-by-step color photos and easy-to-follow instructions will guide you along the way. Why spend your money on a ready-made birdhouse or feeder that looks like all the rest? In one afternoon, you can build a unique bird retreat that will soon turn your backyard into a birdwatcher's paradise!