Kumon My First Book of Drawing (Kumon Workbooks)

The Kumon series of books works by empowering children to succeed on their own. The books get successively more difficult as they build upon skills learned from the previous pages, so that by the end of the book the child has a sense of accomplishment and be ready to move on to the next level. The instructor is more of a mentor or coach than a teacher in a classroom.This drawing book is designed to help teach basic drawing skills by tracing simple shapes. There are four blocks showing the stages of how to draw each object. The last block is the completed drawing and the child is encouraged to color it in. The book begins with an apple which is basically a circle with a stem. It shows how to draw it in a three step process: first draw a circle, then add an arc at the top for a 3d effect, then one more small arc for the stem. It encourages tracing over their drawing on the front of the page, then on the back there's a space to try it again for practice. There are 40 drawings in this book and they get progressively harder as you go on. By the end of the book there are pictures of block houses, tea kettles, and dolls.Here are the drawings included in this book so you can see the progression:An apple, baseball, balloon, orange, cherry, egg, snow cone, acorn, mushroom, eggplant, hot dog, strawberry, hamburger, boot, cap, watermelon, shirt, mouse, bear, dog, fox, cupcake, tulip, spoon, pan, whale, kite, mug, lunch box, baby bottle, key, bat, glasses, parachute, cat, clown face, die, blocks, kettle, and doll.This is a great workbook for any child who is interested in learning how to draw and developing pre-writing skills!

I agree 100% with other 2 5-star ratings ( Ursula K. Raphael "AstraDaemon" (USA) and Mommy of Four) - this is an excellent book for development of artistic ability as well as fine motor skills. Child learns to follow on the line and sees clearly the progression of the drawings. Before this book my daughter would get frustrated while drawing because she wasn't seeing the object immediately. By putting the drawing as 4 steps, with each the steps being repeated until the 4th step, she realises now that it may not look like a fox, a hotdog, a boot, a bat, etc with the first few lines but you add detail to get what you want.Yes you would need clean sheets to do additional drawings. Plus my daughter loves to gift drawings to people! so lots of additional pages for additonal drawings. I got crayons for her white board so she'll use that as well. Parents pay attention too, because you may be called upon to draw when their memory doesn't remember the stroke to make to get the picture!40 day-to-day items: food, fruit, animal faces, toys, utensils. I'm surprised that KUMON doesn't have a more advanced set of drawing books to continue the progression as they do alphabet-sentences, numbers-multiplication, number games-dollars & cents. I still need help with a princess, horse (full body), house, more full body animals, dragons, etc.

My kids like this book. I like this book. Both are important if I'm going to be engaged in any project or learning time with them. I have a 4.5 yr old and a 7 yr old. The book is far more engaging for the 7 yr old. She is a bit of an advanced at freehand drawing and will meticulously copy a picture from a book on to her own paper. She has the concentration and the interest level to know that if she sticks with it, the results will come. The 4.5 yr old WANTS to draw the same way, but simply does not have the control over her drawing instruments. She's a bright child, but can not seem to grasp the step by step concept of making the shapes that build the object in a frame-by-frame basis. This could simply be because she's more of an early reader and doesn't have the spacial awareness yet to copy something she sees from one place to another because that part of her brain is not ready yet, but I'm thinking about the other kids in her day-care class and I know there would be few if any that could follow the steps required to use this book. That said, the drawings are more appealing to the age group of 3-4-5 than they are for what I believe to be the skill level, or age level for this process. Other than the age grading, it's an awesome book that covers more than just the combination of basic shapes to create something, like a bunch of circles and squares. There are more complex shapes combined to create drawings your kids will be really proud of. My advice, don't look at the ages printed on the book. Of course, this is a challenge when the kid using it reads the ages and says "HEY! I'm not 3 years old!!" That doesn't make them wan

I've ordered 7 Kumon workbooks so far. My 4 year old loves drawing and this seemed like a way to help expand her repertoire of things to draw. She puts her own twists on each one. They progress logically. I just copy each page as I have younger child that I plan to use this with as well. Each page shows an object then goes through a series of steps that the child traces until it is created. On the back of the sheet has an empty space for the child to draw the picture.as with all kumon workbooks, paper is thick and of great quality. I do wish the pages were perforated and the binding is really tight and awkward to do the pages while in - I copy them all.

After looking through the drawing material, I would recommend this book starting at age 5 or 6. Most kids in the age group that the book is recommended for don't have the fine motor skills to draw the pictures in this book. It does offer tracing but some pages ask the kids to draw an exact image of a picture presented.

Another great Kumon book! My son's drawing skills have improved dramatically since using this book. He has so much fun drawing and coloring the pictures. It breaks down each picture into four stages that are easy to follow and easy to comprehend. Each stage of the drawing builds on the previous stage. The book is set up so that the easiest drawings are at the beginning, and then they get progressively more challenging.

Ajuda as crianças obterem um traçado mais preciso. Prática necessária para a escrita.Altamente recomendo.Obs.: Os desenhos são caricaturados, portanto, quase não ajudam com o desenvolvimento do imaginário, porém para o intuito de facilitar o processo da escrita, tanto letras de forma quanto cursivas, eu altamente recomendo.

Excellent book that helped my 6 yr old son who is obsessed with only drawing all the mechanical and robotic things out of the Star Wars saga, to have a better appreciation of simple art like flowers and cupcakes and a cute little dog...so on Valentines Day I get hearts and flowers and pictures of a fruit basket and not a robot themed Valentine's Day card. The book gives a traceable step by step imitation of the object to be drawn then allows space for the child's own drawing. Great for practicing!

It teaches children to draw with 3 easy steps easy things like an apple and increases the challenges until the end of the book but nothing too hard.

Great, although my kid wasn't the sit down and draw for long periods of time so very few pages were finished.

Great book. Excellent price