Mouse Paint Board Book

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and therefore making Mouse Paint / Pintura de raton a simple and wonderful dual language book (and also a book that in my opinion would also work very well for introducing colours in elementary level Spanish language courses).

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. One day, the cat takes a nap and the three little mice discover three jars of paint and climb right in. Simplicity reigns in Walsh's brief tale, and a feeling of joyful discovery pervades her broad lines and expressive figures. The story is about three white mice standing on a white piece of paper camouflaging themselves so that cat won’t see them.December 2015 update: Read this again while our youngest and our two-year-old niece were otherwise engaged playing with wooden puzzles in the board book section of our local library. Children will catch onto the pattern with the authors repetitious words and the coaxing illustrations.

Yes and definitely, I totally, I absolutely adore (and also do appreciate) how Ellen Stoll Walsh in her 1989 board book Mouse Paint (nicely small in circumference and as such perfect little hands, for toddlers to hold by themselves, on their own) with very simple mouse themed contents (with words) and delightfully expressive accompanying artwork introduces both the primary colours of red, yellow, blue and also demonstrates how mixing these then creates entirely different hues (that yellow combined with red makes orange, that yellow mixed with blue makes green, and that blue and red create the colour purple), with Mouse Paint presenting itself as engaging, with a lovely sense of both textual and visual fun, as educational without any kind of annoying didacticism and heavy messaging. They first dive into the paint to color themselves, then splash in paint puddles and discover that primary colors, when combined, make new colors. As an art teacher, I have read this book to hundreds of kindergartners over the years before teaching primary and secondary color theory. Mouse Paint was perfect for this kid, who told me that it is his destiny to be an artist: the pictures are simple, beautiful, and dynamic. The intense levels of pigmentation used for all the paint bases gives an incredible depth of colour, whichever format you prefer using.It’s perfect for kitchen cabinets, skirting boards, interior and exterior doors, stairs, floors, wooden furniture, metal radiators and any other interior or exterior wood or metal surface. For when in Mouse Paint the three mice start playing with and in the paint jars and become colourful and thus no longer white, the cat is then not shown by Stoll Walsh as suddenly noticing and trying to chase the mice, the cat just seems to totally disappear, leaving kind of an annoying textual thread going nowhere (which does not really bother my inner child all that much but certainly is a bit frustrating to and for my adult reading self). The story is cute, the illustrations are bright and fun and we laughed when we saw that the mice took a bath in the cat's water dish. LE: After the story you can take the children to the art center where you will have paper and finger paint ready for them.