Betsy Andrews Etchart

Wtf. Seriously????

Random cut-out pieces of cardboard box become cool fish wearing shades and

so many other things in the minds and hands of kids!

I sliced up some boxes in randomly shaped pieces large, medium, small, taught basic notches to connect, and saw the pieces turn into great stuff in the hands and imaginations of my ColorWheels kids today. #artteacher #elementaryart

Congratulations!

OR who has a cold tuckus OR who simply feels the joy of pants!

Beautiful—and I love that it’s on paper.

I’ve been waiting ten years for this book. Thank you!

Back-to-school wiener dogs ( and a mouse, an alligator, a unicorn, a shark…) celebrate the start of classes for ColorWheels. They’d be awesome PB characters. I’ve got 85 artists on my rosters this semester at 4 schools and they’re already teaching me tons. #elementaryart #artteacher #kidlit

LETTERS FROM SPACE by Clayton Anderson (& Susan Batori)
Imagine . . . letters from space ABOUT space.
(2020, Sleeping Bear Press)

#PB #picturebooks #childrensbooks #kidsbooks
#kidlit #KidLitCommunity #kidlitillustrators #kidauthors
#kids #teachers #librarians #parents

Hilarious illustrations, and I must say, I had not known your head swells for the first few days at zero gravity. Picture books are my fave source of knowledge.

This morning I brought Recycle Robots to St. Peter’s Summer Camp in Litchfield Park, Arizona—so much fun watching campers create characters out of trash. Bonus#1: two IKEA bags of recycle out of my garage. Bonus #2: my teenager made the montage & taught me how to use CapCut. #artteachers #kidsart

These are crafty fish that may or may not be named Jeff, but you can trust them to keep toddlers happy for THIRTY MINUTES while small humans practice making choices, using fine motor skills, and exercising creative problem solving skills. @Neil Sharpson and @Dan Santat. #artteacher