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Thursday, July 21, 2016

"B is for beaver" alphabet coloring page

This beaver is standing on the roof of his house.

Description of Coloring Page: small mammal, fur, sticks, damn , upper and lower case Bb, practice tracing the letters and sentence

How to Use This Alphabet Coloring Page:

Help little ones to become familiar with reading and writing every day. Don't be too demanding of any child under five years of age. Just repeat the words and point out the upper and lower case letters. Gradually he or she will begin to retain the information.
Talk about other words that start with the same letter.
Talk about how words may rhyme with the words used on the page.
Remind your young student of the shared experience both while you are coloring the sheet and practicing their writing and when you may be seeing or doing a similar activity depicted on the coloring page. Example: "Remember when we colored a beaver and wrote the word beaver?
Practice coloring and writing for just a few minutes everyday; especially during mid-morning when children are most alert and do not tire as easily. Practicing regularly helps develop their small motor skills and also conditions young students for academic environments.

Don't forget to drag the png. or jpg into a Word Document and enlarge the image as much as possible before printing it folks. If you have a question about this coloring page, just type into the comment box located directly below this post and I'll try to get back to you as soon as I can.

Flower of Abutilon Insigne

Flowering Abutilon Insigne.

Description of Botanical Illustration: Abutilon insigne is a mallow plant species described by Jules Emile Planchon. Abutilon insigne included in the genus klockmalvor, and the mallow family. No subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life.

Flowering Branch of Asimina Triloba

Sample illustration of flowering Asimina Triloba.

Description of Botanical Illustration: Asimina triloba, the pawpaw, paw paw, paw-paw, or common pawpaw, is a species of Asimina (the pawpaw genus) in the same plant family (the Annonaceae) as the custard-apple, cherimoya, sweetsop, ylang-ylang and soursop. The pawpaw is native to the Eastern, Southern, and Midwestern United States and adjacent southernmost Ontario, Canada, from New York west to southeastern Nebraska, and south to northern Florida and eastern Texas. The pawpaw is a patch-forming (clonal) understory tree found in well-drained, deep, fertile bottom-land and hilly upland habitat, with large, simple leaves and large fruits. The paw paw is the largest edible fruit indigenous to the United States. Read more . . .

The Flowering Branch of Bouvardia

An illustrated sample of Bouvardia.

Description of Botanical Illustration: Bouvardia is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It contains about 50 species of evergreen herbs and shrubs native to Mexico and Central America, with one species extending into the southwestern United States (B. ternifolia, in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas). The genus is named in honor of Charles Bouvard (1572–1658), physician to Louis XIII, and superintendent of the Jardin du Roi in Paris. Read more . . .

Botanical Print Coloring Index

Sample botanical print, hand-colored.

A botanical illustrator is a person who paints, sketches or otherwise illustrates botanical subjects. Typical illustrations are in watercolor, but may also be in oils, ink or pencil, or a combination of these. The image may be life size or not, the scale is often shown, and may show the habit and habitat of the plant, the upper and reverse sides of leaves, and details of flowers, bud, seed and root system.

Botanical illustration is sometimes used as a type for attribution of a botanical name to a taxon. The inability of botanists to conserve certain dried specimens, or restrictions on safe transport, have meant illustrations have been nominated as the type for some names. Many minute plants, which may only be viewed under a microscope, are often identified by an illustration to overcome the difficulties in using slide mounted specimens. The standards for this are by international agreement (Art 37.5 of the Vienna Code, 2006)...

Under this category I will include drawings of botanical studies that you may color, trace, add more visual and written details to in order to create your own collection of prints. Soon you will gain the confidence to draw your own originals for a journal or even to decorate your own home with. Botanical illustrations are also fun to trade and collect with friends and family members.

In the past, during my summer vacations, I often carried a tablet and art supplies on my husband's fishing and camping trips in order to record wild flowers from the surrounding pastures, river beds and mountains that our family would explore. Drawing and painting nature's small gems is a relaxing and inspiring way to pass the time on a lovely summer day.