Mouse Paint Board Book

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I thought it was a little confusing because the of pictures displayed and the mice jumping in the puddles could be misleading to young kiddos.

An engaging story about some mice playing with paints and trying to stay away from a cat at the same time. Good story to read aloud with children, especially if you can engage them to guess what colors come next. This environmentally friendly matt emulsion paint has a unique formulation, perfect for hard-working homes and public places. Perfect for fans of Lois Ehlert and Press Here, this charming board book gently explores the world of color and celebrates the joy of creativity.Walsh's cut-paper collage illustrations have bold colors and just the right simplicity for the storyline. ELLEN STOLL WALSH is the author and illustrator of many award-winning early concept books for young children, including Mouse Paint, Mouse Count, and the Dot and Jabber trilogy.

I thought this could be confusing because a kindergartner could have a hard time distinguishing who jumped in the puddle and what color they made. 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.When the mouse jumped in the red paint, I asked the kid to find the word "red", which I knew he could read; he found "blue" and "yellow" without being asked.

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. This playful, lucidly-written fantasy about three mice will entertain and amuse young readers while introducing them to a bit of color theory.It is suitable for interior use on newly plastered or previously painted walls and ceilings, for a beautiful, durable finish that is both wipeable and gently washable. 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 washed themselves off to become white again and decided to paint on paper instead to create the newfound colors.

They first dive into the paint to color themselves, then splash in paint puddles and discover that primary colors, when combined, make new colors.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. We've read this one a couple of times and our youngest was very proud that she could read it all by herself. I like this book because of its simplicity, sometimes there are some concept books who are good teaching a subject but are way to complex so what is good about this book is that it uses white mice as the main focus and then has them dip in and mix paint to make new shades of colors.