My Crazy Inventions Sketchbook

My Crazy Inventions Sketchbook: 50 Awesome Drawing Activities for Young Inventors

Inventing is a characteristic of being human, yet surprisingly enough, in today’s read and regurgitate academic climate, it is not something that is actively pursued. My Crazy Inventions Sketchbook: 50 Awesome Drawing Activities for Young Inventors can change that. My Crazy Inventions will inspire brainstorming, imagining, and, ultimately, drawing with its creative prompts.

Each spread contains numerous fun-filled illustrations of real and imaginary inventions and scenarios, plus lots of room for your child’s own inventive drawings. “Invent a brand-new candy, a writing tool your friends would like to use, or something that would help you sleep better at night.” 

My Crazy Inventions has illustrations of actual inventions and is bursting with fun facts of innovations that have succeeded (M&M’s) and failed (a car wash for humans). My Crazy Inventions is beautifully crafted, with thick pages ready for multiple erasers as your child fine-tunes his design. Also included is an application for a patent and a patent certificate suitable for framing.

Note: Some pages may not suit all families, most notably a bikini-clad sunbathing page.

From the Publisher:
Do you have some crazy inventions up your sleeve? This book is jam-packed with Andrew Rae’s amazing drawings showing all sorts of real inventions that seem too weird to work. How about a dog umbrella? A submarine that looks like a plane… or even a shark. A swimming machine where you don’t get wet? A car wash for people? Someone has even made a device to charge your phone using a hamster!

There is plenty of inspiration to get kids’ minds going, and plenty of room to add their own crazy inventions to the mix. They can design the best beach buggy ever, create a brand new sweet to share with the world, or even draw a transformer dinosaur! Includes a patent certificate for their very own crazy invention.

review by Little Earthling

”My Crazy Inventions Sketchbook is full of idea starters for kids who love to think and draw but do better with prompts. My kids love these kind of books and they are always well-used in our house.”

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