Books in Dover Stained Glass Coloring Book series

Among nature's most fragilely beautiful creatures, butterflies are a delight to the eye as they flutter among the flowers of summer. Now children can re-create the loveliness of butterflies with this pocket-sized stained glass coloring book.Included are boldly outlined drawings on translucent paper of the Monarch, Red Admiral, Angle Wing, Swallowtail, and four other butterfly varieties. Just follow the coloring directions on the inside back cover to produce beautiful lifelike butterflies, then place near a window or other bright light source for an exciting stained glass effect.

Here's a delightful little book with triple appeal: it's a coloring book, it's an introduction to familiar birds, and it enables youngsters to create their very own works of stained glass art. Printed on translucent paper and boldly outlined in black are eight different species: red-breasted nuthatch, blue jay, northern cardinal, barn swallow, house sparrow, black-capped chickadee, robin, and downy woodpecker. Images can be colored with paints, crayons, or felt-tip pens, then hung in the light to produce a glowing stained glass effect.

Introduce children to the lovely world of flowers with this collection of clearly outlined illustrations. Youngsters will learn to identify a colorful bouquet of floral favorites as they color drawings of a daisy, rose, carnation, daffodil, tulip, orchid, poinsettia, and lily. Each picture has been printed on translucent paper that produces a lovely stained glass effect when colored and hung in a window or held up to the light.

With this little coloring book, children can enter the magical world of the unicorn. The enchanting mythical creature appears here in pastoral settings — reposing at a stream, prancing about near a turreted castle, silhouetted against a starry sky, and in other natural scenes. Crayons, paints, or felt-tip pens will animate these eight bold designs of the gentle beast. Young artists simply color the pictures and then hang them near a source of bright light to produce a luminous glow.

They're found in snowflakes, seashell spirals, the petals of flowers, and other objects. They're called mandalas — round designs filled with circles, squares, triangles, and other figures. This coloring book invites you to color 8 of these fascinating patterns. When you're finished, place the pictures in a window or near another source of bright light and watch them glow like stained glass.

Youngsters can create their own garden of stained glass wildflowers with the charming, colorable drawings in this collection. Boldly outlined on translucent paper are eight different species of wildflowers whose uncultivated beauty brightens roadsides, fields, and meadows: buttercup, blue phlox, oxeye daisy, lady's slipper, California poppy, cornflower, day lily, and rugosa rose.The pictures are printed on special paper that allows light to shine through it. First cut the pages from the book as neatly as you can. Then color the pictures, using crayons, felt-tip pens, or paints. You'll get particularly interesting effects if you color both sides, using different colors on the backs than on the fronts. When the pictures are taped to a window, the sunlight shines through them the same way it shines through colored glass!Please refer to the inside back cover for coloring hints and identifications for the scenes. The order of the pages is your key to the identifications, so make a record of them before removing the pages from the book.

The independent-minded cat has been domesticated for around 5,000 years but in all that time it has held on to its mysterious ways. Here are eight fine examples of modern cat breeds: Spotted Shorthair, Russian Blue, Persian, Japanese Bobtail, Havana Brown, Blotched Tabby, Burmese, and Domestic Shorthair.The pictures are printed on special paper that allows light to shine through. First cut the pages from the book as neatly as you can, Then color the pictures, using crayons, felt-tip pens, or paints. You'll get particularly interesting effects if you color both sides, using different colors on the backs than on the fronts. When the pictures are taped to a window, the sunlight shines through them, the way it shines through colored glass.

Now you can re-create the glowing, muted colors and sinuous complexities of Art Nouveau stained glass with this handsome coloring book. Artist A. G. Smith has carefully preserved the familiar swirling, organic forms in 16 boldly outlined designs derived from works by master artisans of the Art Nouveau tradition.Printed on translucent paper, lovely patterns depict motifs of flowing leaves, vines and flowers, graceful birds, mythical creatures, and more. Each exquisite design lends itself especially to coloring with crayons, felt-tip pens, acrylics, watercolors, tempera, and even oil paint. All can be mounted on windows and lampshades or placed near other sources of light to create startling stained glass effects.Not just for young coloring book fans, these handsome designs will captivate colorists of all ages