As a time of sharing, we would love to share these colouring in Christmas images with you all. Please feel free to download these images (see buttons below), print them off and share some colouring joy with your friends and family this Christmas.
When I was illustrating The Adventures of Cedric the Bear I did lots of drawings showing different facial expressions.
This is a great drawing exercise. The easiest way to do it is to draw a series of simple faces, like a cat’s face.Then choose five different expressions to draw on the faces. They could be: ‘Happy’ ‘Sad’ ‘surprised’ ‘Worried’ ‘Laughing’. Sometimes I make faces at myself in the mirror to get the right expression! Or you could ask someone else to make the face and then see what happens to their eyes and their mouth and very importantly to their eyebrows….
We had some amazing entries for our Colour Cedric colouring competition. The children who entered were all between the ages of 6 and 10 years old. They all put a lot of effort in to their entries.
Anne Bowes kindly judged the competition. You can see all the entries, including the winning one by Cotty, here.
Anne visited St John’s Primary School today for world book day – “I had a wonderful afternoon celebrating World Book Day with years 3 and 4 at St John’s Primary school!” – Anne
“Anne came to our school to read the Cedric stories to years 3 and 4 and to show how she made the illustrations for the book. She really brought the story to life. We then had a workshop with Anne drawing cartoon characters showing different emotions. This was great fun and the children really enjoyed it. I would definitely recommend a visit from Anne and to share these lovely books with lower Key stage 2 children.” – Alison Main, St Johns Primary, Crowborough