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Writing is cooler in cursive, and Creative Adventures in Cursive gives kids ideas for practicing writing skills, then guides them into cursive creativity. As many educators will attest, writing in cursive provides cognitive benefits in spelling, memory, reading comprehension, language skills, and overall academic confidence. Practicing cursive carries similar benefits when drawing; once you learn the basic shapes, you can play with it by creating your own personal style. In Creative Adventures in Cursive, noted author Rachelle Doorley, the creative force behind Tinkerlab, shows twenty fun and colorful ways to use script to make posters, present school projects, design monograms, create greeting cards, decorate book bags and t-shirts, ice cookies and cakes -- writing in script with everything, including fabric markers, pastry tubes, string and yarn, and of course brushes, pens, and crayons.
About the Author
Art Educator Rachelle Doorley is the founder of TinkerLab.com, a website that advocates for creative self-expression. Rachelle holds a Masters in Education from Harvard University in Arts Education and a BA from UCLA in Theater Design. Prior to founding TinkerLab, she was an elementary and middle school art teacher, oversaw education programs in art museums, and was a costumer for Warner Brothers and Universal Studios. She's in her second term as an Artist in Residence in the Cubberley Artist Studio Program, Palo Alto. Rachelle has written articles on creativity and arts education for School Arts Magazine, Real Simple Magazine, and FamilyFun Magazine. She lives on the Stanford campus with her husband and her two curious daughters.
