Ready Set Draw! with Roxie Munro A-MAZE-ING AIRPORT ADVENTURE
Follow along with Roxie on this week's Ready Set Draw! and learn to draw aircraft like the ones you can find in her new nonfiction picture book, A-MAZE-ING AIRPORT ADVENTURE: 10 Mazes and Seek-N-Find Games!
Here’s what you will need to draw along with Roxie:
Paper
A marker, pen, or pencil
Crayons or color markers
We’d love to add your artwork to the Ready Set Draw! Art Gallery
🎨 Post your art in the comment section below 🎨 We can’t wait to see what you’ve made!
✈️ About the Book ✈️
An interactive children's activity book with an airport theme, featuring 10 interconnected mazes and seek-n-find games designed to enhance critical-thinking and spatial skills.In A-MAZE-ING Airport Adventure, acclaimed author and illustrator Roxie Munro invites children to explore the bustling world of air travel through a series of intricately designed mazes and seek-n-find games. Young readers begin their journey at home and navigate through realistic airport settings—from check-in and security to the gates and boarding the airplane—enhancing their familiarity with real-world routines while developing critical-thinking and spatial-reasoning skills.Each maze offers engaging challenges and hidden objects to discover, all set within Munro’s dynamic, detail-rich illustrations. Ideal for children aged four and up, the book promotes fine motor development, map-reading, and observational skills, making it perfect for classroom activities, travel preparation, or interactive fun at home.Key features:
• 10 interconnected mazes and seek-n-find games that simulate the full airport experience from driveway to takeoff
• Hidden items like animals, vehicles, and playful objects
• STEM/STEAM-focused design that encourages spatial awareness, logic, collaboration, and creativity
• Includes an answer key for self-guided learning and reinforcement
• Perfect for readers preparing for real-life travel or engaging in imaginative playA playful and educational companion for curious young travelers, A-MAZE-ING Airport Adventure brings the excitement of airports to life while supporting essential learning outcomes.
🎨📝 About Roxie Munro
Roxie was born in Texas, and grew up in southern Maryland, by the Chesapeake Bay. At the age of six, she won first prize in a county-wide contest for a painting of a bowl of fruit. She has been a working artist all her life, for a while freelancing in Washington DC as a television courtroom artist. It was great training for life drawing, concentration under pressure, and making deadlines. Clients included CBS, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press. Fourteen of her paintings have been published as covers of The New Yorker magazine.
She also creates oils, watercolors, prints, and drawings, primarily cityscapes, which are exhibited widely in the US in galleries and museums. Roxie’s work is in numerous private, public, and corporate collections.
Roxie Munro studied at the University of Maryland, the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore), earned a BFA in Painting from the University of Hawaii, attended graduate school at Ohio University (Athens), and received a Yaddo Fellowship in Painting. She lectures in museums, schools, libraries, conferences, and teaches in workshops.
Many oils and watercolors are views from the roof of her sky-lighted loft studio in Long Island City, New York, just across the East River from her home in mid-Manhattan. Roxie is married to the Swedish writer/photographer, Bo Zaunders ( www.bozaunders.com).
It is no secret that #InternationalDotDay is our favorite day of the year — and this is exactly why! Peter H. Reynolds, look at the gorgeous creations the kindergarteners of Bayview Academy in Karachi, Pakistan made in art class to celebrate #DotDay! 🇵🇰🟠✨
🤗 Thank you to their teacher @nadish.kahn.art for sharing them with us!
🎨 Show us how YOUR class or school are celebrating International Dot Day this year! We’d love to share them!
🗣️ "Dot Day is the best day ever!!! 😍😍😍!" "I love the video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "I love this. It shows me how to draw and be creative." 🥰 What will your kids say?
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