SUN FUN: An Easy Read Activity Book by Caroline Arnold. Here is the perfect book to inspire activities to do with your kids, grandkids, or students, on a hot summer day! Did you know that you can tell time by the sun, cook with the sun, and make pictures with the sun? This book for children ages 5 to 9 has ten fun activities that use energy from the sun, including making a sun clock, shadow puppets, and sun reflectors. From an ice cube race to learning how to watch a solar eclipse, this book uses easily found materials and simple directions to learn about the sun and solar energy.
I wrote and illustrated this book in 1981. Many of the projects were ones that I did with my own children and their friends (who became models for my drawings for the book.) The book has long been out of print but is now available in digital format as a Kindle book on Amazon. Although images on Kindle are only black and white, if you download the book to your phone or computer, the pictures will be in color. Have fun and stay cool!
Illustration note: This book was illustrated back in the days of preseparated art. I had only three colors to work with--black, red, and yellow--and had to create a separate drawing for each color. I worked on a light table to make sure that the images for each color would line up (or register) when the pages were printed. In the printing process, the colors combined to make the final image.
