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1 Feel free to share this page with others. All of our articles are from a Christian perspective, honoring God as the Creator of all things in nature. We do not ascribe to any aspect of macro evolution at any level. Our focus is on the incredible genius of our Creator, and the artistic beauty of the things He created, as well. Artistic Nature Magazine. We share Bible verses and devotionals in every issue, focusing on discipleship and contentment. Plus we often include fun articles, web sites, and assignments in other school subjects such as music, math, language arts, health, P.E. and more. Each issue also includes fun activity pages, such as mazes, word puzzles, dot to dots, word search puzzles, crossword puzzles, and more, for an age span of grades 2-9. We have something for the whole family. A few of our art assignments are suitable for high school. Smaller children may enjoy coloring some of our pages simply. Artistic Nature Magazine online costs only $15 per year, for 6 (bimonthly) issues. For 60 plus pages per issue, this price can't be beat! Plus you get to print out any page for any child living in your same household, indefinitely. Our specific coloring instructions include what types of strokes to use (smooth, jagged, short, long, straight or curved) and the colors to use for best effect. We recommend that you buy color sets with at least 25 to 50 colors for best results. with Joy Marie Dunlap Brief, entertaining articles on specific nature topics Delightful coloring pages, your kids can learn from as they color, using our careful and creative coloring instructions for grades 4-9. A colored example of most coloring pages for kids to use for reference as they color. Kid-friendly paintings by famous artists to help kids learn new art techniques through simple discussions. We include so many art experiences in each 60 to 84 page magazine that a one year's subscription to Artistic Nature Magazine provides you with more than a year's worth of art curriculum in grades 4-9. Your kids will learn to color in ways that create a 3 dimensional, textured effect, plus learn art principles that are used all the time by great artists. Our nature articles can be used as part of your kids' grade school science (grades 3-6), and are interesting enough for grades 7 and 9 to enjoy as well. Past issue titles include: gardening, nesting birds, North American scenery, whales, dolphins and seals, North American deserts, animal homes. All back issues continue to be sold as home school unit studies. Types of colors that can be used for the art in this magazine: Regular Crayons, Twist up crayons, Colored Pencils, Water Color Pencils, Fine Tip Markers, Regular markers, Oil Pastel Crayons, Water color paint Please be aware that every child is unique. This means that different children will be ready to color at different levels, and each will go at their own pace. Urge your child to follow any and all coloring instructions that he understands and is ready for. Feel free to reprint any art assignment that doesn't seem like his best. Feel free, also, to go back to a previous art page later, if desired. Don't expect perfection. No artist is perfect. 2

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3 Photos on this page may not be used outside the context of this magazine: Photo of Jonathan is by Joy Marie Dunlap; All others on this page are by Jonathan Dunlap ple file Meet our crew: editor, Joy Marie Dunlap, James Dunlap, and their 2 youngest children: Jonathan (above), age 17, and Jennaya (left, under the eucalyptus tree). Above right: Joy Marie's husband, James; Bottom left: Joy Marie coloring for this magazine. Joy Marie writes, directs, colors, and produces this magazine. Jonathan is the photographer and technical assistant for this magazine and also helps with marketing. Jennaya, age 20, helps with writing and research, although her primary job is being the media coordinator for a coalition of humanitarian groups in the Inland Empire of Southern California. James (father and husband) is in charge of marketing. All 5 of our kids were homeschooled by Joy Marie, who also wrote for The Teaching Home magazine for 10 years, from (All trees in these photos are eucalyptus trees, except in the top middle photo). Sa m Artistic Nature Magazine, formerly Creative Home Schooled Kids, is for Christian schools, home schools, and families who want to learn about nature as God's creation in an informative and entertaining way, and develop kids' art at the same time. We cover a different nature topic in each issue. We give you dozens of informative and entertaining articles about animals, plants, and ecosystems in each issue. Plus we give you beautiful coloring pages to go with most of the articles, with instructions to help you learn timeless art secrets that will make your coloring better each time. We also share famous paintings (pre-copyright) and tell you some of the secrets that great artists use in their paintings. Sometimes we include coloring pages to go with some of the paintings, and sometimes we encourage kids to try coloring or painting their own art work using a less challenging famous painting as an example. A subscription to Artistic Nature Magazine can be used as a whole year's art course in grades 4-12 for home schooling families. And you get to print off or copy each of our coloring pages for each child living in your home as often as needed or desired. You may also print or copy any and all activity pages, or print the entire magazine for any child living in your home, or for home school families who can't afford curriculum. We give you word searches, mazes, dot-to-dots, word games, and more. And we also include Scripture verses with thoughtful devotional articles helping kids apply Scripture to their lives. 4

4 4 Magazine Team Photos 6 Australian Scenery Paintings 7 About Australia 8 Australian Flag to Color 9 Easy Wildlife Word Search 10 Hopping Kangaroos Article 11 Kangaroo Coloring 12 Wallabies & Other Roos 13 Wallaby Coloring 13 Verse Bookmark to Color 14 More Roo Family Members 15 Kangaroo Family Word Search 16 Torn Paper Kangaroo Craft 16 How to Draw a Quokka 17 Kangaroo Silhouette to Paint 18 Bear-like Koalas Article 19 Koala Coloring 20 Australian Scenery Paintings 21 Koala Silhouette to Paint 22 Platypus Article 23 Platypus Coloring 24 Echidna Article 25 Echidna Coloring 26 Wombat & Bilby Articles 27 Wombat Coloring 28 Numbats Article 29 Numbat Coloring 30 Activity ; Word Games 31 Australian Animals Word Search 32 Honey Possum Article 33 Honey Possum Coloring 34 Sugar Glider Article 35 Sugar Glider Coloring 36 Quoll Article 37 Quoll Coloring 38 More Australian Mammals 39 Australian Animal Report Form 40 Dot-to-Dot Mystery Animal 41 Endangered Animals Word Search 42 Cairns Birdwing Butterfly 43 Birdwing Butterfly Coloring 44 More Australian Scenery Paintings 45 Australian Birds Article 46 Kookaburra Article 46 Aussie Animals Web Sites to Visit 47 Kookaburra Coloring 48 Lyrebirds Article & Psalm 49 Lyrebird Coloring 50 Bower Birds Article and Crafts 51 Bower Birds Coloring 52 Lorikeets Article & Coloring 53 Australian Birds Word Search 54 Australian Wildlife Activity 55 Australian Reptiles Word Search 56 Bearded Dragon, Frill-Necked Lizard 57 Frill-Necked Lizard Coloring 58 Thorny Devil Article 59 Thorny Devil Coloring 60 Australian Sheep Station Paintings 61 Australia's Outback 62 Devotional: Hearing His Voice 63 Sheep Activity 64 Eat Your Tea: Food in Australia 65 Aborigines & Boomerang Art 66 Aussie Culture and Lingo 67 Surfing and Sailing 68 Sailboat & Dolphins Coloring 69 Two Kids Snorkeling Coloring 70 Australia's Great Barrier Reef 71 Giant Clam Coloring 72 Harlequin Tuskfish 73 Great Barrier Reef Word Search 74 Sailboat Stained Glass & Dugong Drawing 75 Dugong Coloring 76 Stained Glass Coloring & Activity 77 Tiger Shark & Shark Stained Glass 78 Tiger Shark Coloring 79 Word Search Answers 80 Puzzle Answers 5

5 The Letter, 1884 by McCubbin Macedon Ranges 1874 by Louis Buvelot Here are some paintings of Australia. (We have some more paintings of Australia for you on pages 13, 20, 44, and 60.) These paintings are not of modern Australians. They were done in the 1800's. We mainly use 1800's paintings in this magazine because they are pre-copyright, which means we are free, by law, to use them in our magazines. (After 1912 there are copyright restrictions that prevent us from using most later paintings.) I have called these Aussie paintings because Australians often call themselves "Aussies," and everything Australian is called "Aussie," or "Ozzie." The painting at the top of the page looks like some parts of Australia today. Obviously the towns and cities are different than this, and there are many roads in Australia. But it gives you a good feel for what Australia's countryside looks like even today. In this painting, at the bottom of the page, a young woman is reading a letter by a quiet Australian river, in the shade. Can you see the warm sunshiny colors in the top painting and the cool, shady colors in the painting at the bottom of the page? 6

6 wide green areas with plenty of trees and plants, for 200 miles inland. That's an area about as wide as the state of California. This is where most Australians live, although the continent is 2,500 miles wide. It has temperate forests in the south and tropical rain forests in the north. Its tallest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko, is only 7,310 feet high but it has some snowcapped mountains in the southeast. There are also towns along the west coast, and some underground towns in the desert. Australia has some very unique wildlife that is found in no other place on earth. Instead of raccoons, chipmunks, deer, and bears, Australia has kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, wombats, numbats, platypuses, and many other very unusual animals. Australia is home to many different marsupials, a group of animals with pouches, or pockets in the skin on the stomachs of the females where they keep their babies. Marsupial babies can climb in and out of their mother's pouches at any time. Kangaroos, Australia's largest marsupial mammal, can jump 30 feet in one bound. (There are over 50 different species of kangaroos in Australia.) The smallest marsupial is the longtailed planigale, which is only 2 inches long. Australia has the Australia is as big as the contiguous United States but has a population (2.97 million) smaller than the Los Angeles (California) metropolis. Welcome to Australia! In this issue of Artistic Nature Magazine, we are going to explore the wildlife of what Australians call the Land Down Under because it is the only nation continent that is entirely in the Southern Hemisphere, the bottom half of the globe. In spite of the fact that it is an English-speaking country, many Americans know very little about Australia. The whole middle of the continent of Australia is a vast, largely uninhabitable desert. However, along the northern and eastern coasts are The coast of the Great Australian Bight is lined with 200-foot cliffs. only 2 egg-laying mammals in the world. Australia also has the largest butterfly in the world, the Queen Alexandra's birdwing butterfly, which is one foot wide. Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the biggest coral reef in the world. We will also be looking at a few of the creatures that live in the Great Barrier Reef, the largest reef in the world, at 1,250 miles long. Among them is the giant clam, which lives in a shell that is 5 feet wide! I am excited about enabling American kids to discover these amazing Australian animals, but I have also tried to put in enough information for Australian kids to enjoy this issue as well. 7