Blog tour: Scavenger Art

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Welcome to the blog tour for Scavenger Art by Lexi Rees!

About the book…

Scavenger hunts are fun.

Drawing is fun.

Put them together for ★ SCAVENGER ART ★

This unique art-based activity book includes 52 scavenger hunts designed to

✓ encourage curious minds

✓ spark creativity

✓ practise mindfulness

✓ develop drawing skills

What did I think?

If you are not new here, you already know that I have a bit of an obsession about anything created by Lexi Rees. And if you have landed here for the first time, do search for the author’s name on my blog to find more goodies!

Anyway, as a not particularly creative person, I love it when someone can point me in the right direction. Lexi Rees hands creativity on a silver platter but she also makes you do some work! True, I am not in the target audience of children between the ages of 6 and 12. That, however, hasn’t stopped me before and it is not going to stop me now.

The book invites the reader to look at the world and everything in it, truly observe it, and draw it. There are 8 sections and each of them explores a theme that will take you, for instance, around the house or outside, looking at clouds or studying the shape of noses.

The beauty of Scavanger Art is its simplicity, not to mention the cute illustrations by Molly O’Donoghue.

More about the author…

Lexi Rees was born in Scotland but now lives down south. She writes action-packed adventures brim full of witch-doctors, fortune-tellers, warriors and smugglers, combining elemental magic with hints of dystopia. She also writes fun activity books for children. 

Her fantasy adventure, Eternal Seas, was awarded a "loved by" badge from LoveReading4Kids. The sequel, Wild Sky, is available now. 

She's passionate about developing a love of reading and writing in children and, as well as her Creative Writing Skills workbook, she has an active programme of school visits and other events, is a Book PenPal for three primary schools, and runs a free online #kidsclub and newsletter which includes book recommendations and creative writing activities.

In her spare time, she's a keen crafter and spends a considerable amount of time trying not to fall off horses or boats.

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