Articles, Stories and Devotionals Pictures to Color or Paint Puzzle

Top L to R: Jonathan being pulled in the red wagon for our
family's 1999 parade. At our patio table: Judah, Jennaya, Joymarie,
Jonathan, Joshua & Justin; Judah carrying a US flag in our parade. Down left
side of page: Josh, foreground, Justin in background in hats they made
themselves. Bottom c orner: A "covered wagon" we created for Jennaya's
dolls, which she pulled in our family July 4th parade. (Ages 6, 9, 12, 13, 14)
Our two oldest boys made the Uncle Sam hats - see how on page 13.
Articles, Stories and Devotionals
Albert Bierstadt Biography ............................................................................... 12
Life on the Oregon Trail .................................................................................. 24
Being Good Stewards of Our Land ............................................................ 40 - 43
Contentment Brings Happiness.................................................................. 59 - 61
My Trips Across America ...... 6, 15, 19, 21, 23, 27, 29, 32, 33, 35, 37, 46, 49, 52
Our July Fourth ............................................................................................... 13
Kit Goes West: The Grand Canyon ........................................................... 38, 39
Pictures to Color or Paint
(most with instructions and examples)
Seashore with Lighthouse ......... 8, 9
Moose ................................... 10, 11
White-tailed Deer ........................ 14
Deer in Forest ............................. 16
Cypress Gardens ................... 17, 18
Great Smoky Mtns. Park ............. 20
Wagon Train................................ 26
Rocky Mountains ................... 30, 31
Pika ....................................... 33, 34
Marmot ........................................ 36
Tassel-Eared Squirrel to Paint ..... 37
Grand Canyon ...................... 40 - 42
Tassel-Eared Squirrel to Color ..... 46
Sonoran Desert ..................... 47, 48
Sequoia ................................. 50, 51
Mt. Rainier ............................ 53, 54
Elk ................................... 53, 55, 56
Rainbow Falls .................. 41, 58, 59
Puzzle Pages Answers ............ 64
Squirrel and Bison Mazes ............ 22
Change Word ...... 10, 34, 54, 55, 59
Track Search ............................... 36
How Many Words ........................ 36
Unscramble Words ...................... 46
American Animals Word Search .. 63
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Paintings
(by Albert Bierstadt, except where noted)
Lower Yellowstone Falls ................... 7
Kern's River Valley, California ......... 12
Niagara........................................... 15
Merced River, California ................. 19
Landscape, Hill and Dale ................ 21
Advice on the Prairie (Ranney) ....... 23
Wasatch Mountains, Nebraska ....... 27
Estes Park, Colorado...................... 29
Mountain Scene I............................ 32
Rocky Mountain I............................ 33
The Great Trees, Mariposa Grove .. 49
Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite .............. 52
Yosemite (Herzog) .......................... 52
Elk .................................................. 53
Poems
"America the Beautiful"..................... 7
"I Thank Thee Lord" ....................... 22
"Precious Gifts" .............................. 28
"I'd Rather Be Contented" ............... 60
"Sunshine" ...................................... 61
Crafts and Activities
Make an Uncle Sam Hat ................ 13
Make a Doll's Covered Wagon ....... 25
Hawaiian Fruit Salad Recipe .......... 57
Deer and Sunset Bookmark ............ 64
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About This Issue .................................. 6
Poem: "America the Beautiful" ............. 7
Painting: Lower Yellowstone Falls ....... 7
Seashore Coloring Tips........................ 8
Seashore Coloring Page ...................... 9
Northeast USA ..................................... 9
Did You Know? American Animals..... 10
Moose Coloring Instructions ............. 10
Moose Coloring Page ....................... 11
Bierstadt Painting: Mountain Lake .... 12
Biography of Albert Bierstadt ............ 12
What about Copyright Laws? ........... 12
Our July Fourth .................................. 13
How to Make an Uncle Sam Hat ....... 13
White-tailed Deer Coloring Page ....... 14
Bierstadt Painting: Niagara Falls ...... 15
Talk About Niagara Falls Painting ..... 15
Deer in Forest Coloring Page ............ 16
Cypress Gardens Example ................ 17
Eastern USA................................. 17, 18
Cypress Gardens Coloring Page ...... 18
Bierstadt Painting: Forest Creek ....... 19
Smoky Mountains Coloring Page ....... 20
Bierstadt Painting: Plains .................. 21
Two Poems ......................................... 22
Squirrel and Bison Mazes .................. 22
Painting: "Advice on the Prairie" ........ 23
Life on the Oregon Trail ..................... 24
Make a Doll's Covered Wagon ......... 25
Midwest Prairie States ...................... 25
Wagon Train Coloring Page .............. 26
Painting: Wasatch Mtns., Nebraska 27
Precious Gifts Poem ........................ 28
Bierstadt Painting: Estes Park .......... 29
Rocky Mountain States ...................... 29
Rocky Mtns. Example, Coloring ... 30, 31
Bierstadt Painting: Mountain ............. 32
Bierstadt Painting: Rocky Mountains 33
Pika Coloring Page ..................... 33, 34
Rocky Mountains/Plains Animals ....... 35
Marmot Coloring Page ....................... 36
Track Search ..................................... 36
How Many Words Game .................... 36
Tassel-Eared Squirrel to Paint ........... 37
Kit Goes West: Grand Canyon ... 38, 39
About the Grand Canyon .................. 39
Grand Canyon Coloring Example ...... 40
Coloring Instructions .......................... 41
Grand Canyon Coloring Page ................ 42
Moran Painting: Grand Canyon ............. 43
Article: Being Good Stewards .......... 43 - 46
Tassel-Eared Squirrel to Color ............... 46
Words to Unscramble ............................ 46
Sonoran Desert to Color .................. 47, 48
Bierstadt Painting: Giant Sequoia .......... 49
America's Giant Trees ................ 49, 50, 52
Sequoia Coloring Example..................... 50
Sequoia Coloring Page .......................... 51
Bierstadt Painting: Yosemite Waterfall ... 52
Herzog Painting: Yosemite ..................... 52
Bierstadt Painting: Elk ............................ 53
The Northwest States ............................. 53
Alaska ..................................................... 53
Mt. Rainier Instructions, Coloring .... 53, 54
Northwest American Animals ................. 55
Elk Instructions, Coloring Page........ 55, 56
Hawaii ..................................................... 57
Hawaiian Fruit Salad Recipe ................. 57
Rainbow Falls Example & Coloring . 58, 59
Poem: I'd Rather Have Contentment ..... 60
Contentment Brings Happiness ....... 60 - 62
Poem: Sunshine ..................................... 62
Animals of North America Word Search 63
Deer and Sunset Bookmark ................... 64
Answer Page .......................................... 64
Special Feature: My Trips Across America the Beautiful (Pages 6, 15, 19, 21, 23, 27, 29, 32, 33, 35, 37, 46, 49, 52)
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Look carefully at the stroke directions in this picture before you color it. The lines on the hillside come down diagonally.
The lines in the river go across (horizontal). The grass is created with up and down streaks. Color the horse's manes
in the same directions as the lines you see creating them. Color the man's hair blowing in the wind with lines in the
same direction as what you see here. Draw over wrinkles darkly before coloring in the spaces around them.
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1991
Justin, Jennaya, Josh
Justin
at age
6
PRECIOUS GIFTS
Oh let us never fail to see
The many precious gifts from Thee;
The birds all making melody,
The fluttering leaves upon the tree;
The butterflies so soft and light
And stars all shining in the night,
The puff seeds in their lovely flight;
O help us to do what is right.
Photos Copyright by
Joymarie Dunlap You cannot
use these photos outside the
context of this e-zine page.
Jonathan
at age 13
Lord, Thou hast made so many things,
And when I see them my heart sings;
The cool and breezy evenings,
The sunsets that each evening brings.
O let me never fail to see
The precious, treasured gifts
from Thee
by Joymarie Dunlap
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If you like searching for tracks, find the 15 marmot tracks in this picture of
yellow-bellied marmots escaping a hawk in the mountains.
Track
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How about these words? tassel-eared squirrel, white-tailed deer, black-tailed jackrabbit
bighorn sheep, golden eagle, great white egret, prairie dogs (Use a lined piece of paper.)
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How to color the next page:
Here's how I colored the sequoias on the
next page. I started by tracing over the
vertical lines in a dark red-brown. Then I
used a lighter red-brown to color in the bark
in between the dark brown lines.
Next I used a dark pine green to color the
young sequoias' branches. I used zigzag
strokes, which can be done very quickly.
Think of how a Christmas tree looks as you
color them. I traced the outlines of the low
trees and bushes that are not pines or
sequoias with a medium green, and filled
them in with light green in rounded strokes.
Look at my colored picture to see how I did
this.
I colored the light blue sky between the
branches in horizontal strokes (across). Can
you see the tiny people at the bottom of the
picture? Use any kind of clothing color to
color them, except brown, which would
make them hard to see.
You can see from the curved lines that the
ground under the trees is uneven. That's why
I made dark brown shadows before coloring
the rest of the ground a lighter brown. I used
fine tip colored markers, but with this picture
crayon is okay too because they give the
picture texture, which it needs.
Joymarie
Redwood coloring and article
below by Joymarie Dunlap
There are 75 different groves of sequoias in the state
of California. In one of them grows the General
Sherman tree, which is the l argest l i vi ng t ree on earth.
It is not as tall as the tallest redwood, but it is much
bigger around at the bottom. This tree is 31 feet in
diameter, meaning the trunk is 31 feet across. Can
you imagine that? That's wide enough to block 3 lanes
Even though redwoods are the tallest trees on earth, of a highway. It is also 272 feet tal l.
they are not the biggest trees when it comes to how
wide and heavy the tree is. The biggest (heaviest, Over 50 years ago, people decided to cut a tunnel
one of the giant sequoias so people could
widest) trees on earth are called sequoias, through
drive right through the tree, but this weakened the
named after a Native American chief called Sequoyah, tree, and in 1969 that tree fell over. Sequoias can live
who created the Cherokee alphabet so that the up to 2,000 years. The shade from these giant trees
Cherokees could read books in their own language is so thick that even on a very hot day, inside the forest
(including the Bible).
it is very cool and pleasant.
The redwood i s the tallest tree on earth. It
can grow up to 368 feet t al l . To look up that high,
you would have to bend your head all the way back
as far as it can go, or lay down on the ground and
look straight up. Redwood trees can live for up to
3,000 years.
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When I was 18, I had the privilege of going to Hawaii.
I remember incredibly steep mountains, fantastic
beaches, and being told about school canoe races
between the native Hawaiians and white Americans,
which, I was told, the Hawaiians always won.
Hawai i i s a US stat e that is made up
of islands in the Pacific ocean. There
are 8 big islands, and 129 little islands.
Each of the 8 big islands is different
than all the others. There is an
international airport in Honolulu on
the island of Oahu which is the most
populated island. The way people live
in Oahu is pretty much like Americans
on the mainland USA.
I'm sure you know that Hawaii has some very
nice beaches with palm trees and big hotels.
And you probably know that there are volcanoes
in Hawaii. But you might be surprised to know
that Hawaii is also a place with steep cliffs, deep
canyons, swamps, bogs, rainforest, and
waterfalls.
The island of Mol okai has tropical rainforests
and the world's highest sea cliffs! Molokai also
has a 1,750-foot-tall waterfall.
The island of Lanai has red volcanic rocks as
well as huge pineapple plantations. On Lanai
Hawaii is well
known for its surfing, but what about there are also bighorn sheep, turkeys, and
snow skiing in Hawaii? Mauna Kea, also known as "White pheasants.
Mountain," is snowy enough for skiing. However, across The island of Ni hau is privately owned by a
most of Hawaii the temperatures remain in the 70's and 80's group of Hawaiians, and cannot be visited
by day and don't go below 53 degrees at night.
without special permission from the native
It is well known that Hawaii has some delightful beaches and people. Some of the native Hawaiians are
waves that are great for surfing. But on the north shores of cowboys on sheep and cattle ranches.
the islands are giant waves, up to 25 feet tall, which are too The island of Maui is made up of 2 huge inactive
dangerous for anyone, even the best of surfers. (I rode 9 volcanoes. Haleakala is 10,000 feet tall.
foot high waves at ages 10 and up, but I would not attempt,
even when I was young and strong, to ride or play in any The island of Kahool awei is uninhabited and
wave bigger than that.)
used only for US military bombing practice.
Hawaii grows some delicious tropical fruits and nuts which
are shipped to the rest of the United States. It grows mangos,
bananas, papayas, macadamia nuts, ginger, and sugar cane,
which is made into sugar. It also has orchid farms.
Hawaiians make necklaces of real flowers, called leis, used
to greet visitors, and worn during special celebrations.
The island of Hawai i has rainforest, black sand,
waterfalls and cattle ranches with 55,000 cattle.
The island of Kauai is one of the wettest places
on earth, with 460 inches of rainfall per year on
Mount Wai-ale-ale. In addition to thousands of
coconut palms and steep cliffs, the island of
using mainland ingredients: Kauai has a deep canyon that is known as "The
Little Grand Canyon of the Pacific." It is 3,600
Mix together one can of pineapple pieces, two cans of
mandarin orange slices, a bag of shredded coconut, a half feet deep, 2 miles wide, and 10 miles long. The
most active volcano in the world, Kilauea, pours
bag of marshmallows, and if possible, a chopped mango.
out lava continuously in hot, bubbly red
You can make variations of this fruit salad by adding
chopped papaya, sliced bananas, or any other tropical fruit streams. Kauai is also known as "The Garden
Island."
you can find. You can also leave out any ingredients you
can't find. Make your own recipe if you choose.
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