Coloring books for people who eat
Hi, I'm Claire. I trick people into liking vegetables.
Er... that is, every month, I draw and print a mini-book about a vegetable, cooking technique, or other seasonal food-related topic.
Each family-friendly issue is about 16 pages, with a hand-colored cover.
Subscribe now, and I'll mail you each new issue around the first of the month. (You can order back issues, but only until the print run sells out.)
This item is a digital version of Square Foot Garden Basics that you can download and print out at home.
Square Foot Gardening is an easy way to grow lots of kinds of food in a small space. This booklet covers the basics — how it works, how to get started, and what to plant when — with a focus on gardening with kids. Includes garden planning worksheets and information on lead safety. An updated, expanded version of the Square Foot Gardening Cheat Sheet that started it all.
Printable PDF download
Formatted for 8 1/2 x 11 paper
Ages: grownup-ish
Skills needed: none
Skills taught: gardening, math
This item is a digital version of the You Can Grow Food coloring book that you can download and print out at home.
If you want your kids to eat vegetables today, bribe them with dessert. If you want them to eat vegetables every day, plant a garden together.
This companion to Square Foot Garden Basics will get your little ones excited about growing — and eating — their own vegetables. (And once they discover they like to eat the plants they grow, they're more willing to try the ones from the market.)
Ages: all
Printable PDF download
Formatted for 8 1/2 x 11 paper
Ages: all
Skills needed: none
Skills taught: gardening, math
This item is a digital version of Things To Grow And Eat (A Square Foot Garden Planner) that you can download and print out at home.
By popular request, this coloring book / garden planning workbook contains illustrated square foot garden spacings for more than 45 food crops, with garden planning worksheets for the four most popular garden bed sizes.
Perfect for deciding what to grow, planning out your garden, or keeping your kids entertained while getting them excited about growing and eating vegetables!
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24 pages
Formatted for 8 1/2 x 11 paper
Ages: all
Skills needed: none
Skills taught: gardening, math
This item is a digital version of the Rainbow Chard coloring book that you can download and print out at home.
If you like spinach or beets, you might like rainbow chard! (If you dislike spinach or beets, you probably won't like plain, raw rainbow chard, but you still might like it if you cook it, especially if you add a little bit of butter or olive oil with a little garlic, or a little bacon or cheese. Fat is magical.)
Contains tips for growing, preparing, and enjoying rainbow chard. (Or even ordinary green-and-white chard.)
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Formatted for 8 1/2 x 11 paper
Ages: all
This item is a digital version of In Season: Fall that you can download and print out at home.
Autumn is here, that wonderful roller coaster of gratitude, seasonal affective disorder, family drama, and pie. This little coloring book features eight of fall's most delicious fruits and vegetables, perfect for when you to distract certain family members (or take a much-deserved coloring break yourself.)
apples
brussels sprouts
winter squash
sweet potatoes
parsnips and carrots
persimmons
dark leafy greens
Printable PDF download
Formatted for 8 1/2 x 11 paper
Ages: all
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This item is a digital version of the Lemons coloring book. It is a PDF that you can download and print out at home.
This book was a special request from a four year-old. "Tell her to make a book about lemons," she said, so I did.
Now your family can:
- learn how to make your lemons last longer
- make food taste less boring with lemon juice instead of salt
- ask your neighbors if you can pick a lemon from their tree
- no, seriously, ask first
- follow a recipe for lemon-honey dressing
- and more!
Printable PDF download
Formatted for 8 1/2 x 11 paper
Square Foot Gardening is an easy way to grow lots of kinds of food in a small space. This booklet covers the basics — how it works, how to get started, and what to plant when — with a focus on gardening with kids. Includes garden planning worksheets and information on lead safety. An updated, expanded version of the Square Foot Gardening Cheat Sheet that started it all.
15 pages
Ages: grownup-ish
Skills needed: none
Skills taught: gardening, math
If you want your family to eat more vegetables, start with things they already like. That way, they'll trust you when you bring out the weird stuff.
16 pages
Ages: very young
Skills needed: none
Skills taught: planting, preparing, tasting, and eating peas
This item is a digital version of the Decomposers Mini-Guide that you can download and print out at home.
Meet Nature’s recycling team: the decomposers that live in soil and compost piles!
Bacteria, fungi, earthworms, and other tiny life forms turn old organic matter into soil and nutrients so new things can grow! Original illustrations of 22 soil inhabitants that you can print, color, and fold into your own field guide!
This one-page sheet folds into a tiny 8-page booklet. Print it out at 100% (do not scale to fit) and follow the folding directions on the sheet.
Ages: all
Printable PDF download
Formatted for 8 1/2 x 11 paper
Ages: all
Skills needed: scissors, folding