A-Z Colouring book of Creatures Who Live in the Sea
This is an art, marine education/conservation and social enterprise project.
The students learnt about creatures who live in the sea and choose their favourite creatures to illustrate to create pages of  an A-Z colouring book.
I illustrated the creatures on the back of each page under the pseudo name Steph La Pod, see examples of illustrations below.  On the back of each page are fun facts and little poems about each Sea creature. 
We are selling the book as a social enterprise project to raise money for Westhaven school and Reef-World Foundation.

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  • Art, marine education and conservation social enterprise.
  • Created by children with special educational needs to raise funds for their school.
  • 26 A4 pages of hand drawn pencil illustrations, each letter a different creature!
  • Support Westhaven special school by buying this brilliant gift  – the gift that keeps on giving…give your finest coloured pages to friends and family! Spell names, funny words…
  • Re-discover your creative side.
  • Relax with therapeutic colouring in of crazy creatures from the sea! 
  • Learn about life in the sea with the fascinating facts on the back of each page
  • Support The Reef-World Foundation, an environmental conservation charity- 20% of profits of the book sales go to this Charity.
  • Bargain at £3.50 each or 4 for £10! (+£3 for postage) order below or email neetgardner@yahoo.co.uk

Front of page

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Back of page

Illustrations by: Steph La Pod

Amazing Argonaut facts:
  • Argonauts are a species of octopus.
  • Argonaut female and males are very different sizes, this is called “sexual dimorphism”. Males only grow 3cm while females grow up to 45cm long.
  • Argonaut female creates a thin shell to use as a brood pouch for eggs. This shell is secreted and formed by a modified arm that has a wide sail-like lobe, which stands out from the other seven “normal-looking” arms.
  • Argonaut males also have a modified arm called a “hectocotylus”. During mating, this arm breaks away on a mission to carry sperm and crawls into the female where it just hangs around until she is ready to fertilize her eggs! The female then carries the fertilized eggs around in her shell until they are ready to hatch.
  • Argonauts swim about in warm open ocean areas called pelagic sea, eating krill, shrimp and pelagic snails.
The Argonauts most fervent wish; ‘don’t confuse me for a cuttlefish’,
They have no shell of which to speak, in which to hide their horn beak
My tentacles are far more subtle, for when I wish to swim or scuttle,
After a tasty crunchy crab, Face it mate I’m simply fab!
Poems by: Chris Tation
 
Conservation corner… 70 - 80% of the oxygen we breathe in the air comes from the sea!
Action stations… Reduce, reuse, recycle.