JESS SMART SMILEY

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  • HELLO. MY NAME IS JESS SMART SMILEY & I MAKE RAD PICTURES.

    For those of you who are new to this blog, or are trying to figure out who I am and what I do: this post is for you. HELLO. MY NAME IS JESS SMART SMILEY & I MAKE RAD PICTURES. Drawing and writing have always been my biggest passions. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to…

  • FREE HALLOWEEN CRAFTS & GAMES for CHILDREN

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    HAPPY HALLOWEEN! (Get spooky with these fun Halloween activities) This is the magical time of year when porches become covered with pumpkins and trees are filled with spiders and webs–it’s Halloween and that’s reason to celebrate! Get ready for the big day by coloring a monster, making sucker spiders or a monster stamp, by baking halloween cookies, or drawing the Rumpus (star…

  • NEW HALLOWEEN BOOK IS OUT!

      My newest book is out, just in time for Halloween! Rumpus on the Run: A Monster Look-n-Find Book is filled with spooky-fun and cutesy-quirky monsters in 10 full-color imaginative scenes. (You can think of the book as Where’s Waldo, but with family-friendly monsters.) I’ve had an absolute blast illustrating the book and coming up with critters,…

  • ★GIVEAWAY WINNERS★

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    All month I’ve been running a contest, where I’ve offered 3 signed copies of Rumpus on the Run, as well as 3 digital PDFs. The results are in and I’m happy to announce our winners: Congratulations to our six winners, and keep watching this blog for more chances to win!

  • SUCKER SPIDERS (HALLOWEEN CRAFT)

    Sucker spiders are a fun, easy craft for children ages 4-8. Twist three pipe cleaners around the base of a sucker and poof!, you have a sucker spider.   We like to glue googly eyes to our spiders, and slip ’em off of the sucker stick!   Spider attack! MAKE A SPIDER & WIN A BOOK!…

  • MAKE A MONSTER POTATO STAMP!

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      CUT IT I’ve always loved potato stamps–they’re easy to make and fun to use. (I’ve even used variations of potato stamps in some of my drawings and paintings!) Here I’ve cut the edges of a potato to make a Rumpus body. I cut out a circle for the eye. PAINT IT We used green…

  • “MONSTER EYE” COOKIE RECIPE

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    HALLOWEEN FUN All throughout the month of October, I’m posting fun Halloween recipes, games, activities and crafts, each starring the Rumpus–a monster I created for my new Halloween book for children, Rumpus on the Run: A Monster Look-n-Find Book. Learn more about the book here, and enter to win a signed copy of the book, just…

  • MONSTER DRAWING GAME

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    ROLL-A-RUMPUS Grab some paper, some crayons and a die–it’s time to draw! The rules are easy: each number on the die represents a monster part to draw. Roll a 2 and draw the arms. Roll a 4 and draw the eye! A fun game for children ages 4-7. Download the printable game here, and don’t…

  • FREE MONSTER-THEMED HALLOWEEN WALLPAPER

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    MONSTER WALLPAPER What’s better than celebrating Halloween? Celebrating with a new wallpaper for your desktop, phone or tablet! Rock this monster-themed wallpaper for the month of October, featuring characters from my newest book for children, Rumpus on the Run: A Monster Look-n-Find Book, out October 15. DOWNLOAD THE WALLPAPER HERE! PRE-ORDER THE BOOK Want to…

  • MONSTER LOOK & FIND…DRAWN BY YOU!

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    COMMUNITY LOOK-N-FIND Earlier this year, when I started drawing my new Halloween book, Rumpus on the Run: A Monster Look-n-Find Book, I knew that I wanted to get people involved with the fun process of drawing and making a hidden object scene. I thought that it would be fun to invite people to draw their own…

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