An activity book series for ages 2–9
Inside Big Machines
Big-format activity books for children who love machines. Each one gives a child eight machines to color, cut out and glue back together, reveal square by square and draw for themselves, with mazes, a word search and a certificate at the end. Paper, crayons and child-safe scissors: no screens needed.
- Screen-free
- Coloring
- Cut & glue
- Ages 2–9
What your child does in every book
Hands-on pages for quiet time at home, on a trip or in the classroom. Each book has eight machines, and every machine shows up in several kinds of activity.
Color
A full-page drawing of every machine, with clear lines for crayons or markers.
Cut & glue
Picture puzzles with dotted cut lines that rebuild each machine. The cutting is done with a grown-up.
Reveal
Color a grid by symbol and a hidden machine appears, square by square.
Draw & solve
Draw-your-own pages, mazes, a word search and a certificate to finish.
Inside Big Machines: Construction Coloring & Activity Book
Zone 1: the building site
Construction
Diggers, dozers, cranes and mixers.
Eight construction machines to color, build, reveal and draw, from the excavator and bulldozer to the mobile crane and road roller. Each machine appears in several kinds of activity, so the book holds a child's attention from the first page to the certificate at the end.
Inside Big Machines: Space Machines
Zone 2: the launch pad
Space Machines
Rockets, rovers, capsules and space stations.
Eight machines that take us to space, from the launch rocket and crew capsule to the lunar lander and Mars rover. Each machine has a full-page coloring page, a cut-and-glue puzzle and a color-by-symbol reveal.
Inside Big Machines: Monster Trucks
Zone 3: the dirt track
Monster Trucks
Big-tire pickups, mud boggers and car crushers.
Eight giant monster trucks, from the big-tire pickup and mud bogger to the car crusher and snow truck. Each truck has a full-page coloring page, a cut-and-glue puzzle and a color-by-symbol reveal.
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More from the shop
These clips are from Christmas Monster Trucks, a holiday activity book from Halvermere Press (not part of this series). The videos start muted.
a cut-and-glue page from the book is cut along its dotted lines and the six pieces are glued into a picture of the tree hauler monster truck.
the Christmas mystery picture grid is colored square by square following the symbol key, revealing the tree hauler. The coloring is simulated; the book's pages are black and white.
a Christmas stocking and gift box open to Santa and his friends, then real black-and-white pages from the book: coloring, cut and glue, hidden pictures and mazes.
Santa, Ralph, Pinky, Remy, Hazel and Snowy, the holiday crew from the book, are introduced one by one, followed by coloring, cut-and-glue and maze pages from inside the book.
Which machines does your child love?
Pick a zone, or collect all three. Large 8.5 × 11 in paperbacks, sold on Amazon.
Cutting activities should always be done with a grown-up, using child-safe scissors.