1.  Using PowerPoint or Word or Excel, try out the Insert menu, ClipArt
    command.  Insert any piece of ClipArt into your document or
    worksheet or onto your slide.

2.  Find the Drawing toolbar.  View menu, Toolbars, if it is not
    showing.  Ungroup the ClipArt into its major components.

3.  Click off the ClipArt and then select some of its separate
    components, by holding to the Shift key and clicking to
    add more objects to the selection.

4.  Do the Drawing toolbar, Draw button menu, Group command to 
    make these 2 or 3 or 8 or 10 component objects into one object.
    How many handles does the ONE object have?

5.  Drag the one object an inch or two away from its position.
    What happens?  

6.  Click the Edit menu, Undo command or better yet the Undo arrow
    on the Standard toolbar.  Did the object snap back to its
    original position?

7.  Click the Undo button until you are back to the original object,
    just after it was inserted onto your slide or into your document.
    Click Redo button if you go too far back Undoing actions.

8.  Try resizing the object (take it to the house of mirrors
    at the amusement park).  Make it way tall or very wide, but
    oh so short.  Edit menu, Undo until its back to its 
    beginning state again.

9.  Try resizing from a corner handle by using the Shift key
    down method to Lock the Aspect ratio.

10. Open up the Format menu, AutoShape dialog box, after 1st
    making sure the ClipArt or any piece of it has handles,
    and is thus selected.  Look at and try out the
    Format AutoShape Size tab group of commands.

11. Try the Format menu, Colors and Lines command with the
    ClipArt or any piece of it selected.  Go to the
    Fill Color pull down list box and choose Fill Effects.

    Choose a Texture and see what it looks like.  Apply it
    by clicking OK twice (or OK once and Preview once).

12. Follow #11 instructions again, perhaps with a different
    piece of the clip art selected, and this time instead
    of Texture tab, go to the Fill Effects...  Gradient tab
    and choose One color or Two colors or Preset.  Apply it.

13. Try out another piece of clipart on a 2nd slide or keep
    working with this piece.

14. Try out the 3-D effects button on the Drawing toolbar
    to a piece of Clip Art.  Experiment.

15. After experimenting (also known as playing), go back and
    read more of the directions and continue to prepare for
    facing an actual project and REAL problem/task/situation
    (Ghost; cute green, but pesky slimer; or Mr Staypuft,
                            also known as Gozur the Gozerian).

    When you get on the elevator to head up to the 12th floor
    of the Hotel Sedgewick, you will be experienced and comfortable
    with the tools and techniques.

    Thanks for stopping to do the TRY IT OUT exercise #1 tasks!