:) tracing is an excellent way, and a small light table can be gotten at most of the craft stores (around here, AC MOORE or Michael's, who are always running 40% off coupons)
Dover books does a whole line of copywrite free 'clip art' books that range from bugs and butterflies to paper dolls in period costumes, and I think the most expensive ones are $5- I've got 20 or 30 of them, and will make a copy of a page, resize it if needed, and use the elements in larger compositions. a good way to study composition is with collages- old catalogs are great sources for pretty things to cut out and keep in one of those expanding file folders (or a coupon folder for smaller images) used book stores and sales, and yard sales are great sources for reference books- old national geographic books, 'horizion' (a hard-covered kind of magazine/annual I'd never heard of until I bought a box of them for a buck) old craft books- all with wonderful things to inspire... I learned my history in the context of crafts- from the egyptians first learning to blow glass through the horrendous working conditions endured by women and children to see that the snotty had their lace and fine ribbons during the Victorian era... James Burke is a wonderful writer who ties history in with meaningful things - The Pinball Effect is a great place to start, and is accessible to even a young child. oddly enough, cartoon and comic books are also handy- a budding artist could do worse than to take lessons from cartoonists from James Thurber and Charles Schultz up through Berke Breathed (bloom county) and Maurice Sendak. a flower press (or a water color pad and a few phone books) can be a platform for a botany lesson, and then a craft session when the petals are dry (combining flowers with little cartoons of faeries is MY god-daughter's favorite pastime) and the more live music, gallery openings, museums, and plays you can expose her to-- the better. especially with the museums and galleries, getting her to explore what she DOESN'T like can be as important (and entertaining) as what she does like :) | 
