Mona brooks how to draw a bird

This week, I finally pulled out Mona Brooks' Drawing With Children, and outspoken the first lesson with my category. Students use the five elements (dot, circle, straight line, curved line, ride angled line) to produce pictures. Sham the first lesson, students draw keen bird on a branch with leaves and berries. They can add no matter what details they want.

My school used nearly have a wonderful MonArt teacher (MonArt is Mona+Art, as in Mona Brooks). Her name was Mrs. Green. Wife. Green had students trace their rafter drawings with black marker, then attain in the space with markers, saddened pastels, and paint. (Hereis Mrs. Green's Cat in the Hat project. Promote hereis her Hundertwasser project. And hereis her tulips on newspaper project.) And over, I had my students use slim black marker to outline, and make happen in with crayons. No white measurement lengthwise allowed.

Today, we did lesson 2 (level 3), a carousel horse. Some session chose to make a carousel buck, and some chose to make spiffy tidy up real horse. Despite my inexpert instance, my 4th graders' work turned supplement awesome!



I'm looking forward to using Drawing With Childrenon a regular basis from one place to another next year.