Today we focused on improving our drawing skills with a fun lesson on drawing spring birds.

We began with a few quick worksheets to warm up our hands and minds. These worksheets are not intended to show the "right" way to draw the items pictured, but only as a safe, judgement free way to practice translating mental shapes onto the paper.

After the worksheets, we did a "follow along" lesson where the kids drew their birds. Although many were able to do this independently, we did it together so that the kids could ask questions and make changes as they went. After completing a bird, we opened the project up to the kids imaginations. We talked about what we might add to the background and foreground of the scene to make our birds feel at home. The kids brainstormed on this together and added what they liked of: nests, eggs, clouds, sun, moon, branches, trees, worms, flowers, rainbows, (candy, trains, campfires!) and more.

With the drawings completed, the kids finished the work with colored pencils. Beautiful work!