Dr. Seuss' Birthday!

In honour of Dr. Seuss' birthday, on March 2, my kindergarten class is going to be drawing and designing a Lorax.

In the past, I have taught a Cat in the Hat lesson where we learn about The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss.  I bought the book years ago and was fascinated by the crazy, colourful artwork that Dr. Seuss did when he wasn't creating art for his books.  You can find some of this artwork if you Google, The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss.  With the Cat in the Hat lesson, we drew the cat together and then we used The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss as our inspiration to make our cats colourful.  The results were absolutely beautiful!  These were done by some Grade One students.

Next week, I will be working on The Lorax with my kindies.  If you would like to try it too, here are the steps I will be using to teach my little ones how to draw him.  After we draw him, we will Secret Art of Dr. Seuss him and use pastel techniques to make him colourful and wonderful.  I will post more once we start the project!

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

Papier Mache Collage

Here is the papier mache mixed media collage my daughter and I created on the Family Day weekend.  She loves bunnies, so that's what we decided to make.  We used an old cookie box, some plastic spoons and some tissue rolls.  Next we papier mached it together.  After it dried, we used water colour paint and painted paper towels a rainbow of colours.  Then we used Mod Podge to stick thte coloured paper towels onto the box.  Finally, we found words that we thought could describe our bunny and we glued those on as well.  This is our Diva Dream Bunny!

Drawing for the Wee Ones!

I will be speaking at the upcoming GETCA conference on Friday, March 2.  My book, Drawing the Words, will be available at the Book Depository booth.


Here is a sample of some of the step by step drawings you will find in my book.  And, for those of you who bought my very first copies, it is also the missing 'V Page'!

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