We finished up there, not a huge block but I didn’t want it to become tiresome or too much of the same thing. The last fable was The Lion and the Mouse.Īnusha’s crayon drawing activity for The Lion and the Mouse (another lesson from art projects for kids). We also did a wet-on-wet watercolour colour story painting lesson for this fable, contrasting the light country and dark city homes of the mice. My painting for The Town Mouse and Country Mouse I found this cute activity for The Town Mouse and Country Mouse on Red Ted Art.Įlki even joined in for this one and created a rock mountain dragon matchbox pet 🙂 My picture for The Town Mouse and Country MouseĪnusha’s picture and summary (we both really loved Anusha’s picture for this one).Īnusha and my matchbox country mouse pets We did this together as I told the ‘colour story’ outlined in the lesson. The activity I chose for The Fox and the Grapes was a grade 2 wet-on-wet watercolour painting lesson from Painting and Drawing in Waldorf Schools. The activity we completed for The Crow and the Pitcher kind of had nothing to do with crows! But I wanted Anusha to have a lot of say in the activities we did and she really wanted to do this one, one of the lessons on the website Art projects for kids that involved a bird! Art projects for kids has lots of easy to follow lessons that both the children enjoy doing, I haven’t visited it for years but it’s a great site to head to when in need of a fun art lesson that teaches different techniques.Īnusha’s drawing activity for The Dog and His Shadow (another lesson from Art projects for kids). I then wrote the summary on the board, Anusha helping me to compose it, and she copied it into her main lesson book.Īnusha is not using the golden path or stars with her writing anymore, finding them tedious, but I do still need to gently remind her about her spacing at times.Īnusha’s crayon resist painting for The Crow and the Pitcher Anusha and I drew our pictures together, sometimes with Anusha waiting to follow my drawing if she needed some guidance.

The first fable we read was The Crow and the Pitcher. I used the book The Fables of Aesop by Joseph Jacobs. We read five fables, following the three day rhythm of reading a fable the first day, drawing a picture and writing a summary the second day, and doing an activity related to the story as well as reading the next fable the third day.

The last main lesson block I completed with Anusha last year was a grade 2 block on Aesop’s Fables.

Tuck everlasting drawings