To accompany the book, I found these instructions on how to draw a donkey, and we have been practicing this morning. I think I will continue to use this website for other book related drawing times. I really like the simple step by step approach, and later in the week we can try to draw donkeys from memory, to see what we have learned.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Holy Week Book Activity -- all you need is a pencil and paper
To accompany the book, I found these instructions on how to draw a donkey, and we have been practicing this morning. I think I will continue to use this website for other book related drawing times. I really like the simple step by step approach, and later in the week we can try to draw donkeys from memory, to see what we have learned.
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Thanks for these great suggestions. I wish you had posted this book a couple of weeks back. I wonder if they carry it at Borders, as it is too late to purchase online....
The drawing instructions are great!
I am looking for some simple ways to encourage proper pencil-holding in my little ones. An OT friend offered the advice of using the child chopsticks sold at Sur Le Table to develop hand strength. Anyone out there have other suggestions for encouraging proper crayon/pencil grasp? I can't wait for my tikes to get to the level of picture-drawing. This looks like a great activity.
The Montessorians recommend having a child use toothpicks and try to put them in the holes of a salt shaker! It is somewhat difficult to find small enough toothpicks and large enough salt shakers.....but FYI!!
An OT friend of mine said to break crayons in half...forces a tripod grasp. Or, have your child hold a cotton ball on their ring and pinky finger of the writing hand, same result.
Also faber-castel sells triangle grip colored pencils and crayons that have helped us early one with better grip. And they are nice and not expensive!
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