BIRD UNIT STUDY | HOW TO INCORPORATE ART WITH SCIENCE

There's a difference between an art lesson and an artistic representation of a lesson. Some lessons include narrations or dictation and some lessons include some art or handwork or hands-on project. While these activities always take longer, they are often more impactful, and meaningful. Usually, what is learned remains longer and an added perk is that children love to look back at the work they've done which causes a natural review of the material learned in an organic natural way.

In today's lesson, we read the book The Spider and the Dove by Farah Morely. It's a delightful story of the Hijah (migration) of Prophet Muhammad (saw) told through the eyes of a spider and two doves. I love the perspective of the story and seeing these historical significant events depicted this way. Not to mention that the book is full of beautiful watercolored paintings with black silhouettes. I was immediately inspired by the image of the spider's web from the inside of the cave on Mount Thawr and decided to turn it into an art project.

This happens often. We'll be reading our books for a unit, and I see something that inspires an artistic lesson. For this project, I am using our Stockmar watercolors, Strathmore 140 lb. watercolor paper and a variety of paint brushes from inexpensive synthetic to expensive all nature squirrel hair. To be honest, I prefer the synthetic ones which I purchased about 10 years ago from a local craft store for less than $5 for the set.

I'm also using a new watercolor paint caddy. It's actually probably intended as a flower vase, but I thought it would make a very pretty watercolor caddy, and it does! You can find this treasure (if they still have it) at Farmyard Darlings in Northern California.

You can find links to the materials I used as well as more pictures on the blog post that accompanies this video on my website:


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