Drawing Around

Directions:

The family that travels together draws a picture together! Place a sheet of paper on a clipboard or other hard surface that can be passed from person to person, and then have passengers take turns drawing. The first artist looks for one item (a barn, river, animal, mountain, bridge, building) in the passing scenery and then sketches it. The next artist spots another object and adds it to the drawing, and so on. Each person should add his or her contribution in such a way that all the objects fit together to create a coherent picture.

For a variation, give each child a piece of paper and have him or her draw a separate picture. Each artist takes turns calling out items that everyone has to include in the drawing. When the pictures are done, pass them around and see just how different they turned out.

There's more than one way to sketch a cow, an ocean, and a Buick in the same drawing!

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© 2005 by Steve and Ruth Bennett. Excerpted from 365 Unplugged Family Fun Activities with permission of its publisher, Perseus Books Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

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