Reading club artists

Another reading club goes by. Three more left until I leave for Malawi (eeeeeeeek!!). We added another element into the mix today: I brought an object along and asked the children to draw a short story about said thing. Today was a beautiful shell. I gave them as example: they were asked to choose a character, a favourite character, and to elaborate on it, including the object, or in the case of the shell, something relating to it, such as sea, waves, water etc etc etc. Some of the children took my example almost exact: a dog, standing at the seas edge, wanting to get a bone that was buried at the bottom. Others' interpretations were divine!

Amanda told a short story about a bird in a field hunting for a snail and the snail is running away (snail, with shell, you get the drift) (see bird, loose object one flower stem away is the snail - or the memory of where it was because about half way along the page is the actual snail, zooming away)

Here we have a cat, who is looking for a bowl of thick, warm milk and mistakes the shell at the bottom of the river for such a treat.

A young boy decides to go fishing at river and catch himself some nice ol' fish. Except he appears to have forgotten his rod and so stands perplexed at the side :)

Play some music, sit under the trees, feel warm and relaxed, doodle on a page and these are your results.

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The story we told at pass the parcel today was about a dog that, no matter how cross he was with his chicken friend who did not want to play with him, the dog always helped the chicken out (such as taking him to the doctor, helping him out of a hole and then eventually letting him be and not play with him). Such deep, lesson thinking children I have!