Tag: Education
Drawing for Literacy
Children love drawing. Give them paper and pencil, suggest something for them to draw – maybe show them how to draw it – and they are away. While they draw, they are improving their hand/eye co-ordination skills, learning about the thing they are drawing and building up a story. When I show a class of…
How to draw 16 different moustaches for Father’s Day
It’s Father’s Day this weekend in the UK as well as in the US – I don’t know why Mother’s days are different. As a bit of fun, I thought I would show you how to draw several different moustaches, 16 in fact. You could draw them all or choose one and adapt the drawing…
Longsight Big Book Bash on 21st June
I visited Stanley Grove Academy last year and had the pleasure of opening their new library as well as spending a couple of days telling stories, talking about writing and showing how to draw things. They have asked me back! This time to open their Big Book Bash – a whole afternoon of book related…
