Window View Drawing

What you need

• a sheet of paper on a book or a tray
• crayons
• a chair by a window

How to do it

1. Pull a chair up to a window and look out together for a minute. What can you both see?
2. Let your child choose three things to draw first, like the sky, a tree and the house opposite, and start with the biggest.
3. Count small things as they go in: how many windows on that house, how many birds on the fence, how many clouds.
4. Keep watching while they draw, and add anything that comes past: a cat, a bike, a falling leaf.

Why it matters

A window gives them something real to look at and put down on paper, and checking back and forth between the view and the page slows everything down.

What they're learning

Drawing what they see

Looking up, then putting it on the page.

Counting from life

Four windows on the house, so four in the drawing.

Noticing change

Something new comes past the window.

What to look for

Notice them looking up at the window and back down before they add something.

A tip

Pick a window with a bit going on outside, like a garden or a road with trees, and rest the paper on a book so it stays flat on their lap.

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