The Paper Bag Princess Class Book - How To Trick A Dragon!
Class Book Using the, "Draw with Felts, Color with Crayons" Method
After reading Robert Munsch's wonderful story, The Paper Bag Princess, a few times at the beginning of the week, my students discussed the word, "trick" and why and how the princess in the story tricked the dragon.
The following day, we studied the pictures in the book and talked about how, Michael Martchenko, the book's illustrator, drew the dragon and the colors he chose to draw it.
We looked at the different actions he had the dragon doing, sometimes flying, sometimes scrunched on the ground and how he changed the dragon's expressions to show different emotions.
On the last day of discussing the book, each child thought of a new way to trick a dragon and illustrated their page using the "draw with felts, color with crayons" method (check it out here...).
How to Trick A Dragon Student Pages
Some of the images below would have been quite unrecognizable if completed with felt markers only. Drawing the pictures with one color of felt marker, then coloring with crayons only, preserved the details of the children's dragon pictures. As you can see, a few children slipped in a few more marker colors!
The children dictated their stories which I printed out and then glued on their page. The end result was an exciting class book that the students wanted me to read over and over.
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