Sketch-It Sunday Read and Illustrate Much Ado About Nothing, Acts III-V Today we’ll read and illustrate the second half of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. [One could also watch or listen to the play and illustrate along.] Don’t forget to draw a “cover image” for your collection! I’ll post the finished illustrations as they become […]
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Sketch-It Sunday: Read and Illustrate Much Ado About Nothing, Acts I-III
Sketch-It Sunday Read and Illustrate Much Ado About Nothing, Acts I-III You didn’t think we’d go without reading and illustrating Shakespeare during Advent, did you? After 2012’s Winter’s Tale and 2013’s As You Like It, and March Break’s adapted Bearicles, you couldn’t possible have thought we’d go without? Of course, we’re back! And we’re in […]
Family Advent Calendar, Day 22: Read & Illustrate As You Like It, Acts IV & V
“It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino! That o’er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: Sweet lovers love the Spring.” Today, we’re reading and illustrating the final two […]
Family Advent Calendar, Day 15: Read & Illustrate As You Like It, Act III
“O, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all whooping.” – Ceilia Today, we read and illustrate Act Three of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. I can’t wait to see what the kids produce this week!Need some alternative suggestions for the little ones again? Think of […]
Family Advent Calendar, Day 1: Illustrate-Your-Own Books, Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Act I [with some alternate options for the little ones]
“Blow, blow, thou winter wind….” Last year’s Winter’s Tale Illustrate-Your-Own Book Project was so successful that we thought we should illustrate books during Advent once again, this time, with Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Illustrate-Your-Own Books? How does it work? Each Sunday in Advent, we will read one or two acts from Shakespeare’s As You Like […]
Advent Shadowbox 2012: Day 2, Read & Illustrate The Winter’s Tale, Acts I-II
Today, we’re going to read the first one and a half acts of The Winter’s Tale with the kids and, after showing them some vintage illustrations of the play, we’ll ask them to design a few illustrations of their own. [We’ll post the results below when they become available.] I’ve wanted to read Shakespeare with […]