We decorated our classroom door and got 2nd place in our
'winter wonderland' door contest!
The key is to guide the children but give them the space they need to create !
Children were so happy to create, draw, paint, make snowflakes; and then a bit lucky to win. It was great fun....first, we used green and blue inks mixed with gesso and sponge-painted the background... next, we looked at some real-life cardinals in nature. Easy to find on the internet. Each student received a block of mixed-media paper to draw and color their birds. Just colored with red crayons and a bit of black for beaks and eyes. We talked about covering every white spot everywhere. Dark, dark, red, red! Then they made a branch for their cardinal to sit upon... we placed the cardinals on our background of blue-green white sponge painting.
And lastly, we made our snowflakes, so many. This was snow-much fun!
It was easy to cut out individual blocks of cardinals, snowflakes and branches so each child could bring home their artwork to hang in a window at home.
Merry Christmas from Lucky Room 13!
How to Draw a Cardinal
Easy step-by-step directions to draw a cardinal...
yet they all come out unique to the artist which makes your door perfect!
Our cardinals were drawn on white paper, colored in and then cut out. Background is the door backdrop which was painted before making the cardinals. Measure a sheet of white paper from that big roll for bulletin boards. This backdrop was painted and made a couple days before. 
and so many more drawings to do, too!