Try This: Amazing Animal Alphabet
Create a page about your favorite letter of the alphabet. Or get together with friends to make a page for each letter of the alphabet and make a whole book!
You Will Need:
- alphabet books to look at such as Graeme Base's Animalia (optional)- a dictionary (optional)
- sketch paper
- drawing paper- pencil and eraser
- crayons, markers, colored pencils, or watercolor pencils
Step 1: Brainstorm
If you like, go to a library or bookstore and look at some alphabet books for inspiration. Graeme Base's Animalia is a great one. Notice how authors and illustrators make interesting works of art about the alphabet.
Now choose a letter of the alphabet and brainstorm a list of words that start with the letter you chose. A dictionary can be very helpful.
Combine words to write silly sentences about your letter; "Humming hares hammer in hard hats. Hairy horses hike happily. Hilarious hippos have hiccups."
Choose your favorite sentence to illustrate.
(example: "Proud Peacocks Preening Perfect Plumage" from Animalia)
Step 2: Sketch
On scratch paper, make a sketch illustrating your sentence. You can include other objects from your list that start with your letter too.
Step 3: Final Drawing
Draw lightly with a pencil to make a final drawing of your alphabet page on drawing paper - don't forget to include the poem! You can draw over your pencil with a thin black marker, if you want a dark outline. Write a key of the hidden words that start with your letter on the back of your drawing.
