Teaching Kids Art Through Picture Books

Have you ever been at a place, say, the airport, and it was just fun to watch people? It is fun to look at all the faces of all the travelers...every one of them completely unique. Have your kids ever wanted help drawing a human face? Today I will give you a simple demonstration on how to draw a face.

 "Decades of scientific research shows that faces are of particular importance even to newborn babies. In the first several hours after birth, a baby can recognize her mother’s face and distinguish that face from strangers...Clearly, faces are an important factor in infant development," says  Kaitlyn Torrez, on the blog KeaBabies.  We are born with a fascination with faces. This is evident to us every time we interact with our new grandbaby--look at his preferential gaze to his mama!

And many children love to draw faces. I often incorporate some type of portrait drawing in Storygalorey classes. I like to give kids lots of practice drawing the proportions of the human face. In the last...