Fairytale birds are the characters of many famous literary works. All of them, as a rule, are depicted in pictures as beautiful and bright, with wide wings and luxurious tails. In the art class in elementary school, you can devote a lesson to these characters.
Fairytale birds are incredibly interesting.
Of course, kids with great pleasure will embark on such a creative work. Fairytale birds cannot fail to arouse interest in children, not to captivate them, not to lead into complete delight.
You can depict them in various ways. These can be fabulous birds drawn with pencils, paints, felt-tip pens, wax crayons, or applications.
Such an activity, by the way, will not just please the child. It will allow the development of his fantasies, imagination, sense of color. In addition, children will be educated in artistic taste, as well as respect for the diverse traditions of all the peoples of the world.
By the way, it would be nice to have audio recordings with songs and poems about various fairy birds. It will be much more interesting for children to draw or glue applications, perceiving audio material by ear, imagining the portrayed characters brighter, clearer, more realistic.
Start the lesson with a fairy tale.
What else can be said about the organization of such a lesson? It would be nice to start the lesson with one of the tales of these mysterious magical creatures. In bright colors, describe the plumage of birds, beak, eyes, flight.
After the tale is read, children can ask a few questions. All answers must be discussed together. The teacher can supplement them with new facts. After all, these birds are fabulous creatures, so in them reality is combined with fantasy.
Associations with Flowers
Before starting directly to work on a drawing or application, discuss with the kids what colors they want to use for their future masterpiece and why.
Show the children a palette, explain that fabulous birds can be both cold and warm colors. Yellow, red, orange characters, for example, should be associated in children with fire, the sun, energy, joy, activity. Birds of cold tones (cyan, violet, blue), on the contrary, help a person to feel the calming coolness. As a result, each child will determine what his work will be. The drawing or application “Fairytale Bird” will be a wonderful decoration of the wall above the work table of your child. It can also be used as a postcard. After all, a handmade gift is doubly pleasant.
Draw an analogy with live birds
You can do the following. The teacher can conduct a quiz in the lesson of the Arts "Fairytale bird and its differences from the present." For starters, children just need to remember the various magic birds. Specify from what fairy tales they are, what they are known for, what opportunities they had, what role they played in the lives of other heroes.
After this, the kids can take turns calling the external differences of the fabulous birds from the real ones. This is their color, and shape, and patterns. You can compete in the knowledge of on what household items fabulous birds are found (on carpets, embroidery, dishes, wooden products, etc.).
As soon as the quiz comes to an end, the kids can prepare brushes, paints, colored paper and other attributes necessary for the job.
We draw and glue
So where do you start the creative process? It all depends on what type of work will be performed. Drawing a fairytale bird is an interesting and fascinating activity. Here, each child will be able to express their imagination in their own way.
First of all, it is necessary to depict the body of the bird and the contours of the legs. To do this, children draw an oval for the body, triangles for future wings and an arbitrary figure for the tail. The paws are depicted at the initial stage in the form of simple lines.
After that, wings are drawn. The curved contours of the feathers are very easy to draw. The next step is the torso and head. Here you need to draw an elongated eye, a beak and a small crest on the top of the head. Small feathers are also depicted on the body.
The main feathers are drawn long and curved, after them - a tail of the same feathers. The same slope is made when the lines are displayed, with the exception of those feathers that are closest to the body of the bird.
After that, the legs are adjusted, and you can begin to colorize. Colorful birds look very beautiful and mysterious. You can also add various flowers here.
By the way, such work may also include additional elements. Bright and interesting, for example, can be a drawing application. A fairytale bird depicted on paper can be decorated with colored cardboard, feathers, pieces of cloth, etc.
At the end of the lesson, you can hang all the work on the board. Accordingly, the teacher organizes an exhibition "Bird's yard". Children with great pleasure will consider the drawings and applications of their comrades, discuss them, share their impressions.