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Florida Everglades

September 26, 2012 Ticia 9 Comments

We’ve started our state studies back up with Florida, and I’m so excited to be going again.

Florida Everglades picture book

I found a wonderful picture book, Everglades, look at these illustrations.  It has a simplistic plot, but the real reason to use this book is the illustrations.

After reading it I asked them to draw all they saw in it using our watercolor pencils.

Florida Everglades watercolor project

After happily coloring and drawing and painting for quite a while, the boys proudly showed me their work (Princess never quite got her project done to the standard of wanting her picture taken).

Florida Everglades project final results

So I present two boys who are very proud of their Florida Everglades projects.

arts and crafts, science swimming creatures

Comments

  1. Phyllis at All Things Beautiful says

    September 26, 2012 at 7:21 am

    Oh, that illustration is beautiful! I can see that it could be great inspiration!

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    • Ticia says

      September 26, 2012 at 8:06 am

      I know, I’ve found a couple of absolutely gorgeous books for Florida, and I’m loving looking through them.

  2. Christy says

    September 26, 2012 at 1:50 pm

    Florida is an interesting state to study. I miss doing the state studies. If only there were more hours in the day.

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    • Ticia says

      September 26, 2012 at 3:55 pm

      I do too. That’d make my life so much easier, especially right now when I’m feeling super busy!

  3. Jill says

    September 26, 2012 at 5:42 pm

    What beautiful illustrations in that book! Some of the states I have had a pickle of time finding age appropriate books to use with the state studies. What storybook is the picture from in this post?

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    • Ticia says

      September 26, 2012 at 5:46 pm

      Oops forgot to put that in the post:
      Everglades by George Jean Craighead

  4. maryanne @ mama smiles says

    September 26, 2012 at 7:12 pm

    Their drawings are beautifully green – just like the Everglades!

    Reply
  5. Natalie says

    September 26, 2012 at 11:10 pm

    Great idea to ask them to draw from inspiration in the book. Their results look so different!

    Reply

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