"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I will still each have one apple each. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
George Bernard Shaw
- Take an apple and draw or paint it.
- Take a bite of your apple, and draw it again.
- Keep taking bites and drawing your apple until you are drawing only the core.
- Put core in the compost bin!
This is easy to do and is a fun way to practice drawing skills for adults and children. If you sketch the apple, get the children to look carefully at what shapes there are and how light and dark they are. Sometimes it's a good idea to screw your eyes up and look.
Children tend to get good results, and enjoy seeing their apples progressively "get eaten" on the paper that they are drawing on.
This is a good task to start using watercolour with, if you want them to paint the apple.
You can even try this in the UK with infant children's free piece of fruit in schools.
This fits in with, work on healthy eating in science, or a lesson on Adam and Eve.
Problems to watch out for in a school setting,
- Check any health and hygiene rules.
- "Painty hands" on the apple.
- Choking
