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Hazel’s Treehouse – Easy Book Week costume
Calling all Hazel fans! This costume is super easy. You might need to visit an op shop for one or two items, but you may have everything already in the house. Best of all, you can download a little activity to make a cutout version of Hazel’s friend Tiny, who travels in her top pocket.
POCKET TINY – instructions to print and make (corrected)
Guide to a HAZEL Book Week costume
Hazel’s Treehouse – looking at lineart styles
This is for art curious upper primary school aged students or secondary students. It is to explore some of the different ways that illustrators have worked using only black and white ink with no added wash or tone.
It’s only a rough guide with a few discussion points. When I visit a school, I go into a more detailed discussion. There’s a practice drawing sheet at the end that can be used as a rough template by students wanting to develop their own drawing style.
Creating new characters from scratch
This is for almost any age student apart from the very youngest. It demonstrates two ways to come up with a new character design from scratch – starting with blob drawings, or starting with ‘blind’ drawing from a toy or plastic animal.
Do you need some blobs for students to use in this activity? You can make your own pretty easily, but if you don’t have time, you can download these.
Go ahead and put your new character into a zine!
Now your students have created their very own characters, they might like to think up a simple story for their character to appear in. Or they may just like to practise drawing their character in different poses doing different things, in order to refine the character design and personality.
Eight-page zines, folded from a single sheet of paper are a great place to try out either of these options, and aren’t overwhelming for beginner author-illustrators. Below you can find instructions on how to fold a zine, and a document showing how I developed Calamity Cow. You can also download Calamity Cow herself, and fold her into a zine to show the students. If students wish you colour in Calamity Cow, I have no objection!
Jo and the NO teachers’ notes and information
Searching for Cicadas – images and classroom activities.
Below are images from Searching for Cicadas to use however you wish. I have a detailed classroom activity on my blog that’s based on the leaf litter endpapers and wanders into field naturalist territory. It isn’t downloadable as a pdf, but if you read the blog post here, you’ll know what to do.
rough cicadas for cover – low res
JudyWatsonArt black and white nymphs
flying cicada outlines only for colouring in
Thunderstorm Dancing colouring in sheets
These are simple colouring in sheets for lazy times!
Poppy craft print Judywatsonart
Cat and bird craft print Judywatsonart
To download Adobe Acrobat for free go here.
Judy Watson 
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