Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15th. We decided to celebrate the day by reading out him in the encyclopdia. I knew he had painted the Mona Lisa but learned some of the other things he did as well and the day grew from there.
The picture above is a self-portrait that da Vinci had done. It was a beautiful day so we took the sidewalk chalk outside and did self-portraits of our own. Then we washed the cars (a bonus for me) and washed our drawings away. Inside we continued to be artists as we did some painting of whatever they wanted to paint.
Another interest of da Vinci's was flight. He made sketches of parachutes and even his idea for a helicopter. After learning that we made
tissue paper parachutes and talked about gravity for our science lesson. Older children could expand this into learning about Newton as well.
It was good to talk about how you can do lots of different things like da Vinci did and learn about anything that seems interesting to you at the moment.
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