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We will be using Preparing Hearts next year. DS and I have been pouring over the books with great excitement... he even wants me to go ahead and read some of them NOW!!!
My question: After looking through Draw and Write Through History I am wondering how they are to actually complete each page, or section. For example, the first section of creation... It has a lesson on how to draw plants, then one on trees, dinosaurs and man. At the beginning of the section there is a completed full color drawing with all of these elements. Should the student do one element per page? Aim to put them all on the same page, and in the placement as the completed drawing in the beginning? Yet for the lesson of drawing man, a full figure is drawn, noting that the height should be 71/2 heads tall... and in the complete picture it only shows their heads and part of the upperbody sticking up from behind large plant leaves... Any suggestions as to how this should be done??? Thanks!

The PHFHG plans explain how to go about doing each part of Draw and Write Through History. The HOD plans break up the steps of completing a drawing over several days, while still leaving the final product open to artistic interpretation. For example, my ds put many of his drawings together on one piece of paper, because he liked to make his product look quite similar to the Draw and Write full color picture. On the other hand, my nephew loved to draw each of his things on separate pieces of paper, giving full attention to every beautiful detail - and then sometimes he would choose to cut out his finished items and arrange them in a scene of his choosing on another piece of paper. (My nephew is more artistically inclined than my ds, can you tell? ). Anyway, here are some examples of their work:


The step-by-step drawing made it easy for my ds to be successful with his drawing too, even though it's not necessarily "his thing". He was very proud of his final products, and I think your dc will be too!

In Christ,
Julie