Dreamy Landscapes

If you can create your own landscape how do you want it to look? My students said: green fields, mountains, water (sea), blue skies, trees,and a barn house. So I designed a landscape in my mind incorporating everything they said and made them draw this through simple instructions:

Create a diagonal line on your paper to construct your landscape. On one half of the line draw triangles for mountains and the other half (left side) draw a line to create the sea. Then draw a road using two diagonal lines that get smaller as it goes in the distance. Draw a square for a barn with triangle roof, circle and two lines for the tree, and then apply color! And we got their dream landscape! Hmmm, I think I can live in that place too!


Chiara, age 6


Caryn, age 8


And this by adult student Ignacio with disabilities (mental retardation)