Fine motor skills are necessary for writing.  Practicing making simple shapes in pictures is a wonderful and fun way to develop early fine motor skills!  Putting shapes together to make an imaginary train makes it even more fun! 

In this class beginner drawing class, we will use a few shapes and a whole lot of imagination to make a fantasy train!  By assembling rectangles, circles, triangles, squares and trapezoids, along with learning "parallel lines" and patterns, we have the basic template for any train your learner can dream up!     Since learner ability will vary, we will keep it very simple as far as drawing the basic train in a directed drawing format (first, next, then, etc).    Then, for learners who are ready for a little more, we touch on patterns (such as alternating colors for the wheels, etc).  The main goal is to just give the learner a positive and fun experience with creative and suggested/directed drawing and spark their imagination!  We'll also briefly look at what a real train is at the beginning of class.   

This a fun, relaxed and low pressure environment.  Creativity is encouraged!  Bring your whole box of crayons and amaze each other with your colors and imagination!   This age range will be 3-6. (If you have a learner who is 7 and wants to participate, they are absolutely welcome also, but this is a high energy class in order to keep the attention of the younger ones).  Parental assistance might be necessary for younger learners but we'll keep the shapes basic and embellish from there!  

I like to keep mics open in class for conversation, but I know that life happens and backgrounds can be noisy, especially if we have a full class and that verbal parent instruction is often necessarily.  In these situations, for instruction, I will mute the learner but will frequently ask them to unmute so that they can speak and share their artwork because seeing everyone else's drawings and how different they all are is an incredibly fun part of class...and so is conversation!

This is basically a reboot of the holiday train class I ran over the holidays.  It was so incredibly fun that I just couldn't let it go and it's been adapted as just a fantasy or candy train class (if your learner doesn't like candy, they can add balloons, fruit, flowers etc!)  

Suggested ideas:  Learner can use markers, crayons or colored pencils.  I like sharp crayons for this class, since they colors are bright, but whatever they would like to use is fine.    Colored pencils will yield a more detailed pictures and a combination of both any mediums is workable.  

There isn't any homework, but I have listed some train songs and a book that can be additional resources :) 

"Animals In Winter: A Preschool and Kindergarten Drawing and Science Class!"
"D is for Draw a Dinosaur A Preschool and Kindergarten Alphabet Drawing Class"
"B Is for Butterfly C Is for Caterpillar: A Pre-K and Kindergarten Drawing Class"
Plus many more!  You can see them on my profile page!

I also run weekly circle time classes where we learn letters, numbers and different topics in science and social studies!: "Preschool Circle Time With Mrs. Kelly: Science, Social Studies and Art!"