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PAINTER OF RURAL AMERICA |
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ACTIVITIES:
1. Draw or paint a favorite scene from your life right now. Be like Grandma Moses and include lots of artistic details.
2. Ask some adults that you know to talk about their favorite memories from childhood. Write down their memories and share them with you classmates.
3. Put on a skit that shows a typical day for children living 50 years from now when you may be a grandparent. Write a script to go with the skit.
4. Draw or paint a scene from Grandma Moses's life. You may paint yourself into the picture, too!
5. Write a letter as if you were Grandma Moses and send it to one of "your" children. Talk about the paintings you are working on now.
6. Write a poem about one of Grandma Moses's paintings that appears in the book.
