Activity Wednesday - The Rought Faced Girl

Last weekend we finished our follow up to the Rought Faced Girl story.  I think this was a great family activity as it involved negotiation of working styles and ideas for the story.  It was hard at first for the girls not to just tell the disney follow up story and pushing them outside of that narrative was good.

I appreciated that we got to think about the original story some more and to talk about what the characters would do next based on what we already knew of them.  It gave us an opportunity to compare and discuss our different drawing styles and abilities.  Beside is my tipi heavily influenced by the original drawings in the story which I really liked.  R enjoyed drawing the nauty sisters.

S drew the inside of the tipi "sky palace" and was concerned as she drew a very modern interior with a dishwasher and tv.  That led to a good talk about how indians aren't only in the past.

I would reccomend this activity.  Take a book your family likes and make the follow up.  We have now had the pleasure of reading this new story together and R was very proud that we made a book together.  I also like that we have a new piece of family lore that we can enjoy over the years.