For this short activity, we learned about Medieval  Bestiary drawings and then applied them to a fun  blind drawing activity. This activity was a one hour lesson that the students had so much fun with!

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Group the students into pairs and assign them each a role (Artist A & B, for example). Artist A is going to draw first and Artist B is going to describe. The describe-r gets randomly assigned an image of your choosing. In class we used images of modern animals, but the rare or strange looking kind. Without showing their partner or revealing what it "looks like" they must describe the creature. Just like medieval Bestiary drawings, the animals look a little "off" hah! This is a silly and creative activity that can be a warm-up or a stand alone lesson.

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It was originally taught to elementary middle school Special Ed but will be easily adaptable to almost any elementary age group. To adapt it for anything that you want, try having the students spend more or less time on their drawings or integrate this by remind them what questions would be good or helpful to ask. 

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