Guatemalan Quetzal Birds

Georgetown’s third grade artists finished up their study of Mexico and South America with an exciting mixed-media project.  They began by learning about the Ojo de Dios weavings found in Mexico, and created their own Ojo weaving.  Once they got the hang of weaving their Ojo’s, the begged to make more – they have been promised another weaving session very soon!

Ojo de Dios weavings

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The Ojo weavings were added to the top of the 3rd grader’s beautiful drawings of a Guatemalan Quetzal bird.  The brightly colored Quetzal is the national bird of Guatemala and lives in the cloud forests of Central America.  Third graders worked hard to carefully shade and color their quetzals – aren’t their finished pieces wonderful?

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See more of our quetzal project on ARTSONIA here.

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4 thoughts on “Guatemalan Quetzal Birds

  1. Love the mix of medias. I also get a kick out of the perspective on the birds, from behind. Nice touch:)

  2. I love this project! My daughter is researching the quetzal for her school project. I was wondering if you had step by step directions you used to teach your students how to draw the quetzal.
    Thank you SO much!

  3. Hi Barbara – sorry for the late reply; spring break and preparing for our annual art show next week has me running behind. So, the quetzal project – we drew it step-by-step together; quetzals have a perfectly round head, so we made a fist-sized circle, followed by an oval body. We drew the tree limb next and then added tail feathers and details. The kids drew in pencil and traced with sharpie markers. The birds are simply colored with crayons, but I demonstrated how to do some careful shading using lots of shades of crayons. The background is rubbed with a crayon with the paper removed. The paper size was 6×18. We looked at lots of images of the quetzal bird, including a video of the bird flying…they are beautiful birds! Thanks for visiting our blog, hope this helps your daughter with her school project!

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