Pokemon cards* are all the rage at my kids’ elementary school, just as I remember them being popular with some of my younger siblings’ classes. Nine-year-old Emma spent her savings on some cards. They arrived Friday afternoon, and all four kids have been using them as inspiration for drawing all weekend.
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Using Pokemon Cards to Learn to Draw
Pokemon cards are actually pretty decent tools for learning how to draw! My kids like that each card is unique. There are a wide range of characters, and I like that they are very emotionally expressive. The simple lines, small scale, and emphasis on one character per card makes this a very approachable drawing exercise! The cards feature lots of different backgrounds, too. So far my kids haven’t draw those at all, focusing exclusively on the characters, but it is something they could do to branch out over time.
What do your kids like to draw?
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MaryAnne is a craft loving educator, musician, photographer, and writer who lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Mike and their four children.
Emma Grace likes to go outside and draw trees and nature. She’s getting pretty good!
That is very cool. I would love to see some of her drawings!
Emma draws beautifully! I love how Pokemon cards inspire her to draw! My son loved the cards but he didn’t draw much though comics are inspiring him to draw now.
That is very cool that comics are inspiring your son to draw now!
Funny, I had no idea Pokemon was back! Those were big when I was teaching.
My kids probably draw every day. They both have little journals for doodling and we always have lots of blank paper on hand. They are two very different drawers! MacGyver is into nonfiction . . . dinosaurs, dragons, reptiles, insects . . . . Miss Enigma is big into people, friends, family, our dogs and animals. She shows much more emotion in her drawings.
I was surprised to see Pokemon come back this year – such a classic!
Those drawings you show are very good, so detailed! My kids have been drawing on envelopes for the tooth fairy lately – we’ve had four teeth out in the last week!
I need your kids to teach at least one of my kids how to get a tooth out, rather than letting it dangle (and dangle and dangle)
Hmm… Pokemon mania hasn’t visited our school yet… or my daughter is not interested in that. She has no interest in superheroes or anything related to any sort of TV characters :)
That’s not a bad thing! It’s interesting that we don’t live that far apart but the interests are so different.
I find it amazing Pokemon cards are still the rage 13 years after I quite teaching.
My daughter got a “how to draw” book for a late birthday present and loves it.
They are just coming back, at least at my kids’ school. Last year you didn’t hear anything about them…
Wow I’m so amazed Pokemon cards are still the rage! My nephews were so into that, and they’re 22 now haha! My eldest is so into bridges now ever since we visited San Francisco, so all he draws are bridges (the ones he saw in SF and even the ones down here, though we don’t have nearly as many).
San Francisco has some very amazing bridges!