I use Five in a Row, along with various other resources, in teaching the children and this week we "rowed" a book called Owl Moon.   The FIAR manual suggested that the art lesson this week discuss the various perspectives an artist can choose and point out the differences between drawing something to appear realistic as opposed to less so. 

To involve my children in these lessons I gave each two pieces of paper that had been folded in half to created a dviding line. On the first piece of paper I'd written "Cartoon Tree" on one side and "Real Tree" on the other.  We looked at several examples of each type of drawing in other books (I actually used coloring books for the cartoon trees as that's what I had handy) and then the children each drew their own versions on their paper.

For the lesson in  perspective, I labeled on side of the paper "Like an Owl" and the other "Like a Bug."  To help the kids' get a better idea of what I was looking for we looked at illustrations from Owl Moon and a wordless book called In the Woods that shows realistic images from a bug's point of view.  Each child then drew a picture intended to demonstrate these two perspectives.  I don't know that my 5 y.o. quite got the concept.  She drew a flower on one side and a very large bug on the other- but I guess if one bug were looking at another, it would look that large. LOL!  My older child did a great job drawing grass and a tree trunk from the bug's point of view and the top down view of the tree, grass and the bug from the owl's. 

This was a very simple lesson and only required materials that I had sitting in the room with me already- that's just the kind of lesson I like.