What is printed on the page. On the right there is a large black-and-white outline drawing — a flowerpot full of leaves and three flowers, standing on a wooden chair. That is the drawing you must design and colour. Down the left margin there are three finished examples to give you the idea. In each one the flowerpot has become a person: the pot is the face, the plant on top is the hair, and the pot is wearing a colourful frock or shirt and shorts, with two little pots for shoes hanging from the chair.
How to make your own Flowerpot Friend, step by step:
- Give it a face. Draw two eyes on the wide part of the pot, a small nose and a smiling mouth. Round eyes make it look friendly.
- Make the plant its hair. Colour the leaves and flowers on top. You could give it green leafy hair, or red rose hair, or long thin hair like grass.
- Dress it. The lower part of the pot becomes the body. Draw a frock, a kurta, a shirt with a collar, or a dhoti — whatever you like. Add sleeves at the sides.
- Give it legs and shoes. Draw two thin legs hanging from the chair, and two small upside-down pots at the ends as shoes.
- Colour it. Use the colours you learnt in Let us Do — mix red and yellow for orange, red and blue for purple. Try to use all seven rainbow colours somewhere in your picture.
- Name it and write one line about it under the picture.
Sample answer (write this under your drawing): My Flowerpot Friend is called Chameli. Her hair is made of three white jasmine flowers and long green leaves. Her face is a light orange pot with two round black eyes and a big smile. She wears a purple frock with yellow dots and a green border. Her shoes are two small red pots. She sits on a brown wooden chair near our window all day, and every evening she watches the sky turn orange. When it rains she is the happiest flowerpot in the land, because rain is her drinking water and a rainbow is her favourite thing to look at.