Grid copying drawings

I found a pack of index cards a while back. I think it was at Goodwill. The cool thing about them was that they were a bit larger than the usual ones and were squared instead of lined or blank.

I drew some templates for the kids of a train, a house, a birthday cake, a robot, a car etc... and then the kids tried to copy the pictures on their own index card using the squares to guide them.

The children were only four and five years old, but they did a pretty good job of it and I reckon this activity would work for kids up to about seven or eight even.

We had a bit of open interpretation of the templates too, which was fun and led onto a much less structured drawing session afterwards.