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Picture hunt sheet

Twelve real pictures from the Art wall of Their First Art, each with one thing to find: a hare, the cats, a big wave, something red. Hunt for them in the app, then for the same things in picture books, on your own walls, or in a museum. It goes with the parent guide A picture hunt.

How to use it

  1. Print the two sheets. Sheet 1 is the hunt; sheet 2 has three things to say and the name and maker of every picture.
  2. Open Their First Art on the Art wall, or take the sheet into a room with pictures: a library, a museum, your own walls.
  3. Read one line aloud, like “Find the cats.” Look for that picture, or for the thing in it: a cat on a book cover counts too.
  4. When your child finds it, they tick the box. A dot or a scribble is a fine tick.
  5. Talk about it for a moment, then stop while it is still a game. Twelve pictures can last many days.
Letter or A4, portrait. Pictures print best with “background graphics” on.

Picture hunt

Tick each one you find.

  1. The Young Hare by Albrecht Dürer
  2. The Four Cats by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
  3. The Elephant by Rembrandt van Rijn
  4. The Giraffe by Niko Pirosmani
  5. Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh
  6. The Irises by Ogata Kōrin
  7. The Great Wave by Katsushika Hokusai
  8. The Barrel in the Waves by Ivan Bilibin
  9. The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
  10. The Boy in Red by Francisco de Goya
  11. The Girl with the Watering Can by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  12. The Smiling Painter by Judith Leyster

Every picture hangs on the Art wall of Their First Art. The names and makers are on sheet 2.

Who made them

For the grown-up

Three things to say

What can you see?

Where is the hare? Can you point?

The Great Wave. Hokusai made it.

Say the picture’s name, then who made it, the way the app does and a museum label does. Any answer is a good one, even “dog” for a fox.

The twelve pictures

  1. The Young Hare · Albrecht Dürer, 1502. On a museum label: Young Hare. Albertina, Vienna. Public domain.
  2. The Four Cats · Utagawa Kuniyoshi, about 1840. On a museum label: Cats in Various Poses. Woodblock print. Public domain.
  3. The Elephant · Rembrandt van Rijn, 1637. On a museum label: An Elephant. Albertina, Vienna. Public domain.
  4. The Giraffe · Niko Pirosmani, about 1905. Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi · Photo: Gleb Simonov. Public domain.
  5. Sunflowers · Vincent van Gogh, 1888. National Gallery, London. Public domain.
  6. The Irises · Ogata Kōrin, about 1705. On a museum label: Irises (Kakitsubata-zu), right screen. Nezu Museum, Tokyo. Public domain.
  7. The Great Wave · Katsushika Hokusai, about 1831. On a museum label: Under the Wave off Kanagawa. The Met, New York. Public domain.
  8. The Barrel in the Waves · Ivan Bilibin, 1905. From the 1905 book The Tale of Tsar Saltan. Public domain.
  9. The Starry Night · Vincent van Gogh, 1889. MoMA, New York. Public domain.
  10. The Boy in Red · Francisco de Goya, about 1788. On a museum label: Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga. The Met, New York. Public domain.
  11. The Girl with the Watering Can · Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876. On a museum label: A Girl with a Watering Can. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Public domain.
  12. The Smiling Painter · Judith Leyster, about 1630. On a museum label: Self-Portrait. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Public domain.

Real paintings, drawings and prints by the artists named here, in the order of sheet 1. Their First Art · theirfirstwords.org/art