Frida Kahlo's such a popular artist, and she’s known for her self-portraits with her pets, including Me and My Parrots from 1941. Her birds are the inspiration for this project. A great introduction to the project is the picture book Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos by Monica Brown and John Parra, and/or Tree of Wonder: The Many Marvelous Lives of a Rainforest Tree by Kate Messner and Simona Mulazzani. Our second graders do a unit on the Amazon rainforest, and this is a great tie-in. I show two o