I recently volunteered to teach a Watercolor Painting project for kids ages 6-10 at the Theodore Roosevelt Nature Sanctuary. This center cares for and rehabilitates wild birds, especially owls. They have a few screech owls, so depicting an owl was the perfect opportunity to have a creative, fund-raising event for this center. We had one of the live screech owls model for the students right in the classroom, while we drew & painted our screech owl artworks. The owl was surprisingly calm during posing, perhaps it enjoyed being famous ;) 

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/kids-watercolor-workshop-at-tr-sanctuary-1.3363180