It was very common in the early 1900s to publish a children’s page in the newspapers and provide drawing lessons, such as the following lesson for drawing a parrot.
Adults and home schooled children can use the old drawing lessons to both learn how to draw and as part of the art curriculum.
The follow item on how to draw a parrot was originally published in 1914.
Source: New-York tribune. (New York [N.Y.]), 19 July 1914.