Giotto and his father lived __ a small farm in Italy. Every day Giotto was sent __ watch their sheep in the hills. But Giotto loved to draw. He had __ pencil nor paper, but as he sat in the warm sunshine __ the sheep, he drew pictures in the sand __ a stick. Sometimes he covered stones with drawings __ things he saw about him.

Before he was very old, Giotto __ the chance to study drawing and painting with a great painter. He worked very __ __ and before many years had __ __ he could draw as well __ his master.