Monday, April 23, 2012

Hidden Safari


For this lesson, we made animals that you may see on a safari, but we made the animals look hidden. First to start the project I made red glasses with a red film on them which will help us see the animals. Next, I selected an animal to draw. I turned the image of the animal upside down in order to draw it on a sheet of white paper. By having it upside-down it was easier to focus on the lines of the animal. It was easier to start from the bottom of the animal and draw up to the head. I used a sky blue colored pencil to outline the animal- you have to use a cool color to draw it in order for the project to work. Sky blue works the best in order to catch the full effect. After I had the animal drawn out, I used red, yellow, and orange crayons and created a pattern over top the image of the animal. The crayons are warm colors, so they hid the blue outline. 
An extension activity that could be used would be to incorporate this activity into other subjects.  You could do math problems and put the answers on another sheet of paper, and the students would have to use their glasses to see the answers.

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