Hidden Safari

In this project we learned some safari animals, and then we each got to pick one to draw.  So, from a print out of the animal, we drew in sky blue colored pencil, the animal we chose... upside down!  Once we had finished that we talked about patterns, and used warm colors to camoflauge our animal drawn in the cool color blue.  We overlapped the patterns until our animal was hard to see.  The on way we could see them was by using our red glasses that had red lenses. 

An extension activity for this project that would be great with the age level is learning about animals.  Learning the different kinds of animals: mammals, reptiles, amphibians, etc.  Have the students do this project with an animal research that they choose, and on the back, have all the reasearch about the animal.  (What kind of animals might we want to hide them from? Where are they found? etc.)