Going on a Safari!

This project is used to introduce students to warm and cool colors. This project is called a hidden drawing. The picture is hidden, and you need special glasses to see the picture. We made our own glasses from red film and construction paper so we could see the animals. The project is done by drawing a picture in a light cool color, we used the color sky blue. Our theme was a hidden safari, so we all drew pictures of safari animals. We drew over the picture in shapes in a pattern form to hide the drawing with warm colors such as reds, oranges, and yellows. We also wrote three clues to be displayed with our animals for people to guess. 

An extension activity for this class could still be related to the safari theme but have them talk about what they did over the weekend or draw their favorite place and hide it behind the shapes. This way they can talk about what they drew and what is meaningful to them.

Story Collage

This week in class we talked about Eric Carle and how he created his books. We did the projected and mimicked his work. First, we took blank sheets of paper and painted them many different ways to get a swirled look. Next, we sketched out a part of a story that we wanted to create. After that we took our painted sheets and cut out the parts we wanted and made our storybook page. My story collage was inspired by the book "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom". It was and still is my favorite story book so I took a page out of that and recreated it with Eric Carle's style.

An extension activity off of this would be to recreate a scene from another book that they are reading at the time whether it has pictures or not. They can use their imagination this way and use their senses to be a part of the story.