we're going on a safari!

As we begin to prepare our lessons to teach to our classmates, we participated in an example lesson about warm and cool colors. This lesson, entitled "Hidden Safari," is for first grade.

The safari required "magic ruby red glasses" because the animals were hiding! The glasses were constructed by folding strips of paper in half and using the provided pattern to cut the eye holes. Next, red cellophane was attached to create the lenses.

After viewing a quick clip from the Lion King movie, we learned about warm and cool colors and how we would use them in our project. We practiced upside down drawings with contour lines. Then, we created an upside down contour drawing by following an example sheet of safari animals. This was done with the cool color of blue.

In order to "hide" our animals, we add warm colors to make a pattern. We discussed repetition of a design and frequently check with our "magic ruby red glasses" to see if we could still see our animal.

After we were finished we wrote three clues for our animals. Can you guess?

Extension activities for this project can be completed in science as well as language arts. Students can research the safari animal they have chosen to show in their picture and write about the characteristics of that animal.

Have a creative day!
Marissa