Hidden Safari
To start this art lesson we made 'red light' glasses by using a template. Once our glasses were made, we used the upside-down technique to begin our safari animal (of our choice) drawing. The idea of this drawing technique was to get us students to focus on the spacing and the shapes of the picture, rather than focusing on trying to perfectly draw the image. Having the image that I was trying to draw upside- down allowed me to have a better idea of the spacing between each line or shape; which resulted in a better product than if I were to draw it normally.
The goal of this activity was to draw an animal lightly with a light blue color pencil so that the image would not be obviously visible to the eye (because the warm color pattern would be the main focal point), but would become visible when looking through the 'red-light glasses. After our animal was drawn on the regular white sheet of paper, we used crayons (specifically warm colors) to create a pattern of many different shapes, lines, layers, etc. to cover the animal image. To finish our art activity, we glued our project onto a solid red piece of construction paper for the background and were then asked to come up with three different clues to help our peers guess what animal was hidden.
Extension Activity:
I would integrate this art project into an ELA lesson, by having students write their sight words, spelling words, or vocabulary words for the week on a piece of paper using a cool color (sky blue) pencil. Students would then, like this assignment, create a pattern over the words and would be able to see the words when looking through the red overlay lens. This gives students an exciting and fun way to practice and learn their sight, spelling, or vocabulary words for the week. This activity can be tailored to fit any grade level. This could also be beneficial for students to learn the expected terms in other subjects, giving more opportunity for students to learn those vocabulary words in different ways and not just through reading.
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