Hidden Safari

 

What is this? This project is called the hidden safari project. Here we learned about different animals and fauna found in the safari which in turn is also a geography lesson. We used our previous knowledge of colors that are warm vs cool and contrasting colors. We each chose an animal to draw where we looked at a stencil and were asked to flip the stencil over and focus on drawing the lines/shapes we see. This helps us to draw and not focus on what the animal looks like. Astoundingly my animal didn't turn out half bad. We also made glasses that had a red see-through plastic that showed only the daring of the animal behind all of the patterns that were drawn in warm colors to distract the eye. You can only see the animal once you hold up the glasses to your eye. 

Extension Activity: I would use this lesson in writing where we have our students write a couple sentences in the blue pencil where they summarize an article we read together. They then have to use warm colors to cover up the writing so it would be like a secrete message. 

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