Hidden Safari

With this lesson, to get the students attention and to get them interested in the art project, we talked about what kind of animals they would find in the safari. We also talked about what our favorite animals are that are within the safari. We created our glasses that would help us to see the animals within our safari. The glasses were made up of construction paper and cellophane. Then an example was shown of the art project that was going to be created. We were asked if we could see an animal within the picture without our glasses we created. Then we put our glasses on and could see the animal within the picture. Then we went through and drew different parts of an animal to have some practice with drawing. Next we chose an animal we wanted to draw. We drew our picture upside down which helped to not look at the big picture and to just look at the lines being drawn. The animal needed to be drawn with a cool color, such as sky blue. After the animal was drawn we took three warm colors, red, yellow, and orange, and drew a pattern over top of our animal. This helped to hide our animal from the naked eye. Once everyone was finished with their project they were presented to the class and the class used their glasses to see if they could make out what animal was hiding within the picture.

For an extension activity I would incorporate this lesson with a science lesson. We could go through all different kinds of animals found in the safari and categorize them with their kingdom, such as a mammal, amphibian etc. Once they are categorized we then would go through their characteristics of that specific kingdom and why a specific animal is in that group.

Another extension activity I would incorporate would be in a math lesson. Using the different shapes and patterns used within their picture we would determine what shape it is. We would also then use those shapes to do different math problems such as adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing how many sides the shapes have.