Hidden Safari

For this project we created an animal, hidden behind patterns and designs of warm colors. For this project you will need white computer paper, construction paper, crayons, a pencil, colored pencils, and glue. The hidden animal can only be seen with the red glasses, since it is hidden behind the warm colors. To begin, draw an animal in pencil, and then trace with a blue colored pencil. You need to trace in a blue colored pencil so it is dark. Once you have your animal drawn and traced, you will take warm colored crayons and create designs and patterns over your animal, making sure to cover most of the page. By drawing patterns and designs in warm colors, you make the animal hidden. Once you put on the glasses, the warm colors will be blocked out more and the animal will appear again. Once you have the designs and patterns covering your animal, take the white sheet of paper and glue it down to one side of the construction paper. Then you will write three clues next to your piece hidden animal in order to help viewers guess.

An extension activity you can do with this is incorporating it into science. If you are doing a unit on mammals, you can talk about different types of mammals and talk about what makes them unique and where they live. Students then can choose what mammal they want to draw and research more about and then list clues and facts about their animal. The class then can guess what animal the student drew and hid based off of the clues and facts.