Camouflage

2nd graders study animal habitats and one of the things they learn about animals is how many of them are camouflaged.  So in Art students learned how to draw a lizard, colored it with oil pastels and cut it out.   Using watercolors they created a background that the lizards would be camouflaged on and glued them down.  

Kindergarten Snow Leopards

I have been using The Water Hole by Graeme Base with my kindergarteners as a base for the projects we have been doing. Love his books!  This week we painted snow leopards. I traced the outline of the leopard head and the students used the tan to fill it in and than were given black, yellow and white for the details.  I have also made number books for them with a world map and we have been putting small photos of the animals on the continents they come from.