Hidden Safari

 Description: 

For this activity, we started out by creating glasses with red film that were kind of like the 3-D glasses you get at the movie theater. We created these together as a class. Then, we practiced in our binders drawing different images upside down because it helps you look at the lines of the image instead of the image as a whole. Next, we choose an animal to draw for our project. We used a blue colored pencil and drew the animal upside down on a piece of white construction paper. Then, we used a variety of different warm color crayons like red, yellow, and orange and drew different patterns over the animal. When I had finished drawing different patterns in warm colored crayons over my animal, I glued the paper onto a larger piece of construction paper and used a notecard to write three clues about the animal hidden on my paper. At the end, I used my 3-D glasses that I had created and looked through them at my project to see through all of the warm colored patterns I had drawn. I was able to see the animal underneath much better through my glasses than I could without them. 

Extension: 

After students have finished the project, they could do some research on the animal they drew and create a PowerPoint presentation talking about their animal. They could even present the PowerPoint to the class in order to practice their public speaking skills.