Hidden Safari Picture

For our hidden safari picture, we started off by using a light blue pencil to draw any safari animal on a white piece of paper. We chose our safari animal from a packet that we received from our teacher. When we drew the animal, we drew it upside down and didn’t press very hard with the pencil. After we drew the animal, we took crayons using warm colors to draw different patterns over the animal drawing. I used yellow, orange, red, and magenta to draw four different patterns over the animal. After that, we mounted our white piece of paper onto a colored piece of paper.

 

The idea of drawing different patterns using warm colors over the animal drawing was because when you hold the picture up an arms length away, you didn’t want to be able to tell what animal that you drew or be able to see the picture. That’s why we also made red goggles/glasses using grafix clear lay film. We used these glasses to look at the pictures; we were able to see the animal clearly through the patterns when we used the glasses. It was really neat and fun!

 

An extension activity for this project could be to use this when talking about animals or life cycles of an animal during a science class. The students could pick a certain animal to draw as well as include some more information depending on what they are learning about them in science class. It’s a fun activity, especially when you get to use the glasses; kids really get into it and they think the glasses are “magical”.