The Hidden Safari

This project was really cool to me because I had never done anything like this before! First, we experimented with drawing some images upside down. We learned that doing this tricks your eye into focusing more on space and lines. After doing this exercise, we chose an animal that we could see in the jungle. There we lots of pictures of examples given. I chose an elephant. We were told to have it upside down, and then to try drawing the animal. We were given a light blue colored pencil. Then, we were to use the elements and principles of design to hide our animals using warm colors. Also, we used the concept of patterns. We also made some really neat sneaky glasses that we could use to discover the hidden image. Lastly, we were told to describe three things about our animal.

As an extension activity, I think it would be really neat to do a social day. You could show the movie, "The Lion King." Then, you could have the students act out their favorite animal or scene in the movie. After acting out the different parts, then you could have the students make a giant hidden safari image. They could draw out a part of the movie or their favorite scene that they watched, and as a group they could make a giant hidden and secret image.