Hidden Safari

Based off of Henri Rousseau's work we talked about animals that are on safari. Students then made ruby red glasses. Then we practiced upside down drawing of an animal. Talking about warm and cool colors and patterns we then drew and animal using the upside down technique with a blue, a cool color, colored pencil. After we had our animal drawn. We then covered the animal with patterns in warm colors to camouflage the animal. We started with our lightest colored warm color and made at least three patterns with three different colored pencils. This was also very fun project. First drawing upside down turned out a lot better then I thought my drawing would. It gave me a lot of confidence in my drawing ability. But then it was also fun to look through the ruby glasses to see what animal was hidden in the safari. My children loved looking at this when I brought this project home. Plus,  you get to make super vision glasses, what fun. Students also provide three clues to help the viewer identify the animal in the picture.
As an extension activity you could also hide other items with patterns it wouldn't have to be just animals. Fruit could be another example. You could have students hide fruit that they would find in the jungle. Then this could lead to a nutrition talk to help incorporate health. You could also bring science in again and talk about the animals and their habitat. Or social studies and talk about safaris and where they are located.