Hidden Safari

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Description: This activity is a dun activity that is interactive for students. Students first create a pair of red glasses. The will use construction paper and red film. Students will use a template to create the frame of their glasses and then will tape the red film into the eye pieces of the glasses. Once students have created their glasses, they can create their design. Using a light blue colored pencil and a light hand, students can draw their image they want to see when they put their glasses on. In this one I drew an elephant from a picture i saw. We were shown the drawing upside down technique to allow students to focus on the different aspects of the image rather than the final result. This technique includes the students flipping their image upside down and drawing the parts of the image and then flipping it back over and adjusting what they would like after the image is mostly drawn upside down. Once the image has been drawn in blue students will use warm colored pencils to hide their image. I used red, orange and yellow to cover my drawing of an elephant. After the image of the elephant has been hidden i used thee sentence to describe the image that I drew to have the students guess what the animal is before they put their red glasses on. 

Extension Activity: This activity could be used in math. Students could practice their knowledge of geometry by doing something similar to this. instead of drawing and describing an animal they could draw a shape that the learned about and describe it to their classmates. Once students have guess what each classmate has drawn, then they can use their glasses to look at the images and get the answer. 











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