I have a good one where you take a piece of wallpaper(with a pattern not too hard for them to copy) Make a cutout of a chameleon with oaktag for each child. Glue the white shape on the wallpaper and they have to copy the pattern with colored pencils. So the chameleon is camouflaged. You could use any animal. I did this with 2nd or 3rd grade years ago. Wallpaper books are free if you stop in or at least they used to be.
--- On Sat, 1/17/09, Lisa Robins <lisa@lisarobins.com> wrote:
> From: Lisa Robins <lisa@lisarobins.com>
> Subject: Re:[teacherartexchange] teacherartexchange digest: January 13, 2009
> To: "TeacherArtExchange Discussion Group" <teacherartexchange@lists.pub.getty.edu>
> Date: Saturday, January 17, 2009, 3:14 PM
> I am a volunteer art teacher in 2nd grade. I am looking for
> a good art
> project that has to do with camouflaging animals. My
> instinct is that one of
> you
> have done something remarkable with this at some point...I
> want to have the
> kids draw an animal then have it disappear into the
> background but don't
> know how to go about this project...
> Please give any advice or examples you may have.
> Thanks!
> Lisa robins
> lisa@lisarobins.com
>
>
>
> On 1/14/09 12:01 AM, "TeacherArtExchange Discussion
> Group digest"
> <teacherartexchange@lists.pub.getty.edu> wrote:
>
> > TEACHERARTEXCHANGE Digest for Tuesday, January 13,
> 2009.
> >
> > 1. Yaaaay!!!
> > 2. Re: Science and Art Lesson idea
> > 3. Re: Science and art - need an easy lesson plan
> >
> >
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> >
> > Subject: Yaaaay!!!
> > From: "Rebecca Burch"
> <mamallama@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:05:25 -0500
> > X-Message-Number: 1
> >
> > I finally got that shelf that I've been asking for
> for two years!!!
> >
> > This sounds like a small thing, but the shelf is going
> to give me a
> > place to put the rubbermaid bins that are the
> "stations" in my middle
> > school classes... so I can finally have the Choice
> classroom that I've
> > always wanted. I've been doing a sort of modified
> choice thing but
> > have been wanting to go full-on Choice... and
> didn't know how to pull
> > it off since all my middle school supplies basically
> had to go in a
> > closet during high school classes. I gave my middle
> school groups
> > "choice projects" where they could choose
> from a limited number of
> > options for a specific project, but there was no way
> to set up actual
> > workstations for different media.
> >
> > Since 6th grade art is world art, each station will
> represent a
> > different country, and kids will travel from station
> to station
> > learning tin-punching, weaving, puppetry, and more...
> getting their
> > passports stamped at the completion of each successful
> project.
> >
> > This will also allow me to introduce more stations and
> rotate them
> > during the term to encourage kids to try more things.
> >
> > I am really excited about this. I'm going to
> introduce the
> > full-choice class with my next group of 6th graders.
> This is going to
> > be awesome!!! :D And it's great that this change
> is happening now,
> > in January. I always get so uninspired during the
> winter blah months.
> >
> > Becky
> > Charleston WV
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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