Friday, June 21, 2013

I feel a Foot!

This is a children's book based on a folk tale, "The blind Man and the Elephant".  It has beautiful illustrations.  All the animals have these fun vibrant colors and patterns.  I saw a perfect opportunity to use some of the patterns books that I have had for years.  So that is what we did.  The kids first picked out a pattern color sheet.  I told them to color however they wanted, but they needed to have a color palette of at least 5.  Then they picked out one of the following characters from the book; turtle, octopus, bat, bird, goat, or elephant. The turtle and the bat were the most popular of the animals to make. After they colored the sheet, they cut out the animal.  Parts of the animals were also made out of construction paper.  Then oil pastels were used to finish the animals before gluing down to the black background paper.












4 comments:

  1. What a great idea! The pieces came out really nice! :)

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    1. Thanks Mrs. C, they were fun. A little rushed, it was our last project, so it got a little hectic getting them all done, lol!

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  2. These are really pretty. What grade did you do them with?

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    1. Thank you! :) I did these with my 4th and 5th graders, it took 3, 50 minute art days to complete.

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