Hidden Safari - Monkey

 
Description: At the beginning of this activity, we created 'red light' glasses using a template. Next, we used the technique of upside-down drawing. This means that the image I was trying to replicate was upside-down while I was drawing. I enjoyed learning about and getting to try this method because it took my focus away from perfectly replicating the image that I selected. Instead, I was more focused on trying to include each line and keep the spacing even. 

We drew the image in light blue colored pencil so that it was barely visible. After the completion of our drawing, we then used warm colors to cover up the image. Using crayon, I created several layers of random shapes and designs to cover the monkey that I had drawn. Even though the image was covered up by the shapes and designs, the glasses that we made helped us to see the image that we drew. To wrap up this project, we included three clues for our peers to guess what our animal was and mounted it on a background. 

Extension: One thing that I think would be a fun integration activity to do for math is a practice problem scavenger hunt. You could do this activity again but instead of drawing an image, have math equations for your students to solve written in blue pencil. Then your students could go around with their glasses and have to find each problem and solve it correctly. This could also be done as a 'letter hunt' for lower elementary students. They would have so much fun getting to search to find each of the letters!