Hidden Safari

This activity that we did was called the, "Hidden Safari". For this activity we tried a different style of drawing; upside drawing. The point to drawing upside down was to get us to focus on the indidivual aspects of drawing instead of looking at it as a whole. In this activity we had to draw an animal of our choice upside down. We had to drawn our animal in a light blue, because another learning aspect of this lesson was learnig about warm and cool colors(blues, greens, and violets). Once we had drawn our upside down animals in light blue we were able to turn them right side up. After this we had to draw warm colors(yellows, reds, and oranges) to drawn patterns on top of our animals. We had to draw enought patterns so that our animals were completely hidden. We framed these drawings and then put them aside for awhile. The next thing we did in this activity was make ruby red glasses. These glasses were made out of red cellophane for the lens and construction paper for the frames. We were then told to put them on and look at our drawings. When we put on our ruby red glasses we were then able to see our light blue animals that had been covered up with warm colors patterns before. We were only able to see the light blue when we put on our glasses because since the glasses were red the were cancelling out the warm colors on the pictures and so that in return made the light blue(cool color) stand out.

For my activity I drew a elephant and had flowers, polka dots and swirled lines as my patterns. I think this is a great activity to do with younger grades, because they love animals and would think it was magic to put on those glasses and see a hidden picture.

An extension activity I would do for this project would be to involve this with math. If the students were learning about different formulas you could have the answers to them be hidden and they could only put on the glasses to see the correct answers once they had completed all the steps of that formula. I think this activity could add some fun and art to many subjects.