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Pop -Out Animals


This is a new lesson I tried with some of the fourth grades. We began by drawing an animal from photos and books. We talked about observing all the details in our animals and putting them into our drawings. Our best drawing was transferred to white paper and outlined with a black permanent marker. The students were allowed to choose what art material to use to color their animals in. When they were all colored in, we cut the animals out. The second part of this project was the background environment. We started by learning five different watercolor techniques and practicing each technique. The students applied their knowledge and created an environment suitable for their animal with some of the watercolor techniques. When the backgrounds were dry, we glues on foam squares to our animals and glued them to the backgrounds. The animals appeared to pop-out from the backgrounds and looked really great!




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