Safari Hidden Picture Project

Glasses I made out of red film
and
construction paper.
Used for seeing the Hidden Picture

Hidden Picture
You can't see it until you put the Red glasses on!   I will give you three hints:
1.  It is an animal
2.  He resembles a horse
3.  He has a mane


Answer:  A zebra
When I drew him, I was looking at an upside picture of a zebra so I stared to drawing him upside down!  Believe it or not, it is easier to draw an animal upside down than right side up.

I learned how to draw an animal (my hidden picture) by drawing him/her upside down! It was absolutely amazing to be able to draw with such ease! I had never experienced drawing a figure, or picture in this case, upside down. Once my animal had been drawn with light strokes with a light blue colored pencil, we made a pattern to cover the entire page. Then with the use of the glasses we made out of construction paper and red film, I was able to see my animal as well as all of my classmates animals. We had 3 clues on a card at the bottom of each picture to help figure out what the animal was, before looking with our glasses to see what it was.

Set back:  the only problem I had was that the cpnstruction paper matte frame looked wider on one side.

This project can be used in a Life Science lesson to start the students out. Then each student can do more research on their animal to include: habitat, life span, endangered or extinct, it could be part of a presentation that the students will do once they get more facts. This project could also be done after a field trip to the zoo to help familiarize the students even more with the animals they saw.