Students designed an organic home for the animal they were researching. These were no ordinary homes! Students brainstormed what the outside would look like by thinking about their animal, habitat, food, enemies... The home also needed to contain things their animal might like, for instance, maybe a monkey would like a painting of a banana on the wall or maybe it has a couch designed like a banana! The animal was not to appear anywhere in the artwork. We would guess what animal lived there through clues. Students were to make use of value and blending with color pencils when coloring the final project. Students loved the project, but it dragged on a little too long just like my post!
Lesson aligned with ELA Common Core unit "Animals are Characters, Too"