African Safari Art

We have been learning a lot about Africa over the past few weeks. For Art last week, we created African Safari silhouettes. The step by step instructions and what you need are outlined below.

Equipment:

A4 white sheet
A3 white sheet
Black sheet (we used A4)
Oil pastels (or chalk pastels)
Pencil
Scissors
Crayons/Colouring pencils for border
Pritt Stick

Instructions: 

1. First, we began by getting an A3 and A4 white page. The children drew a border around the A4 page onto the A3 page.

2. Next the children chose an animal skin to decorate their border (giraffe, tiger, cheetah etc.) on the A3 page.

3. Using the A4 sheet, the children then began to do the background sky for the silhouette using oil pastels. (Chalk pastels also blend really well). We used yellows, oranges, reds and some children used white and black to lighten or darken areas.

4. Then using the black paper the children drew outlines of African safari animals and trees. They cut these out and stuck them onto the sky background.
Then  we stuck this onto the A3 page.

Alternatives:

You could use just one page rather than 3 separate ones and paint the silhouette using black paint.