Studio Red: daily do & draw 4/8

Dear Studio Red,

Today we invite you to continue our camouflage research!  What does camouflage mean?  Do you remember when you first heard this word?  Today we will continue to think about animals and how they camouflage!

Love, Lauri and Emily

daily do & draw

DO

How do animals camouflage themselves?

Visit this site to learn more about the different ways animals use camouflage to mask their location, identity and movement.  You will learn what scientists call these different kinds of camouflage.  We hope you have fun finding the animals hidden in plain sight!

DRAW

How will you fill your page with a pattern?

Is there an animal you know that uses disruptive coloration to hide?  Sometimes the spots, stripes, and shapes we see on animals appear again and again across their bodies.  We call these patterns!  

We have been thinking a lot about patterns in Studio Red.  We have talked about a pattern as something that repeats.  Do you remember our handwashing pattern?  

 

Towel Sink  –  Florida Sink  –  Dish Sink  –  Towel Sink  –  Florida Sink  –  Dish Sink . . .

 

We also created patterns with lines, letters and shapes when we printed with cardboard and paint!  We remember many hearts and ice cream cones that repeated again and again!

We organized these patterns in a line that could go on forever.  The patterns that animals use to camouflage are different.  They do not follow a single line, nor go in one direction.  Instead, their patterns  cover the surface of their bodies in all directions!  Today we invite you to examine one of these patterns closely and then draw the lines, shapes, and colors you see.

leopard
owl butterfly
sea turtle
giraffe
map puffer fish
zebra
diamond back rattle snake
cheetah
giraffe
boa constrictor
chameleon
eastern screech owl
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A note to parents: If your child would benefit from support, break down the process into steps.

Step 1: Look through our collection of animal patterns above and find a few that you would like to investigate more.  You may also choose to search for a different animal photograph on the computer.

Step 2: Choose one that will be a just right challenge for you to draw, not too easy and not too tricky.

Step 3: Spend some time just looking at this pattern.  What do you notice?  What lines to do see? How are the shapes organized?  What do you notice about the colors?

Step 4: Decide how big or small you will draw the parts.  This is called the scale.  Can you picture in your brain how the pattern will cover the whole paper?  Drawing the parts bigger can help you show more detail.  You may also want to choose a piece of paper that is a do-able size.

Step 5: Once you have decided on the scale of your pattern, choose a place on your paper to begin drawing.  Will you begin with the outlines? Or perhaps you will choose to use color from the start.

Step 6: Fill your entire paper!