Saw this activity in Growing Up Wild and thought it looked like a fun one. We have learned about camouflage before with an outdoor activity. I wish I would have known about this craft back then because they would be great to do together (we ran out of time today so we didn't get the outdoor activity done again either).
I started with some animal pictures and let Sam pick out the one she wanted to use. She then got to cut it out of the page.
Then we talked about what colors she saw in the animal and what colors would need to be around the animal if it wanted to hide.
After that we simply got crafting!
She just ripped the paper into pieces and glued them down around the bird to camouflage the bird!
Super simple craft and if we had more animal pictures (who knew it was so hard to find animals pictures in magazines?) she would have had fun making more of these.
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The Nitty Gritty!
Check the Must See Children's Books page on the sidebar for a few good books on camouflage.
I think a great environmental education lesson in a preschool classroom would consist of a storytime on camouflage, the craft and then the outdoor camouflage activity that I linked to up above. Sounds like fun to me!!
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