K/1s Draw, Paint and Stuff African Animals

Each K/1 student is studying a particular African animal. In art they draw their animal working from a photograph, and then paint it with watercolors. Once this is completed, they again draw their animal, but this time on very large

Painting a lion

A giraffe is carefully painted

brown craft paper. This animal image is painted, duplicated and then stuffed with newspaper and sewn together with yarn. They will find their places in the classroom celebration of African work at the end of the school year.

Painting the big cobra

Cutting out the meerkat

Adding spots

Painting the second side for the gorilla

Sewing an elephant

Sewing the leopard

Part of the classroom display with paintings and animals

The zebra up close

Animals outside the African hut

AHut with occupants

The hyena finished

The beginnings of the hyena