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 Still on the topic of camouflage and hiding in habitats, students used paint to create a colorful and then brownish background for their bugs and small animals to hide in. We first placed different colors of paint on a cardboard paper, spread the paint out with popsicle sticks (I think that was the best part), waited for the paint to dry, and then drew the animals with a black pencil. We glued some green paper to resemble the forest floor at the bottom. When they were done, they wrote about which animals they added to their forest. I wanted them to practice the plural there are, so they drew 2 of each animal. They glued their text to the back onto a paper handle, so they could easily take their work home and hang it up somewhere. We all loved the final result, and it was one more way for them to creatively practice the content and vocabulary from the story we read in class.

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