All You Need is Paper (and a little love) ESL/EFL activities

 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.

 My third-grade class has started studying animals and their habitats. After trying to find some animals which use their habitats to camouflage and hide, they made colorful backgrounds as habitats and chameleons in the same colors to show how chameleons can use their habitats to protect themselves. I've shared this idea here before. This time we glued the chameleons on small paper rings so they would stick out of the background a little and then glued everything to black paper to make the colors pop out. Students also practiced asking and answering each other: where is it? Here it is.

 My third grade class was studying how animals hide in nature to protect themselves. We all drew a colorful chameleon on a a colorful background. Students each shared their chameleons with the class and were able to practice vocabulary words like hide and camouflage. We also talked about which other animals are great camouflagers such as katydids and owls. Can you think of more?