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Students make a color pattern fish that looks like it is swimming in the water.
Materials: Hand-drawn fish outline reproducibles, 3-4 different types of fish
Wax crayons
Watercolor paint
Brushes, paint shirts etc.
Plan: Usually around the time that we do this lesson we have been discussing and making patterns in mathematics. - Review with the children what a pattern is, i.e. that in this case we can't use just one color, but that we might want to do a 2 or 3 color pattern.
- Discuss what this might look like, e.g. red-yellow-white, red-yellow-white. This gets them thinking about what type of pattern they could use.
- Also reinforce the idea that patterns are continuing, and that they don't change halfway through the pattern.
- Children color in their fish using a pattern of their choice. This is a rainbow fish, so the more colorful the better!
- When the fish is completely coloured in, they paint over it with the watercolor paint.
- Now you have a fish that looks like it swimming through water!
Comments:
Link patterning with the types of colors that could be used to make rainbow fish. (I have some children in my class who believe that all black or brown is great for coloring in.) Although I've never done this, it would be possible to have the children glue a small piece of foil or some sequins to their fish after the paint has dried to make a "rainbow fish".
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