Snow Bunnies

             

This project was inspired by the book:

This is a great way to sneak some science into your art projects.  The book features the different ways that animals deal with winter.  Some like the rabbit change color for camouflage, others migrate, and some hibernate.  It was quite impressive to see how much about animals my kindergarteners already knew and could add other details about the animals in the book or others that weren't!

This is a two part project - Part one was completed in winter.  Part two we are about to start now that it is spring.  

For our Winter Snow Bunnies we painted with tempera paint on sky blue paper using simple shapes to make the rabbit bodies.  The second day once the paint was dry we went back with oil crayons and added the faces, snowflakes and the snow covered ground.  

                  

We will be repeating the lesson with brown paint to make a spring version of our bunny.  This will be an interesting before and after to see the progress that they have made.  Spring Bunnies will be posted soon!