It's a lovely little story about how one grumpy old cat learns to care for a young kitten. The kids thought is was adorable and from an artistic point of view - this was great for teaching neutral colors!
I pulled out crayons in black, white, brown, and grey as well as supplying paper in grey and brown (we did venture off the neutral scheme just for the background to create some contrast).
I modeled two poses, drawn from the book. One from the beginning of the story where Grumpy Cat was trying to get away from his little shadow and one from the end of the story where the two were now friends and cuddled up together. The students were allowed to chose which one they preferred.
We drew our cats, cut and glued them to the background. With the story include this project took one and a half classes (my sessions are 40 minutes each). So I had how to books on cats and some Cat Fancy Magazines on hand for afterwords as extension activities for those who finished early.
They just came out so cute! I love the facial expressions on some of them - especially the ones on Grumpy!
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