Warm and Cool Color Collages

This project was meant as a review for the warm and cool color families that first grade had been working on.  It also combined geometric and organic shapes with collage to make these adorable underwater pictures. 

We read the book, "Tickly Octopus" by Ruth Galloway.  It was a cute story involving some nice character development about finding out all the things you can be good at. 

After the book, we got down to the nitty-gritty of octopus making.  We used a circle for the main part of the head/body and then wiggly lines that we doubled for the eight tentacles.  It was so cute to hear a whole class counting to make sure they'd done eight arms!

I reviewed the various characters in the book with the class and modeled how to create them. 
After that the details were up to them.  This took two class sessions of 40 minutes each for them to complete.

In the book, the octopus was chased by an eel.  That is a large blue eel with very unfortunate placement.