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SIXTH GRADE - LESSON PLAN 5

Tropical Feathered Friends

Students will learn about endangered birds and create a picture that incorporates their environment utilizing bright, vivid colors and create effects using contrasting colors.

Materials and equipment:

• 8" x 10.5" art paper provided by Art to Remember • Markers or oil pastels

Resource materials:

• Books about tropical and exotic birds and the rainforest, photography books, National Geographic.

Step 1: Draw lightly in pencil your exotic bird or birds in a tropical environment surrounded by colorful flowers, plants and trees. Draw your bird large so that it is the focal point or center of interest.

Step 2: Color your picture using yummy, lush, exotic colors such as bright orange, lemon yellow, hot pink, lime green and peacock blue. Contrast light against dark for emphasis.

Step 3: Outline in black markers for emphasis.

Step 4: Print child’s name legibly at least an inch from the edge of the paper so the name will not be lost in printing.

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