For this fun activity, we first learned about artist Sally Maxwell and illustrator/author Eric Carle. We discussed the book The Mixed-Up Chameleon, but unfortunately we didn’t get to read it. We discussed scratch art and then got to create our own scratch-art paper as well as practice on premade scratch art paper.
Step 1: First we created our own scratch art paper, doing this first allowed for time for to dry while we practiced our drawing. We created our own paper by first coloring all the colors of the rainbow with oil pastels onto a piece of paper. After our paper was completely covered, with no white spots showing, we used black tempera paint that was mixed with dish soap to paint over top of the rainbow until no colors were showing through.
Step 2: The teachers gave us printed out stencils of a chameleon so that we could trace that chameleon on a piece of paper and practice our design on there. After we practiced our designed chameleon on the plain piece of paper, we placed the design we created on top of the premade scratch art paper, and traced it. This created simple, faint lines to appear on the scratch art paper.
Step 3: Use the outline created to deepen the marks and create your colorful chameleon on the premade scratch art paper.
Step 4: Once the homemade scratch art paper is finished drying, repeat steps two and three on the homemade scratch art paper as well. This should reveal your colorful, mixed up chameleon! If the paint is not mixed correctly, and too much soap is added to the paint, the paint will chip in large chunks rather than allowing you to scratch specific lines. This is what happened with mine so I only included a picture of my premade paper chameleon.
Well discussing animals in their adaptations in science class, you could re-create this activity when talking about camouflage. Allow the students to create a background of their choice, turn this background into homemade scratch art, and then scratch out a Chamaeleon or whatever animal they’re choosing. Then they can give some hints on a note card as to what the background is that their animals camouflage in, and how their animal can camouflage there. For example, Drawing a savanna and scratching out a lion. Lions can camouflage in tall, dry Savannah grass due to the color of their fur. Aligned with standard 3-LS4-2 or 3.
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