Project Title: Pop-up Animal Puppet
Medium: Watercolor Paper, Watercolor Pencils, skewers, tape
Grade Theme: Animals
Overview: Students will make operational animals puppets drawn onto folded watercolor paper.  
Art Skills: drawing, brushwork, cutting
Process: Starting with the head and mouth, they will draw the whole animal with its texture and patterned surface.  They will draw the inside of the mouth and then blend with brushes and water, then cut them out.  Art teachers will tape on the skewers and we will all test our puppeteering skills.
Materials: watercolor paper, watercolor pencils, brushes
Tools Provided by Classroom: scissors, pencils
Vocabulary: Surface, texture, puppets
Additional Resource: Link to Art History and Connection
Multiple Subject Integration: Environmental Science, anatomy, zoology, engineering

*Please note that samples were made by teaching artists.  Students will be encouraged to make their own versions of this project. Please DO NOT show students these samples in advance of the art lesson.

Description Summary: Today students had a special art lesson where they drew, painted and made animal puppets made from folded paper and sticks.