Bunny Art

Our most recent project in class was a first grade project dealing with complimentary colors.  My group was assigned red and green.  Red is considered a warm color and green a cool color.  We took a piece of white drawing paper and drew thick and thin horizontal lines using red and then drew vertical lines using green.  After the paper dried, we traced out pre-cut patterns onto our "plaid paper" that would soon be glued together to form a bunny! 

An extension activity would be writing a story about their favorite animal.  Once the story is finished, they could use the "plaid paper" idea and make the animal they wrote about in their story.