Review warm and cool colors.
Apply color sense to an art project.
Lion and penguin worksheets
Tissue paper
Glue, scissors
Teacher Note
Be sure to do this activity yourself before doing the activity with your children, so that you have a sample of each animal for the children to view.
Ask: On which continent would you find a lion? Because most of Africa is close to the equator, would the climate there be warm or cold? On which continent would you find a penguin? Antarctica is at the South Pole and very far away from the equator. Is the climate warm or cold on the continent of Antarctica?
Tell the students they are going to use tissue paper in warm and cool colors to decorate pictures of lions and penguins. If you get a lion you will decorate with tissue paper in warm colors. Ask: Can someone name a warm color? (red, yellow, or orange) If you get a penguin you will decorate with tissue paper in cool colors. Ask: Can someone name a cool color? (blue, green, and purple)
Hand out the materials. Tell the children they are going to glue small squares of tissue paper within the outline in the center of the animal. Have the children start by tearing the tissue paper (either warm colors or cool colors). Next, have them spread glue on the paper inside the outline in the center of the picture and place their pieces of tissue paper on the glue to create a stained glass effect.