Lizards in the Jungle

These paper sculpture lizards were a favorite for 3rd grade. I feel like 3rd grade is getting all of the awesome projects this year? Good for them. ^_^

We looked at many of Henri Rousseau's jungle artworks and discussed what kind of animals live in the jungle. Then we viewed many images of different lizards. I created an outline for them printed on green construction paper to get them started. This saved us some time on drawing so that we could focus on the paper sculpture part of the project. If you want them to draw the lizards themselves, Art for Kids Hub has a fantastic lizard drawing video they could follow here. 

After we cut them out, we folded them down the center to make them pop up. We created a paper leaf, added some oil pastel details, and attached the lizard. 

Some kids asked if we were going to put googly eyes on them, so I made sure we had plenty to add. :D

In the Art room: Jungle

Here are some pictures from our Jungle room transformation for our study of Henri Rousseau.

Streamers across the room with paper leaves stapled on. Our plants that have been growing in the windows all year came over to the tables. 

Beret and French flag our for his home country.

More streamers for vines, paper flowers, and a video of jungle images and sounds that you can find here. 

Posters of Rousseau's work, giant snake from the library. 

A cut-up Dollar Tree table cloth for the door and windows. The librarians already had 3 giant trees that they let me borrow (thanks). Love doing these room transformations. ^_^