Hoppy For Plaid!

     During this project we focused on complimentary colors and lines. We first practice painting vertical and horizontal lines. Then we talked all about plaid and the lines that it is made up of. We read a great book that talked about all the places we could find plaid in our every day lives. Proceeding the book we used the light color (red in my case) and painted horizontal lines of all sizes on it. Then we used the other color(green) and painted vertical lines of all sizes once the red was dry. After the paint was completely dry we received a pattern of a bunny and traced in onto the back side of the paper. We then cut it out and glued the pieces onto a colored background. Then we added details such as the cotton ball tail, and the face drawn on with black marker.
    An extension activity we could do with this is incorporate this into language arts by having the students write a poem or a story about their bunny and how they got the "plaid" disease. Writing a poem would be for the younger students and the story would be for the older students. Once the poem or story is done they students could again use the horizontal and vertical lines to make a plaid background for the students to mount their language arts assignment on.