Bluefin Tuna

During the month of April students learned about endangered animals. The 6 year old students learned about the blue fin tuna and how over fishing is hurting so many marine animals and destroying the ecosystem in the ocean. 

For this project students worked with oil pastels, watercolors, acrylic and aluminium foil. First, students got a paper that they drew lines on with oil pastels. Once they finished drawing the lines, they painted over the lines with watercolor. Students learned how watercolor and oil pastels interact. While they waited for the watercolor paper to dry they painted another piece of paper blue with acrylic paint. 

The next class, after all the papers had dried, students drew a fish shape and started cutting scale like pieces from the paper with oil pastels and from the aluminium. They had to glue them carefully to mimic the scales on a fish. Once they finished gluing the scales students drew waves and other fish around their fish.