Dear Studio Red,

Today we invite you to continue our camouflage research! What does camouflage mean? Do you remember when you first heard this word? Today we will continue to think about animals and how they camouflage!

Love, Lauri and Emily

Last week some of you visited the DO & DRAW from Wednesday to explore camouflage with your lovey. If you have not already done so, visit our invitation and send us photos when you are done! Click anywhere on this text to open the page.

Below we have shared the photos Luca and Miles sent us of their work. Can you spot their lovies?

Miles' lovey looks like a bear.

FIND BEAR!

Luca and Puppy Duppy

FIND PUPPY DUPPY!

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How do animals camouflage themselves?

Visit this site to learn more about the different ways animals use camouflage to mask their location, identity and movement. You will learn what scientists call these different kinds of camouflage. We hope you have fun finding the animals hidden in plain sight!

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How will you fill your page with a pattern?

Is there an animal you know that uses disruptive coloration to hide? Sometimes the spots, stripes, and shapes we see on animals appear again and again across their bodies. We call these patterns!

We have been thinking a lot about patterns in Studio Red. We have talked about a pattern as something that repeats. Do you remember our handwashing pattern?

Towel Sink – Florida Sink – Dish Sink – Towel Sink – Florida Sink – Dish Sink . . .

We also created patterns with lines, letters and shapes when we printed with cardboard and paint! We remember many hearts and ice cream cones that repeated again and again!

We organized these patterns in a line that could go on forever. The patterns that animals use to camouflage are different. They do not follow a single line, nor go in one direction. Instead, their patterns cover the surface of their bodies in all directions! Today we invite you to examine one of these patterns closely and then draw the lines, shapes, and colors you see.

leopard

owl butterfly

sea turtle

giraffe

map puffer fish

zebra

diamond back rattle snake

cheetah

giraffe

boa constrictor

chameleon

eastern screech owl

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A note to parents: If your child would benefit from support, break down the process into steps.

Step 1: Look through our collection of animal patterns above and find a few that you would like to investigate more. You may also choose to search for a different animal photograph on the computer.

Step 2: Choose one that will be a just right challenge for you to draw, not too easy and not too tricky.

Step 3: Spend some time just looking at this pattern. What do you notice? What lines to do see? How are the shapes organized? What do you notice about the colors?

Step 4: Decide how big or small you will draw the parts. This is called the scale. Can you picture in your brain how the pattern will cover the whole paper? Drawing the parts bigger can help you show more detail. You may also want to choose a piece of paper that is a do-able size.

Step 5: Once you have decided on the scale of your pattern, choose a place on your paper to begin drawing. Will you begin with the outlines? Or perhaps you will choose to use color from the start.

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