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Animal Masquerade

Animal Masquerade

Design a mask for a classroom masquerade! Students can choose an animal and display their knowledge of its attributes in a creative way.

Lesson Plan

Supplies Needed

Gather all the supplies needed to bring your craft ideas to life! From paints and markers to glue and scissors, our crafts section has everything to spark creativity and make every project truly special.

  • Sticks

Steps

  • Step 1

    Invite students to form pairs or small groups and talk about animals they like. Why do they like it? Does it have fur? Scales? Feathers? What climate does it live in?

  • Step 2

    Have students cut eye, nose, and mouth holes in heavy paper. Glue a stick to the back of it. Next ask them to draw the animal of their choice on a piece of construction paper. Remind them to make it larger than their head so it will cover completely. Have them add details to the image to make the animal look as realistic as possible using markers or paint or both. When it's done and dry have them place it on the mask cut-out and then cut matching holes in the animal, then glue it in place.

  • Step 3

    Have a masquerade parade!

Standards

SCI: Convey designs through sketches, detailed drawings, or physical models to communicate ideas and solutions.

SCI: Design pictorial or graphic representations/models that are useful in communicating ideas.

Adaptations

Ask students to look at an image of the "comedy/tragedy" masks that have come to represent the performing arts. What is its origin? Who is depicted?

Have students investigate "Noh," a major form of Japanese dance-drama and the oldest major art form that is still being performed today.