Create Camo Critters!

For this project you will be colouring an animal of your choice with a pattern to help it camouflage with a background!

Supplies:

• paper
• critter printout or a critter outline you drew yourself
• scissors
• glue
• paint or something to colour with

Step 1: Choose a Critter

For this step, you can choose one of the printable critter outlines provided in this post or draw your own critter outline!

Step 2: Paint Your Critter!

Choose a pattern and paint your critter with the pattern. You can choose a colourful, fun pattern or a more realistic pattern. For my project, I looked up the colouring of a copperhead snake and used that as an inspiration. This is a very fun project to practice painting skills on but it can also be done with colouring supplies or other creative methods of pattern making (collage, printing, etc). Since you will be cutting your critter out later, you don’t need to worry about painting outside of the lines.

Step 3: Create a Background

Next, you will paint the same pattern you used on your critter on a full sheet of paper. This will be the background that your critter will blend into!

Step 4: Camouflage Your Critter!

Cut your critter out and position it on your background however you like. Glue the critter in place and show off your awesome camouflage art project!