Zebras – With a Twist

As a final wrap up to our African Cultural study, my third graders created these sweet little zebras.

We talked about why zebras are so beautifully marked (so predators can’t focus on an individual zebra to hunt in the herd) and looked at zebra patterns.  We drew our zebras on 9×12 tagboard, breaking them down into shapes – rounded rectangle body, triangle head – and traced around large tongue depressors for the legs.

Third Grade Zebra

The room was absolutely quiet as they filled in their black zebra patterns!  We added color with bright highlighter markers, cut them out, and fringed bright tag for the mane and tail.

Last step – printing a “zebra” border with cardboard dipped in tempera.  Aren’t they fun?!

Third Grade Zebra-Printing

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