How can I use this resource?

With this resource, you can make beautiful safari pictures that show the beauty of the African savanna and the phenomenon of warm colors. It's a fun and educational activity for kids who love painting and animals. You can use this resource to decorate your classroom with colorful and realistic scenes of the savanna. Each picture is unique and different from the others, as each student can choose their own animals, trees, and colors. You can also use this resource to learn about the Savanna Ecosystem and the phenomenon of twilight colors.

What does this resource contain?

This resource contains templates and instructions for making safari pictures with warm colors. It includes 16 different African animal and tree silhouettes in two sizes that you can cut out and glue on your paintings. You can choose from giraffe, elephant, zebra, lion, leopard, cheetah, rhino, gazelle, buffalo, ostrich, wildebeest, warthog, and acacia. The resource also provides you with some tips on how to mix and apply warm watercolors to create the twilight effect.

About Working with Warm Colors

Through the process of sight, colors can be transformed into sensations or feelings. Warm colors are color tones ranging from yellow to orange to red, including brown. Warm colors are reminiscent of warm sunlight and heat, which invokes a pleasant, warm feeling within the viewer. You can experience the effect of warm colors very well in nature during dawn and dusk. The optical phenomenon of twilight colors is always fascinating. Twilight is the term used to describe the transition between day and night at the beginning or the end of the day. Dawn ends with the appearance of the upper edge of the sun above the horizon. Vice versa, dusk begins with the disappearance of the upper edge of the sun below the horizon. Therefore, the period of time when the sun rises or goes down is still considered daytime and not twilight. During twilight, you can no longer see the sun, just the spectrum of its warm colors.

Since the sun sets vertically at the equator, twilight only lasts 20 minutes. The warm colors of the setting sun can also be experienced very intensely at the equator. The extremely warm colors of the sky can then make plants and animals appear as two-dimensional black silhouettes. 

Download this resource today and start painting your own safari pictures!