Our Organic Octopus Garden!

My second grade class learned about geometric and organic shapes in a lesson I call the Organic Octopus Garden! After talking about the differences between geometric and organic shapes we watched a short video and read a book about different types of octopus and then drew our own. After all, an octopus is a wonderful organic shape! Next we used tissue paper to dye our octopus drawings by spreading different colors of tissue on our papers and adding drops of water to cause the colors to bleed. We had so much fun learning this new way to use tissue paper and seeing how the different colors blended together to create a "tie dye" type effect. Then everyone added shading to their octopus with colored pencil and cut them out.