By using crayon, we created a hot and cold animal puzzle.  Each students received a puzzle piece to use.  First students were given their color scheme, hot or cold colors, and then they were instructed to pick a animal. Examples of 4 animals were given and students were instructed to only use one of their colors, ie. yellow only on the duck.  Also, texture was to be used on the inside of their animal, it; it could either be drawn in or one could use real texture to color in their animal.  Once their  animal was complete students received at random another art element to fill the background of their puzzle piece.  Mine was lines.  I used many different types of lines to fill in the background.  Other elements used were pattern, geometric shapes, and organic shapes.

Extension Project: An extension of this could be done when warm and cold blooded animals are being discussed in science.  Most students stuck to animals that related to their color scheme, ie fish and frogs for cold and ducks and foxes for hot.  This could be done by having all students sticking to that criteria, only warm blooded animals for the hot or warm colored puzzle and only cold blooded animals for the cold color puzzle.  This would help student remember what animal belongs where and it also gets them to use their imagination.

This is a picture of the bulletin board created after the puzzle pieces were put together.