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This is one of our favorite Eric Carle books, but honestly they’re all so fun to read! I saw this paper plate color-changing chameleon craft and I knew we had to recreate it.
You need two paper plates, a paper fastener, paint, and a print out of a chameleon to trace. I simply searched for and found a basic chameleon coloring page and made it smaller when I printed it.
I had Zeke paint the paper plate (he actually painted two because he was enjoying it so much) with several different colors. He went all out and painted the entire plate – no white space left!
While he was painting, I was tracing the chameleon onto another paper plate. Then I cut the chameleon shape out using scissors. It would probably have been easier to use an Exacto knife, but I didn’t have one. This was the hardest part of this activity, and it’s not perfect! I left a little place to glue a googly eye on the chameleon!
We waited until the next morning to attach the white paper plate with the cut-out chameleon onto the painted paper plate. Then Zeke glued on a googly eye. When we spin the top plate around, the chameleon changes colors!
This was a fun craft to do and a great go-along for the book The Mixed Up Chameleon.
Check out the other posts in this series!
Birds and Feather Painting
A Tree is Nice and Cork Tree Painting
