In this project, the objective was to create art inspired by Eric Carle's style of storybook illustration. We first made patterns on thick pieces of paper using tempera paint. Next, we created a design illustrating part of a story on 12" x 16" paper. My story was about a giraffe and a meercat that became best of friends despite their different sizes. Then, we traced those shapes onto the pattern paper and cut out them out. Finally, we pasted these shapes onto 12" x 16" construction paper and wrote some text that correlated with the illustration.

An extension project that a teacher could do following this could be to instruct students to create a whole storybook using whatever style and materials they want to. They would create the story and the illustrations. We could also go more into the history and concepts behind storybook illustration to give them inspiration.