

Give the cut-out chameleons to one half of the children in the class to hide.Have the children trace around the template and cut out chameleons of every color. A Camouflaged Chameleon GameĬonstruction paper in all colors of the rainbow including black and white And sometimes while searching for our identities, we meet friends along the way. This story written by the famous children’s author, Leo Lionni, helps children to understand that we are all different and yet in some ways we are all the same. They then traveled from place to place and although they would change colors, they did it together making the situation not so bad. The other chameleon tells him thatobtaining one color is not possible, but offers to become his friend. He experimented by going from place to place, but the color never remained the same.įinally in the spring, the chameleon meets another one of his species and told him why he was sad. So, he decides to sit on a green leaf and became green, however, when the fall came and the leaves changed colors, so did the chameleon. He thought if he stayed in the same place forever he would achieve a color.

Chameleons change color based on their surroundings and this chameleon in the story is confused why he doesn’t have a specific color. All the other animals had colors the pigs were pink, the elephants were gray, the parrots were green, and so on. There once was a sad and lonely chameleon that had no color of his own.
