Elementary self portraits

Fifth Grade Symbolically-Colored Self-Portraits – Art With Ms. Bruce

Abstract self portraits inspired by @tadcarpenter's cover art for Wonder. Fifth graders drew their face and hair. Traced with bold lines and colored the hair in like a silhouette. They spent two Class days exploring three different paint materials/techniques, and creating word lists and practice word clouds They explored @kwikstixpaint, #jackricheson neon tempera cakes, and wet-on-wet liquid watercolors with salt. They selected their own technique and design and painted their faces and ears…

Student self-portraits using watercolor are a great first week of school activity. It's also a fun project to repeat at the end of the school year. Read all about how to use this fun idea in the classroom.

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Last week, I was inspired by the great Cassie Stephens yet again! Her 4th graders have been creating some Fauvist style self-portraits, and I thought our 5th graders would be great at it to! Here's the link to her original post on the topic! In the Art Room: 4th Grade Fauves Here's how we made ours. Materials: Sargent chalk Sta-Flo liquid starch Crayola Oil pastels Sax liquid watercolors Day 1: Show them some kid friendly examples of Fauvist art. Then, I demonstrated how to draw an easy…

A Self-Portrait Lesson to Encourage Self-Awareness Connections % %

Since our likes and dislikes, personalities, hobbies, and skills all contribute to making us interesting and unique, why not include those in a self-portrait, too?

Lindsay Smith on Instagram: "✨Silhouette Self Portraits✨ Every year on the first day of school we do school interviews and write down favorite things all about them. I saw this idea on Pinterest and thought it would be way more fun to turn our interviews into an art project! I love how they turned out! 😍 HOW TO: 🔦Tape a large piece of white paper to the wall and have your child sit next to it. Hold or set up a flash light (bigger one than mine will work better 😆) on the other side of…