Materials:

• Colored paper (or you can color white paper using crayons, markers, or paint)
• Scissors
• Glue (we recommend glue sticks but any glue will work)

Instructions:

• Use a dark sheet of paper for the background.
• Cut out crazy shapes to create your self portrait. You may decide to draw shapes with pencil first or cut out your shapes freestyle.
• Think about the shapes of certain facial features before you cut. The more abstract the better!
• Lay your shapes on your paper to form your self portrait how you like!
• You can experiment with frontal (from the front) and profile (from the side) perspectives.
• Next glue your shapes on the paper. Have fun layering colored shapes on top of each other.
• “Check out the new YOU!”

Below is an example by my friend Heather Wilson. She did her whole family 😊 !

Activity by Rachel Jong, Hardy Site