3rd grade self portraits

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.

The paper portrait is fun and easy way to create portraits for your students.This project for 3rd or 4th grade usually takes three, 45-minute class periods.

Mrs. Kearly's class Mrs. Mrs. Savoie's 5th grade class How to Begin... Divide paper into 6 by folding... Draw face lightly to below p...

Invitation by Shel Silverstein and 2-1 from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo .

This easy step-by-step art lesson teaches your kids how to draw a self portrait. Stop by for a free tutorial or watch the video lesson.

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…

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Fourth graders made these neat Heather Galler self-portraits. We learned about Etsy, a website were artists can sell their artwork and keep a better percentage of the profits than selling some of the same art in an art gallery. Buying art on Etsy is a great way to support artists directly. Here is Heather Galler's popular Etsy page! We talked about the characteristics and subject matter that Galler uses. Here is some of her art: In order to create our own Galler style self-portraits, we…