First grade artists started off the year reading one of my favorite books-
"My Head is Full of Colors", by Catherine Friend.
This book is newly back in print. It is a great springboard for this project. The main character, Maria, wakes up one morning to find her hair full of colors. As the story goes on all sorts of interesting things show up on her head! In the end, she realizes all those things are really inside her head and they are what make her special and unique. We began by making a self portrait on a piece of paper folded so that the paper opens right down the middle of the face...a good time to remind them of symmetry! After the portrait is finished, they fill the inside with a collage of words and pictures they cut from magazines, thus telling the viewer about them. We finish the lesson doing a gallery walk and exploring each others work and writing down one thing they learn about each of their classmates. It is a funway to get to know each other at the beginning of the school year.
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