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Mrs. Brown's Found Object Sculpture challenge

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iMotion HD - Time-lapse and Stop-motion app for iPhone / iPad

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How To Draw Flamemallow From YouTube Kids App

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum

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#MetKids is a digital feature made for, with, and by kids.

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Free Coloring sheets of Dinosaurs in their collection. My favorite place to visit when I was a kid.

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Torosaurus
The bronze statue of Torosaurus latus outside the Peabody Museum is the first full-scale reconstruction of this dinosaur. Because only parts of its skull and skeleton have ever been found, the sculpture is based on extinct and living Torosaurus relatives such as hadrosaurs, birds, alligators, turtles, and even mammals.

Brontosaurus Restoration
This restoration illustrates what we have learned about Brontosaurus since the Museum's specimen was first displayed in 1931-different front feet and head, a longer neck, and a longer tail that was held upright. The Peabody's beloved Brontosaurus will be remounted for the Museum's renovation to reflect current scientific knowledge.

The Dodo
The Dodo was a large flightless relative of the pigeon that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. Because it was extinct by 1681 no one today really knows exactly what it looked like. The Museum's full-size model is based on fossil bones and historical drawings and descriptions.

The Woolly Mammoth
Rudolph Zallinger's The Age of Mammals mural in the Museum's Hall of Mammalian Evolution shows this woolly mammoth in the Pleistocene of western North America. Known for its impressive long curving tusks, the woolly mammoth has chewing teeth that show it is closely related to the modern elephant.

Poison Dart Frogs
Poison dart frog skin is toxic because of their diet of ants, beetles, and termites in the rainforests of Central and South America. Their bright blue, green, red, and black markings warn predators that the frogs taste bad. The Peabody's Discovery Room frogs are not poisonous because they are fed only fruit flies and crickets.

The Age of Reptiles Mural
Rudolph Zallinger's The Age of Reptiles is a timeline that illustrates the evolution of plants and animals across 300 million years of Earth's history. This detail from the Cretaceous Period, the most recent geological section, shows Tyrannosaurus rex, the largest meat-eating animal that has ever lived in North America.

Crystals
These three specimens are from the Peabody's Mineralogy collection, begun around 1802. At the bottom is a geode from Arizona with white quartz inside and blue-green chrysocolla outside. The spiky calcite crystal, from Australia, is milky white. The third specimen is a microcline from Colorado with light green rectangular crystals.

Fossil Fragments Excavation
This scene shows the excavation of a 1.5 million-year-old fossilized lower jaw of Paranthropus, an ancestor of modern humans that lived in Africa. Delicate fossils like this are dug with dental tools and brushes rather than picks and shovels. The specimen label identifies BPRP as the location and KNM as the Kenyan National Museum.

The Giant Squid
Visitors to the Peabody Museum's lobby are greeted by a 37-foot (11-meter) suspended life-size fiberglass, foam, and steel model of Architeuthis dux. The giant squid is the largest living invertebrate. It has two long club-shaped tentacles studded with suckers for grasping prey and the largest eye of any animal.

The Peabody Collections
The nearly 13 million specimens and objects in the Yale Peabody Museum collections are from every continent and most historic and prehistoric time periods. Each specimen in this drawer of butterflies from the Entomology collection is labeled with its species name, the date and place it was collected, and the collector's name.

The Giant Sea Turtle Archelon
This magnificent 11-foot-long specimen was the first Archelon discovered. It is still one of the most complete known though it is missing a right lower paddle which may have been bitten off by a predator. Archelon ischyros and the ancient fish Xiphactinus lived in a vast shallow seaway that covered large parts of western North America between 65 and110 million years ago.

Belted Kingfisher
The Belted Kingfisher is shown in the cattail marsh of the Coastal Region diorama in the Museum's Hall of Southern New England. The head and wings are slate blue and it has a white chin, throat, and neck. This bird's rust-colored belly band, not seen on males, means that it is a female.

Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagus
Just inside the entrance to the Daily Life in Ancient Egypt exhibition stands the lid of the Late Period stone sarcophagus that belonged to Khenty-khety-em-hotep, named in the hieroglyphics at his feet. The dog-like silhouettes near the bottom represent Anubis, the god in charge of caring for the mummy inside.

Brontosaurus "thunder lizard"
The 65-foot (almost 20-meter) Brontosaurus excelsus has amazed visitors for over 75 years. The Peabody Museum's Great Hall was designed for this specimen, which took more than three years to mount. The nearly complete skeleton was discovered near Como Bluff, Wyoming, in 1879 and named by Yale paleontologist, O. C. Marsh.

Yale Peabody Museum Entrance
The second and current Peabody Museum building, designed by gothicist Charles Klauder, opened to the public in 1926. The tall tree at left is Metasequoia, the dawn redwood. These trees from the reign of Tyrannosaurs rex were thought extinct until they were rediscovered in remote valleys in China in the 1940s.

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Explore! Highlights Coloring Book | Education : Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

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Torosaurus The bronze statue of Torosaurus latus outside the Peabody Museum is the first full-scale reconstruction of this dinosaur. Because only parts of its skull and skeleton have ever been found, the sculpture is based on extinct and living Torosaurus relatives such as hadrosaurs, birds, alligators, turtles, and even mammals.

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Here are some examples of how to draw 3D letters. Example of 1pt perspective...big word for something fun!

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How to Draw Step by Step Drawing Tutorials

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Lettering and Drawing Letters Archives - How to Draw Step by Step Drawing Tutorials

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How to Draw Lettering and Drawing Letters

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Here is a list of stuff you may not have realized are magical building supplies:

First off we know that EVERYONE has massive amounts of Toilet Paper….use the tubes.

Straws

Hangers (be careful)

Paper towel tubes

Twist ties

Paper Plates

Tissue boxes

Starbucks Clear cups

Coffee Cups

Styrofoam

Catalogues

Magazines

Wrapping paper

Yarn

Fabric

Bottle caps

Clothes pins

Bobby pins

Ink Cartridges

Empty K-cups

Water bottles

Toothpicks

Foil

Plastic wrap

Tooth brushes

News paper

Sticks or twigs

Leaves, rocks

Origami!!

Ribbon

Cotton balls

Q-tips

Lids from containers

Spaghetti

Marshmallows

Packing noodles

Wire

Cardboard

Buttons

Corks

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Create patterns and RADIAL design (That means it is in a circle pattern)

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We love working with papier mache and upcycled newspapers. Paper Clay though technically a papier mache is a different Paper Mache Technique and super fun to work with.

Homemade Paper Clay uses the same ingredients as a papier mache paste recipe, but you will need a blender as well! For a "whiter" clay finish, you can also use toilet paper and glue. But I prefer the shredded paper version as it is more eco friendly.

Did you know that shredded paper can NOT be recycled? Most paper recycling plants can't "handle" shredded paper as it is too small or clogs up the machines. So these shredded paper uses are great for eco friendly person!

DIY Paper Clay video

You can either watch out paper clay video tutorial or follow the step by step photo directions!

Step by Step Photo Directions

Step 1 DIY Paper Clay - Gather your suppliers

shredded paper or newspaper cut into pieces

large bowl

hot water

flour - 1 part flour to 4 parts pulp

salt

a hand blender or mixer

Step 2 Make Shredded Paper or cut up newspapers

Begin by shredding all your paper. Using stredded paper is a wonderful upcycling technique. Did you know that many recycling plant can NOT process shredded paper? It falls through the machinery gaps and clogs it up. So if you have paper to shredd.. this is a great way to use it up. We have more great shredded paper uses for you to explore as well!

Step 3 Fill a Bowl with Paper & Hot Water

Mix the water and shredded paper up throughly and make sure it is fully covered and able to saturate the shredded paper.

Step 4 Leave overnight (or for a few hours)

Your mixture won't look much different the next day.. but the paper should now be softer and ready for hand blending!

Step 5 Blend with a hand blender or similar

A hand blender is great or you can use an electrix mixer as well. Please ask for permission first and also make sure it doesn't overheat! Pulp up the paper with the blender until it is broken down completely.

Step 6 Squeeze out excess water

Step 7 Add some flour and salt

Step 8 Store in an air tight container

This will store in an air tight container in the fridge for 2-3 weeks.
NOTE: because we use flour and not glue, their is a unique smell to this DIY paper clay. But it is an organic, natural smell.. once you have painted your work and once it is fully dry it will pass. You CAN use glue as mentioned... however, the natural aspect is SO much better!
DIY Paper Clay Video Tutorial

Watch our simple and oh so easy to follow How to make Paper Clay video tutorial. As mentioned previosuly we prefer our method of using shredded paper and flour (vs toilet paper and glue) as it is true upcycling and eco friendly (flour is better than glue for the environment!).

We have used this paper clay to make:

Fruity Summer Bowls - great for young kids as they only need to mould the pulp into a bowl!

Fun Paper Clay Pencil Toppers.

We have so many more fabulous Papier Mache Techniques for you to explore and be inspired by!

More ideas for Shredded Paper:

You can also watch our Paper Clay video tutorial on YouTube

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We love working with papier mache and upcycled newspapers. Paper Clay though technically a papier mache is a different Paper Mache Technique and super fun to work with. Homemade Paper Clay uses the same ingredients as a papier mache paste recipe, but you will need a blender as well!

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If you do not have clay, or playdough, here is a homemade recipe.

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1. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C). Line a baking sheet.

2. Combine flour and salt in a bowl. Add water, a few tablespoons at a time, mixing well after each addition. Knead dough for 10 minutes. Wrap and let rest for 20 minutes.

3. Transfer dough to a floured work surface and knead until soft and pliable. Roll out to a thickness of 1/8 inch; cut desired festive shapes with cookie cutters. Transfer onto the prepared baking sheet; use a toothpick to make a hole in each ornament for hanging.

4. Bake in the preheated oven until dry and hard, about 2 hours. Allow to cool completely before decorating.

Yield will vary based on the size of the cookie cutters you use.

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Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C). Line a baking sheet. Combine flour and salt in a bowl. Add water, a few tablespoons at a time, mixing well after each addition. Knead dough for 10 minutes. Wrap and let rest for 20 minutes.

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Several years ago, we discovered the beauty that is baking soda clay during one of our annual Christmas ornament crafting sessions. Since then, baking soda clay ornaments have become a regular occurrence in our house - and not only for Christmas either! We've used the homemade modelling clay for all kinds of projects, and this year we're using it for two new ones - something spring-themed and something Easter themed {so stay tuned for those!} In the meantime, if you've not used it before, I'd highly recommend giving it a try. It requires only 3 very basic kitchen ingredients, it can be used for all sorts of projects, and it air dries in a couple of days time.

We've experimented with several variations in the recipe over the years {and even made a gingerbread version!}, and truthfully, it has always turned out. That being said, all of our variations have consisted of three main ingredients - cornstarch {aka cornflour on the other side of the world}, baking soda {also known as bicarbonate of soda or soda bicarb - baking powder will not work!!}, and water, and there is a recipe we use more often than any others, only because it's really easy to remember.

To make the clay, simply measure out the ingredients into a medium-sized pot and turn the element on to medium {or medium-low} heat, then stir pretty much constantly.

As the mixture heats up, it'll begin to thicken. What you want is for it to reach a mashed or whipped potato consistency... Keep stirring and turning the mixture over onto itself until you reach this point and then take it off the heat immediately. {Two things to note - you should not have any extra water floating around in the bottom of the pot when done, and if you were going to err on the wetter or drier side of things, I'd err on the wetter side as a drier dough does seem to crack more often during the drying process.}

Allow the mixture to cool in the pot for a few minutes or until you're able to handle it without burning yourself. When you're able, dump the contents of the pot out onto a clean countertop, form it into a quick ball, and wrap the ball in a damp dishtowel or cloth.

Allow it to cool this way for about 15 minutes or so.

When it's sufficiently cooled, unwrap the baking soda clay and give it a good knead. This will make the dough nice and smooth and take away any residual stickiness.

Now you're ready to create! You can use your clay to make next to anything, but here are a few things we've learned over the years...

1) When not in use, excess dough should be wrapped in a damp towel to keep it from drying out before you want it to.

2. Thicker pieces tend to crack more during the drying process, so try to keep your creations on the thinner side if possible. We usually aim for somewhere in the 0.75 - 1 centimetre thick range.

3. Parchment paper is your friend! Because baking soda clay is a lot softer than store-bought modelling clay, it can be a little bit more fragile. Placing a piece of parchment paper on either side of the clay while rolling it out really helps!

4. You want the drying process to be sloooow to avoid cracking. In other words, air drying is best, and somewhere away from a heat source is optimal. In Kuwait, where the weather is hot and there's always a very steady flow of a/c, we'd cover our tray of ornaments with a just barely damp towel to slow the drying process down. Gently flipping the ornaments over every now and then helps too.

5. After your pieces are dry, they can be decorated almost any way you please! We've painted ours with acrylics and watercolours, we've covered them with glue and dunked them in glitter, we've decorated them with markers and Sharpies, and we've glued embellishments onto them. Anything goes!

Alright, now time for the recipe...
Homemade Air-Dry Modelling Clay {aka baking soda clay}

2 cups of baking soda

1 cup of cornstarch

1 1/4 cups of water

Place all ingredients into a pot over medium heat. Stir the mixture almost constantly, until it thickens and becomes the consistency of whipped mashed potatoes. Let cool and then knead until smooth and no longer sticky. Done! Now create!

Need some ideas? Here are a few of our favourite baking soda clay projects from years past...
handprint keepsakes clay monogram ornaments fingerprint heart ornaments
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Homemade Air-Dry Modelling Clay {aka baking soda clay} - Mama.Papa.Bubba.

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Several years ago, we discovered the beauty that is baking soda clay during one of our annual Christmas ornament crafting sessions. Since then, baking soda clay ornaments have become a regular occurrence in our house - and not only for Christmas either!

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You do not have to do what they are doing...watch and create your own idea.

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Here are some LINE PATTERN ideas.

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15 Zentangle Patterns | Part 2 | Tutorial

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The Best ever!

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You can create a repeating pattern with ANYTHING

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Calling himself an "object arranger," Adam Hillman sees the beauty in things organized neatly. Taking everyday things like matches, cotton swabs, and push pins, he meticulously places them in mesmerizing patterns that transform them from the ordinary into the extraordinary. Divorced from their original function, the items hardly look like themselves, and with Hillman's intervention, they function as a single form that electrifies the composition.

While every one of Hillman's pattern arrangements is impressive, his food organization is some of his best work. Preparing these edible materials often involves delicate peeling or precise slicing, which is both time consuming and unpredictable-you never know how an Oreo's icing is going to look until you twist it open. It requires the utmost patience; a trait best shown in his photograph of Fruit Loops cereal that's arranged in a square gradient pattern suspended in a milky bath.

Hillman sells prints of his obsessively arranged art on Society6.

Through meticulous pattern arrangement, Adam Hillman creates visually soothing photos.

From everyday objects to food, Hillman organizes it all.

Some are arranged in rainbow colors, while others place an emphasis on shape design through negative space.

Whatever the items may be, Hillman shows how satisfying it is to see things organized neatly.

Adam Hillman: Instagram | Society6
h/t: [ Colossal]

All images via Adam Hillman.

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Designer Can't Stop Rearranging Everyday Objects into Visually Satisfying Compositions

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Click on the images on each page of this power point.

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Look around your house for things you can put into rainbow order. The picture below show how some pigments (colors)can be made.

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Build a castle with all those toilet paper rolls!!!

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I recently discovered that if I need something, all I have to do is ask. For instance, I totally underestimated how much glue we would consume, er, use in the art room this year and only ordered one gallon. When that well ran dry, I simply sent out a school-wide email and within hours I had enough glue to put back together all of the dishes I've managed to break over the years. Thank goodness! My dishwasher is simply devouring those styrofoam plates!

This is also how I managed to acquire the four million toilet paper tubes we used for this castle building project. The only slight draw back to asking for stuff: you just might receive far more than imagined (shoot me an email if you'd like to become the proud new owner of six garbage bags of toilet paper tubes! They make great gifts -- the expression on the recipent's face is always one of pure confusion which I like to interpret as joy).

Just exactly how where these amazing castle pieces created by fourth graders, aside from a gallon of glue and a ton of tubes? Well, lemme tell you:

Like I said, this project was a study of castles in Germany. We focused on Schloss Neuschwanstein (where you can see a super brief history here) and the landscape of Bavaria. During our first couple of art classes, we talked color theory and sky painting.

2. Next up: Cloud painting. We use a bristle brush to create the cloud texture with an emphasis that clouds have a flat bottom (hey, just like the art teacher!) and a fluffy top (ha! art teacher wishes). I also chat about showing space by painting the clouds near the horizon smaller and have them increase in size as they climb up the page.

3. After a big fat hairy chat about the landscape of southwestern Germany, we tackle the land. The students were given three pieces of 18" X 6" paper in the following colors: white, light green and green. They were instructed to crumble each piece, smooth it out, and rub water based oil pastels over each. Then each piece of paper was given a stroke of water with a paint brush to help blend the oil pastels. I have found the Crayola Portfolio Oil Pastels work best for this.

4. Once those were dry, each of the three papers were torn lengthwise. Some students opted to create three-dimensional mountains. This was done by taking a small torn piece of paper, coloring it heavily in oil pastels, laying it on the mountain and smearing the oil pastel from the paper to the mountain. From there, the land was glued to the sky painting.

5. After all of that landscaping, we were finally ready for our castle building. I kept the directions very basic because I was curious to see what the students would come up with. What I did tell them was to cut a slit up the back of the tube and fold each cut line about 1/4". This would be where the glue would go to attach to the landscape. This is also how the gnomes were glued down in my project posted last week.

6. For the top of the castle, short cuts were made and every other one was folded down. Easy.

7. The kids came up with the idea of the draw bridge. When one got the idea to glue a "chain" to hold the bridge, the rest just had to do the same.

8. Here's how they were shaping up after a couple of days. Once glued down, they were ready to be painted.

9. Students were to paint a base coat onto their castles. I offered them black paint but a handful wanted something a little more colorful. And sparkly. What's a castle without glitter, after all?

10. After the base coat was applied, students sponge painted gray paint onto their castle for a rock like texture. When one student used the back of his paint brush to create bricks, the rest of us all had a "why didn't I think of that?!" moment.

11. Once castles were complete, the real fun began. Our castle either had to have a flag and/or a shield. After a chat about Grimm's Fairy Tales, I encouraged the addition of characters to the scene. Those that decided to not include characters and finished early wrote stories about their kingdom.

And there you have it! Many moons, tubes and a gallon o' glue later, you've got some of the coolest castles in all of Tennessee. Now, that I've got all the glue a girl could ever want, I'm thinking of sending out an email asking for coins. Tell me what you think of this:

"Dear Teachers, The students will be using loose change. Would you mind sending any and all pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters to the art room? Thank you!"

With all these generous teachers of mine, this outta easily cover my Spring Break vacay to Daytona Beach. Art Teachers Gone Wild, here I come!

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In the Art Room: Totally Tubular Castles

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I recently discovered that if I need something, all I have to do is ask. For instance, I totally underestimated how much glue we would consume, er, use in the art room this year and only ordered one gallon.

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How to Make Playdough WITHOUT Cream of Tartar and No Cook! Play doh

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There is a written out step by step in the box above in this section.

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How to Draw 3D Letters Using One Point Perspective

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Henri Matisse working on his giant collage pictures. Like the ones I showed you from PARIS.

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Henri Matisse for Kids, Teachers and Parents

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Optical Illusion

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Very Easy!! How To Drawing 3D Floating Letter "A" - Trick Art on Line Paper

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Very Easy!! How To Draw 3D Hole & Stairs - Anamorphic Illusion - 3D Trick Art on paper

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Very Easy!! How To Draw 3D Hole - Anamorphic Illusion - 3D Trick Art on paper

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3D Hand Drawing Step by Step How-To // Trick Art Optical Illusion

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Made out of Egg Cartons

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This is such a fun, up-cycled craft project and all you need is egg cartons, scissors and a bit of glue. I find myself hunting in the shops for egg cartons with interesting shapes just to make these, all egg cartons are not made the same!

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One way to encourage creativity in kids is to ask them to look in the mirror and draw themselves! Self-portraits are a wonderful exercise in art exploration and can be created with many different mediums, not just pencil and paper. We've rounded up 12 awesome mixed media self-portrait projects kids can explore. Encourage kids to recreate their likeness using paper, felt, cardboard, paper maché, collages and more with these colorful self-expression art projects.

Wet Felted Portraits (via Meri Cherry)
Explore using felt to make these one-of-a-kind, sensory self-portraits.

Stick Portraits (via Pinterest)
We created these stick portraits for Michael's Crafts using family, friends and book characters as inspiration using our favorite colored pencils.

Modern Art Portraits (via Pink Stripey Socks)
Explore the works of great modern artists like Lichtenstein to create these brightly dotted self-portraits.

Loose Parts Self-Portraits (via Housing a Forest)
A creative use of loose parts and hardware items to create dimensional and cool self-portraits.

Self-Portrait Collages (via The Art Dream)
Get crafty with yarn, popsicle sticks, buttons and whatever you have in your craft drawers to create these fun self-portraits.

Large Self-Portraits (via Flashbugs Studios)
Kids have big personalities so that sometimes needs to be translated to their art. Create larger than life self portraits with this wonderful water color technique.

Polaroid Self-Portraits (via Make It Your Own)
This unique canvas and paint self-portrait art project has a unique twist to make it look just like a large painted Polaroid!

Cardboard Painted Self-Portraits (via Handmakery)
These gorgeous masks are truly pieces of art with beautiful and unique self-expressions in each one.

Wire Self-Portraits (via Small Hands Big Art)
Wire can be bent and formed to create shapes and expressions. Such an original idea for creating interesting self-portraits.

Magazine Self-Portraits (via Le DADA de l'Enfant Terrible)
Cutting out magazine or print media features often makes for hilarious self-expressions.

Flower Self-Portrait (via Willowday)
Gather your favorite flowers and foliage to create these pretty nature-inspired self-portraits.

Paper Maché Self-Portrait (via Hearts and Needles)
Explore paper maché to create a dimensional and textured self-portrait that can be painted with features afterwards.

What are your favorite self-portrait art projects for kids? Check out more creative projects here!

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12 CREATIVE SELF-PORTRAIT ART PROJECTS FOR KIDS

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One way to encourage creativity in kids is to ask them to look in the mirror and draw themselves! Self-portraits are a wonderful exercise in art exploration and can be created with many different mediums, not just pencil and paper. We've rounded up 12 awesome mixed media self-portrait projects kids can explore.

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Learn how to draw an abstract self portrait with this easy step by step tutorial. Lots of closed shapes will allow for some extra fun coloring.

Do your students need more face drawing practice, but you dread the overthinking that is so common when it comes to drawing eyes? Or if they draw them, do they tend to turn out on the tiny side?

This super simple tutorial will avoid all that as it has a kind of formula for drawing them extra large. Not to worry though, there's still lots of places for their own personalization. If fact, my PDF shows them some examples of how to draw different kinds of hair, to help them get started.

When the drawing is done, they should have lots of closed shapes that are just begging to be filled with lots of bright colors. Try challenging them to keep any color from touching itself, and see what kind of abstract magic happens.

MATERIALS

DIRECTIONS

Time needed: 45 minutes.

How to Draw a Big Eyes Self Portrait

More Portrait Projects

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Do your students need more face drawing practice, but you dread the overthinking that is so common when it comes to drawing eyes? Or if they draw them, do they tend to turn out on the tiny side? This super simple tutorial will avoid all that as it has a kind of formula for drawing them extra large.

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Did Van Gogh have a favourite colour? || Van Gogh Questions Ep.3

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Open this and print.

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These next 7 pages help you make corners, furniture and shapes for your Diorama.

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Lots of choice activities

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Art Primary Resources

Engage, inspire and challenge your pupils with our primary resources for Art and design.

Encouraging children to make and design a range of patterns and crafts, our Art resources are ideal for use with the National Curriculum and Scottish Curriculum for Excellence.

Art, craft and design are important topics for challenging your pupils share to ideas, experiences and imagination, as well as teaching them to use a range of materials creatively.

Our Art resources can be used in lesson plans to meet learning objectives centred on pupils developing their skills to experiment, invent and create their own work; or to control and use materials with creativity.

Extend art education with National Geographic Kids' resources on ancient art works and artists, architects and designers in history.

Type whatever you want to search

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United Kingdom Archives - National Geographic Kids

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Encourage children to make and design a range of products, patterns and crafts, using our National Geographic Kids Art primary resources.

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Turn you ideas into comic books

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Create Your Own Comic Strips Online with MakeBeliefsComix

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From Richard Byrne, editor of Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week -- ''Creating Comics for Comfort'' -- Living in Maine and father of two school-age children, Richard wrote the following item for teachers and students dealing with the terrible tragedy of the recent mass shootings in that state. He thought this an appropriate time to review and use Social and Emotional Learning resources, such as those offered by MakeBeliefsComix.com.

Make Beliefs Comix offers a library of fantastic, free ebooks for SEL. The library hosted by Make Beliefs Comix contains fillable PDFs that you can download for free. The latest addition to that library is 50+ Ways to Talk to Yourself and Find Healing. And for something a bit lighter, take a look at Pet Words: Conversations With Your Animal Friends.

"Here's a video overview of the Make Beliefs Comix ebooks and here's one about how to create comic strips on the Make Beliefs Comix website."

For many LGBTQ+ kids, especially when they're figuring things out, finding accepting spaces online can sometimes feel safer. Seek out creative opportunities and modes of self-expression, with this section in Make Beliefs Comix.

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ARTICLE #1: (click on the link below)
MakeBeliefsComix encourages students to create their own visual pandemic diary.

ARTICLE #2: (click on the link below)
One easy way to start playing with ideas is through the free, online tool at MakeBeliefsComix.com.

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Create Comics Online, it's Fun & Free at MakeBeliefsComix!

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Create comics online at MakeBeliefsComix. A fun way educators & parents can empower students to express ideas and stories in comix!

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Draw on your computer or tablet

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Foam Printmaking – Creativity Time with Julia Major

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Earth Day Activities: Pop Up Earth Card!

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Artist Clare Youngs

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I love textures and pattern, they form an important part of my collage work. Mark making is great fun and you can quickly build up a wonderful collection of creative papers to use on all sorts of projects.

Here are some of my favourite techniques made from bits and pieces found around the house. No need to order lots of expensive materials! This is a great one for the kids, you can send them on a hunt around to find things that can be pressed into paint or an ink pad and then can be pressed onto paper to make a mark.

I like to use recycled paper and card as much as possible. I use old cereal packets, pages from magazines, envelopes, packaging from delivered parcels, pages from half used note books, really anything I can make a print on! I used gouache paint but you can use any paint you have. I also used stamping ink pads but if you don't have them they are not essential.

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experiment with mark making! - clare youngs

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I love textures and pattern, they form an important part of my collage work. Mark making is great fun and you can quickly build up a wonderful collection of creative papers to use on all sorts of projects. Here are some of my favourite techniques made from bits and pieces found around the house.

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for all of you because I miss you.

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A Special Performance of "Rainbow Connection" from Kermit the Frog | The Muppets

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Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Track students' progress with hassle-free analytics as you flip your classroom!

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Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Track students' progress with hassle-free analytics as you flip your classroom!

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Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Track students' progress with hassle-free analytics as you flip your classroom!

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Art Therapy Series # 1 || Relaxing Mandala Art || Lax Lifestyle ❤

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Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Track students' progress with hassle-free analytics as you flip your classroom!

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Menggambar - Easy Zentangle Circle (doodle, zentengle, drawing)

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36 ZENTANGLE DRAWING PATTERNS | SOLLOMIO