Winter self portrait collage kindergarten art lesson

Self Portrait winter collage
kindergarten lesson

I found this idea from http://kidsartists.blogspot.com/2012/02/winter-mittens-and-cap.html. I just changed it to fit the needs of my kindergarteners.

On the first day we sponge painted blue and white paint onto a 12" x 18"  multi-media paper. We then stamped snowflakes onto the paint. I purchased the snowflakes from Amazon. The snowflakes probably would have shown up better if we waited for the paint to dry, but I didn't want to wait another day. Both steps took around forty minutes.

On the next day we discussed lines and patterns. Students were given a choice of colored construction paper that had a copy of a hat and mittens on them.  Since I've done this lesson our school got a new copy machine which doesn't allow me to use construction paper anymore. For future lessons I will have the students trace patterns on the paper. 

 

I reminded the students that the hat and mittens had to be a matching set. 

On the third day I provided students with an oval pattern to trace onto a multicultural colored construction paper that matched their skin color. I explained to students that this was only their face. They needed to draw hair above their heads. 

Students drew their self portrait and then traced the lines with a black sharpies.

Carefully, students cut their self portraits out and glued them to their painted papers from the first day of the project. 

The last step was to cut out their hats and mittens and glue them to their collage.