Last week we were getting a little cabin fever with all the rain we were having, so I decided to do a little "art project" as the Boys call it. We started off by talking about self portraits and looking at some famous ones. We talked about how a self portrait is a picture of yourself, like this one of Vincent van Gogh:
People use self portraits to tell us special things about themselves, like in this self portrait, Norman Rockwell is showing us how he likes to draw and paint:
I asked the Boys what they thought Frida Kahlo was trying to tell us in this self portrait:
And they were so insightful! E said it was the jungle and O said she like animals; not bad coming from a 2 and 4 year old!
We even talked about how self portraits don't always have to look like things do in real life! Like this one of Picasso:
O said maybe he wasn't feeling well when he drew this picture of himself, haha!
Once we had done a little art history, we got out the paper, pencils, and markers and got to work. Adventure Boy O wanted me to do the drawings and let him do "just my face", while E just wanted to color himself. This opened up a little lesson on the difference between a portrait and a self portrait and we decided that I would do portraits of everyone in our family, and let them do the drawing of their face and the coloring, respectively. Not quite what I had in mind, but hey, you roll with it, right?
Once we got the portraits done, I let the Boys cut them out and gave them some supplies (glue, popsicle sticks, and playdoh). Then I asked them to figure out how we could make our family of portraits stand up on their own. It took them maybe 30 seconds to glue the popsicle stick to the back of the picture and stick it in a ball of playdoh. The only one we had trouble with was Adventure Dad whose popsicle stick wasn't long enough so he kept flopping forward. We solved the problem by cutting another piece of paper and gluing it to the back of his portrait.
Once all the portraits were standing up on their own, we played with math a little bit by counting the members of our family and doing some simple addition. We figured out that 4 boys plus 1 girl equals our family of 5. Also, 3 kids plus 2 parents equals our family of 5.
The Adventure Boys had fun playing with their family portraits for a little while, but soon were more interested in just playing with playdoh. Oh well. I've saved the family portraits for another STEAM Camp idea I'm planning on doing this week, so stay tuned!
Materials Needed:
Paper
Markers (or preferred drawing supplies)
Scissors
Glue (or tape)
Popsicle Sticks
Playdoh
Setup:
Just gather supplies and children!
Project:
Draw a self portrait, and a portrait of each member of their family
Cut out each portrait
Glue (or tape) popsicle stick to back of portrait, leaving a bit sticking out the bottom
Put popsicle stick into ball of playdoh
STEAM Breakdown:
Science:
Technology:
Engineering: Figuring out how to use the provided materials (glue, popsicle stick, playdoh) to make portraits stand up on their own.
Art: Drawing self portraits to tell something about themselves (favorite color, etc), drawing portraits of other members of family.
Math: Counting members of family. Simple addition (4 boys + 1 girl = family of 5; 3 children + 2 parents = family of 5, etc.)
People use self portraits to tell us special things about themselves, like in this self portrait, Norman Rockwell is showing us how he likes to draw and paint:
I asked the Boys what they thought Frida Kahlo was trying to tell us in this self portrait:
And they were so insightful! E said it was the jungle and O said she like animals; not bad coming from a 2 and 4 year old!
We even talked about how self portraits don't always have to look like things do in real life! Like this one of Picasso:
O said maybe he wasn't feeling well when he drew this picture of himself, haha!
Once we had done a little art history, we got out the paper, pencils, and markers and got to work. Adventure Boy O wanted me to do the drawings and let him do "just my face", while E just wanted to color himself. This opened up a little lesson on the difference between a portrait and a self portrait and we decided that I would do portraits of everyone in our family, and let them do the drawing of their face and the coloring, respectively. Not quite what I had in mind, but hey, you roll with it, right?
Once we got the portraits done, I let the Boys cut them out and gave them some supplies (glue, popsicle sticks, and playdoh). Then I asked them to figure out how we could make our family of portraits stand up on their own. It took them maybe 30 seconds to glue the popsicle stick to the back of the picture and stick it in a ball of playdoh. The only one we had trouble with was Adventure Dad whose popsicle stick wasn't long enough so he kept flopping forward. We solved the problem by cutting another piece of paper and gluing it to the back of his portrait.
Once all the portraits were standing up on their own, we played with math a little bit by counting the members of our family and doing some simple addition. We figured out that 4 boys plus 1 girl equals our family of 5. Also, 3 kids plus 2 parents equals our family of 5.
The Adventure Boys had fun playing with their family portraits for a little while, but soon were more interested in just playing with playdoh. Oh well. I've saved the family portraits for another STEAM Camp idea I'm planning on doing this week, so stay tuned!
Materials Needed:
Paper
Markers (or preferred drawing supplies)
Scissors
Glue (or tape)
Popsicle Sticks
Playdoh
Setup:
Just gather supplies and children!
Project:
Draw a self portrait, and a portrait of each member of their family
Cut out each portrait
Glue (or tape) popsicle stick to back of portrait, leaving a bit sticking out the bottom
Put popsicle stick into ball of playdoh
STEAM Breakdown:
Science:
Technology:
Engineering: Figuring out how to use the provided materials (glue, popsicle stick, playdoh) to make portraits stand up on their own.
Art: Drawing self portraits to tell something about themselves (favorite color, etc), drawing portraits of other members of family.
Math: Counting members of family. Simple addition (4 boys + 1 girl = family of 5; 3 children + 2 parents = family of 5, etc.)
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