Self Portraits with Silk Clay
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Children's personal and spatial intelligence is enhanced by this creative project when creating self-portraits and when modelling and mixing colours. When children depict themselves, they increase their self-awareness (self-wise) – and similarly by reproducing their own skin, hair and eye colour. They demonstrate how they see and understand themselves (self-wise). Children's spatial intelligence is enhanced when modelling and mixing different modelling clay colours to make the actual colours, thus learning how different colours react with each other.
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How to do it
1 Use white, light brown and a small amount of red as shown for a light skin colour mix in Silk Clay.
2 Model the Silk Clay balls together until the colour is uniform.
3 Form the head and place it onto the base of the collage frame.
4 Push Foam Clay onto the base of the collage frame as the background. Now you may add hair, eyes, mouth, etc. mixed or modelled in Silk Clay.
Image-wise Spatial intelligence. Enhanced by activities in which children must use their abilities to perceive, recognise and express themselves within the spatial, real world.
Self-wise Personal intelligence. Enhanced by activities in which children must use their self-awareness, the ability to act and make personal decisions in a way which is adapted to match their surroundings.
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