Self-portraits with watercolours
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When children make self-portraits, these often turn into beautiful, shrewd, funny and at times poetic small pieces of work. These portraits are made by Y3 pupils from Frederiksberg. They have drawn themselves on watercolour paper and coloured the images with liquid watercolour.
TARGET GROUP: Infants/lower juniors (preschool-Y3)
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1 Cut a piece of watercolour paper in half lengthwise. This provides an excellent format for the portraits.
2 Let the pupils draw themselves in pencil.
3 Then draw the portrait with a black Edding markers, (copying the pencil line).
4 Colour-in the portrait with liquid watercolours. If the pupils work wet-on-wet, they can experiment with colour mixing and effects.
5 Let the watercolour paint dry.
6 Laminate the portraits.
7 The portraits can also be cut out and put on milk cartons - either for exhibition in tableaux or for role-playing games in class.
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