Grace's Life Sized Collages!

Grace absolutely loved this project and we we only completed the first few steps - the collages are a work in progress! The idea for this activity sprung from Grace's love of measuring and having herself measured to see if she has grown. This project began by taping together two long pieces of paper. I traced Grace's body onto the paper so she could measure herself. After I traced Grace she painted her body using a new painting method - a paint roller! Grace picked her own colors (we have been talking a lot about color families & warm and cool colors). Grace choose to paint her "Grace" using blue and green. I also asked Grace to paint the paper around her body outline. The extra painted paper will be used later for eyes, hair, and other facial/body features. Grace loved the idea of measuring, tracing, and roller painting so much that she decided to trace several of her stuffed animal friends too! In the picture above Grace is tracing her cat, Eliza Jane.Grace ended up tracing and painting three of her stuffed friends and chose such beautiful and vibrant colors to paint them. I love how Grace's collages turned out looking very Eric Carle inspired! The next steps of this collage project include cutting out the collages and adding features. We will be working on these collages all next week. Jack made his own collage too - it's the one pictured at the bottom of the picture! You can read all about Jack in the post below to see how he created his collage.