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I just love her earphones! This is a great lesson on Picasso and making mistakes/ from Beautiful Oops. The third grade students are encouraged to explore and attempt different eye, nose, mouth and ear shapes before selecting the one(s) that they choose to use on their artwork.   I'm a huge fan of craypas, except when they end up on the floor.

Arts and Scraps strikes again. I bought these teardrop shaped rubber odd things a few years ago at Arts and Scraps.  I asked the students what they looked like and I got answers like, a teardrop, a balloon, a pear and mostly a head. So we decided to use them as a starting point for our Picasso dogs and other animals.  I find this starting point REALLY helps students draw larger and relieves the big white paper syndrome.  All of our students last year studied Picasso and three grade levels did portraits. It was exciting to see how they remembered so much of his style. This is only a sample from one school but I really love how they are turning out.

Just a small sample of finished Picasso inspired faces. Depending on the school, most were painted in tempera but also some additions of colored pencil and paper.  I'm really happy with the way they turned out. It was more time consuming project than I hoped it would be, but the results are incredible.

This is the third year I've done this lesson.  I believe I got the idea from Incredible Art Ideas. It starts with a quick color lesson where the students place circles of color at the top of an 18 x12 paper. Great chance to check to see what students are still struggling with colors and top/bottom/side etc. Then they dip their fingertip in the paint to make the stem and paint the side of their hand to make the leaves. FUN!!The next class we add SHAPES on the colored flowers.  Next they find color paper to match their skin type.  Note...I don't interfere with their choices in skin color.  They trace their hands, cut them out and glue them on the bouquet.  Shhhh...  these usually end up as Mother's Day gifts.

Our PTA and Clarkston Foundation supported our school in a special Picasso assembly. To prepare the students we studied pictures of Picasso's work and then made our own Picasso insprired faces.  We had a lively discussion on his art, especially the Weeping Woman.  The students love to make observations on why she is crying and why her face is white/grey.  I did this lesson with first grade, second and third grade. Finished examples to come...