The Colors of Us

Our first social studies theme in first grade is called "All About Me." During this unit first graders learn about themselves, their friends, why we are all special, and how we can all work together! At the beginning of the school year each class read a book called The Colors of Us which shows a child's creative look at how we all look different and are all special and unique. During the month of September we worked hard to create self portraits similar to the ones in the book. We learned that by mixing white, brown, black, red, and yellow paint together in different proportions we are able to make a range of skin colors. We started our project by decorating name plates and painting background paper, then painting paper to look like our skin colors. We cut out heads, necks, noses, and ears from our skin colored paper. To finish we picked the hair and eye color that we thought best suited us and added these along with eyebrows, eyelashes, and lips to our paintings. Our end result was a collection of beautiful self portraits which were hung up in time for open house and are still decorating our wall! Below you will find photos of our process as well as the finished paintings!

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