An Arts and Crafts Activity
With this activity, you can have fun tracing your child’s body.
Materials Required:
- Large sheet of paper
- Scissors
- Crayons and markers
- Sheet of poster board
Optional Materials:
- Brads
- Colored paper
- Paint
Have your child lie face-up on a large sheet of paper (unprinted newsprint paper is great).
Start tracing the outline of your child’s body with a crayon or marker. When you’ve finished, cut the image out and glue it onto a large sheet of posterboard.
Now set your child going with crayons, markers, colored paper, tape, paint and whatever decorating materials you have on hand.
You can suggest drawing in facial features or clothes.
You even might choose to emphasize the ridiculous – suggest a 12-inch bow tie or bowling-ball-sized shoes. (Alternatively, your child can glue on “clothes” fashioned from construction paper.)
You can also use brads (metal fasteners you can buy at a stationery store not for young children). Put them at the major arm, leg, shoulder, and hip joints.
Be sure to paste the tracing on cardboard first before cutting up the individual parts and reassembling them with the brads.
Have your child sign the art and date it – then display the new masterpiece prominently. You may end up with a life-size Louvre.
This children’s activity is sponsored by Zane Education – the home of Online Visual Learning
