Monday, 21 August 2023

Grade 2 Character strength self-portraits


Lesson Background: 
As a part of our positive psychology program, we have been learning about the VIA character strengths. Students learned about the different strengths and then undertook a quiz to determine their own top strengths. They then created these artworks. 

Lesson Materials (per student):
1 sheet A4 white art paper
oil pastels
watercolours
a black sharpie

Lesson Steps:
1.  Students followed a directed-draw of a face, being given opportunities to make their face their own (e,g, demonstrating how to do thinner/thicker lips, narrower/wider eyes etc).
2. Students coloured in their drawings with oil pastel.
3.  Students were shown how to break their background up into a "stained glass window effect" by using straight lines to create sections with a lead pencil, and then tracing over them with a sharpie.
4.  Students painted each section.
5.  When dry, students wrote their top strengths in each section of the background.

Student Artworks:












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