Personal Mural

 

In this lesson, we had to either chose to draw our name or our initials in bubble letters. Students had to choose five different line patterns, colors, and shapes that describe themselves personally. An example of this is the pawprints present in the picture to represent the love I have for my dogs. This lesson is great for a 3rd-grade classroom where the students get to practice drawing lines and shapes/patterns that represent you as a person. We would then tape all the projects up on the wall in the classroom to create a mural to show that although we are all pretty similar we are all still different at the same time. 

Extension Activity: This could be added into a geometry lesson where instead of personal pictures/patterns students draw they would have to choose five shapes to draw using a straight edge and then they have to think pair share to another student about the shapes and lines they chose to draw. Students would still need the lines and colors but instead they draw shapes rather then paw prints and moons etc.

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