First Grade - Lego Self Portrait

One Day Lego Self Portrait Lesson

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I needed a quick one day project before winter break and this was an awesome lesson to fill in with. I got this lesson from another art blog Art.Eat.Tie Dye.Repeat (highly recommend checking it out if you haven't already) and tweaked it to fit for my first graders. 

First we put on our thinking caps and cranked them back to last year when they drew self-portraits. We had a nice discussion about what a self-portrait is and isn't. 

Second they told me the shapes we can see in a lego. The legs are rectangles, the head is a circle, or is it a square? Why not somewhere in the middle? A square with round edges! Then we talked about making something personalized. How can we tell its a self-portrait and not just a portrait 

Third students created their self-portraits adding color using their drawing materials. 

This is one of my particularly gifted artists. She did an amazing job with her portrait even getting the details down to her blue socks! 

Some students finished early. For these kiddos I allowed them to flip their page over and start a second lego "selfie". This time they could make it goofy or imaginary. We had everything from a superhero, to a mermaid, to a monsters! It was great to see the students get creative with their self portraits while still remember to add details about themselves! 

Lego monster self-portrait

A fairy self portrait. Creative while still keeping the hair to be her own and lego like wings!