Silhouettes

I found this art activity to be very creative! The focus was silhouettes, but with a personal twist. It was a lot of fun trying to find magazine clippings that relate to me. The activity also required me to be creative because I had to think out of the box to try to find images that mean something to me. I think this art activity would be beneficial to do at the beginning of the school year. For, it would allow the teacher and the students to get to know one another. I would also use this activity in a Social Studies lesson. Because silhouettes were extremely popular in our history I would ask the students to pick an influential person from our history and become the "expert" on that person. The students would have to research that persons life and create a silhouette of them. The students would fill it with magazine clippings or images that pertain to their persons life.