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July 17, 2018 | 10 Comments

All About Me Self Portrait Preschool Craft

One of the most classic themes used in kindergarten and preschool classrooms at the start of the year is All About Me. New friends and old learn about themselves and each other, about similarities and differences as they build their unique classroom community with their classmates. My All About Me Thematic Unit is a great place to get All About Me lesson plans for preschool and kindergarten but I wanted to share this self portrait preschool craft now because I just don’t want you to have to wait to buy the thematic unit. Patience is something I have in heaps for children but not for this. I just love this all about me preschool craft.

All about me craft for preschool

 

The beauty of exploring all about me early in the school year is that as children explore the theme, you get to know more about them and their families as well. Yay for deeper connections! After doing this theme following it up with a unit about families just makes sense. Check out our mini-unit all about families here. 

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SELF PORTRAIT PRESCHOOL CRAFT

If you are going to be doing self portraits with children you must have paint or crayons in various skin colors to allow them the time to consider, reflect and decide the shade they wish to use for their skin color. My favorite crayons for this are made by Crayola and can be bought here.

All about me self portrait

Gather your materials. You will need some small paper plates ( get bigger with age, for young preschoolers keep them small so creating the collage doesn’t take forever and they get bored or overwhelmed), crayons, glue, a hand-held mirror, and buttons.  Something I didn’t have on hand but should have for children with glasses was some pipe cleaners to make them!

Button self portrait craft for kids

I like to start by having each child pick out the buttons they want before it’s time to actually create. I sit with them during free choice and using the mirror we look at their eyes, nose, and hair. We talk about which buttons would be best to use. I do not correct the child at all. If they want to make a literal interpretation of their features cool, if they want to have two different color eyes, no hair, and four noses… rad!  Support every student’s creativity and be open to their vision of themselves. Also, if you have a very young group, they may want to look at themselves but not have the attention span for picking out and planning the buttons… that’s fine! Just make sure they have access to many different colors later.

After they have chosen these buttons and made a face I set them aside.

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Next, we color the paper plate the color they choose from their skin color. Again this is about self-expression not a picture-perfect representation of a 4-year-old. If that was the case would we be using buttons? Remember kids can mix two colors together too!

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Time to add the glue!

all about me craft

Buttons are fun with glue because it squishes through! I love using buttons with preschoolers ( once they are over the “put everything in my mouth” stage) because they are fab for developing fine motor skills.

Self portrait crafts for preschool and kindergarten

Don’t worry if your students use a ton of glue; it will dry, eventually.

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If you are doing this activity as a group make sure you have a quiet activity, centers, or an assistant teacher to keep the fast finishers engaged because some children will be totally into this, others may not.  I love this hair!

self portrait craft

If you have some fun buttons, you can use them for earrings, hair clips and more…

Have fun with this activity and remember it’s about self-expression… and fine motor skills, but mostly self-expression.

 

Need more preschool lesson plans with an all about me theme ?

Get more All About Me activities with our printable lesson plans for preschool in the All About Me thematic unit. Learn more about it here!

 

Need some books about being yourself?

Here are 30 great picture books that help teach children that being different is a strength, not a weakness. See the full list and reviews here.

Looking for more great preschool activities and lesson plans?

 

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10 Comments

  1. Robertson Jennifer says

    July 18, 2018 at 8:55 pm

    Do you know of a good source to purchase a large quantity of buttons?

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    • Allison McDonald says

      July 26, 2018 at 2:18 pm

      The dollar store!

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