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Body Pictures– Summer Camp

I am teaching 3 summer art sessions.  Each session is two hours long with one or two art projects.  For this session, I had 2 students going into 4/5th grade, 2 students who just finished kindergarten, and one student going into kindergarten.  It was a small class, which was perfect for this project, since the pictures were LARGE.

To start, we traced our bodies on large butcher paper.  Then, we outlined them with markers and used collage materials (magazine images, stickers, tape and paint) to create an artwork about ourselves.

Drawing of a human figure on brown paper on the floor, with a person standing nearby wearing sandals.

At a crafting table, a child at summer camp decorates an outline of a person on brown paper with colorful shapes.

A child at summer camp is working on a life-sized body picture, adding color, tape, and stickers on a table.

At summer camp, a child creates a colorful stick figure drawing using markers and stickers on a large sheet of brown paper.

A body picture of a person on a beige wall, decorated with various color papers and a photo, with objects taped on it.
A colorful, abstract painting of a body on a brown table with art supplies scattered around.

A colorful cutout of a person, decorated with various fabrics and paper pieces, lying on a brown paper sheet.

A person holds a large poster with a drawing of a human-shaped figure, decorated with various colorful shapes and images.

A large paper with a child’s drawing of a person, decorated with various items and colors, is displayed in a classroom.


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About Marcia Beckett

Marcia is an elementary art teacher and loves painting, drawing, sculpture, art journaling and clay. Her blog, Art is Basic, features many exciting art projects for kids.

2 Responses to Body Pictures– Summer Camp

  1. Raylee says:

    these are great, i love to see what kids come up with. i have kept one of these done by my grand daughter when she was about ten.

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