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Shadow Pictures
Grade: 3-8 •
Age: 7-12 •
Written by: Andrea Mulder-Slater
[Andrea is one of the creators of KinderArt.com]
This activity teaches students about light, shade and shadow.
What You Need:
- Flashlight (and a dark room)
- Construction paper (white & black)
- Pencils
- Poster board
- Masking tape
What You Do:
- Tape a piece of white construction paper to the wall in a dark room.
- Place the flashlight on a table. Shine the light at the white construction paper.
- Sit between the light and the paper so that your profile appears on the paper.
- Have a partner trace around your silhouette onto the paper.
- Remove the paper from the wall and make sure your lines are smooth.
- Next, cut the silhouette out of the paper, place onto black construction paper, trace around it and cut it out..
- Glue the black silhouette onto white poster board. Add your name and date to the work.
Optional: You may wish to add more than one silhouette to the poster board (as shown in example above).
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