Using Action Silhouettes to Brighten a Hallway
If you’ll recall, not long ago I shared an idea that I found on The Art Room blog at Falcon Academy of Creative Arts’ website. My students and I went to work right away outlining silhouettes and cutting out dots of colored paper (minus the marble effect shown in the original Art Room post). Here’s how our hallway is looking so far. We have three more silhouettes left to go.
We then put our own twist on the idea, tying it in to Acts 17:28, which says, “For in Him we live and move and have our being, which makes all of us His offspring.” This picture shows the lettering we made with black paper and polka dots.
The figures have worked wonders brightening up our otherwise plain, long hallway, and already we’ve received many compliments about the display. For me, the best part though is seeing students enjoy stretching their creativity and expressing themselves in positive ways.
Loved, loved, loved this idea. I tried something different for tracing the silhouettes, since I have a few squirmy little ones that couldn’t possibly sit still long enough to have me draw them. I set up a white sheet background picture studio. Then each of the students took turns getting their picture taken in various poses. They got to pick their favorite ( and I got to see if it would make a good silhouette.) We put the pictures into PowerPoint slides. They were then very easy to project onto the cardboard and size the projection to be the actual size of each student. The projected image was even easy enough for students to outline. We are having so much fun! Thanks, Deborah!
Sally, I am glad you loved it and that you gave it a try using some modifications. That’s what teaching is all about! Finding the way it works for you and your students.