Cardboard relief portraits

This project could be done from age 10 and up with most groups. We will be teaching this following a basic lesson on self portraits and proportions of the face.

Explain the way that a face is 3-dimensional and discuss what features stick out the most(such as the nose). Have students sketch out their face, then sketch out what shapes they need to make to build up their face. They may make each shape smaller and smaller to build it up. Here's an example;

Next, give the students slightly wet corrugated carboard, old boxes work great. Wetting the cardboard just makes it much easier to cut. Have the students use their sketch as a pattern and cut out each shape out of cardboard, and glue onto another square of cardboard. It should look something like this. 

After that, have students paint them! Voila! Cardboard relief self portrait!

-Meg