07/12/2025
Last week, my Homeschool Art Class kids wrapped up classes for the year by putting some final touches on their self portrait projects 👨🎨 Each and every one of them should be incredibly proud of the growth they showed, and the awesome results.
This class is made up of kids ranging in age from 5 to 11, so I have had the students form 2 groups, with 2 different age appropriate approaches to self portraiture.
My 9+ year olds started the project by learning about face mapping, which is a bit of a soft launch into the basic anatomy of the face... where to place the eyes, nose, mouth and ears. I had the students do some quick warm ups of silly faces, just to loosen up a bit, and then we had some practice together of sketching faces.
To begin the self portrait project, I had the students do a little brainstorming. What colours do they like? What clothes? What are their hobbies, interests and likes?
Some students chose to include these "symbols" to represent themselves also.
My under 7's group were given an introduction to collage. They were given printed out photos of themselves, as well as a variety of different colourful materials to decorate and express themselves with. They also painted portraits on canvas, and built a portrait from scratch using collage materials.
Each student was given a visual art diary, as well as some drawing materials in order to keep their creative spark going over the break.
I'm really looking forward to what 2026 has in store for this class, and I'm already busy prepping a year of really creative, fun and engaging sessions for my students 🥰
Please feel free to get in touch if you think this might be something your children would like to be a part of, I will be adding more sessions and new students are very welcome.
A huge thanks to the incredible staff at for welcoming me with open arms, and in many ways making these sessions possible. I appreciate you more than I can express 🫶
