5th Grade: Silhouette Art

To try and learn more about who my students are, the fifth graders started the year off with this silhouette project. The students first learned what a silhouette is.

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The students create a black and white border, a silhouette drawing of themselves using a photograph, and filled it in with drawings to describe themselves. Drawing a silhouette outline of a face is not easy, but you can see that some of the students really captured their profile.