Play Dough Self Portraits

Enhance your All About Me learning theme with a hands-on craft sensory activity; self-portraits of play dough. With its tactile benefits and endless possibilities, play dough serves as a great medium to foster essential fine motor skills for young minds while nurturing imagination.

In this fun activity, your child will use a variety of materials to create self-portraits. Although playdough plays an important role in this project, you can add lots of other materials, especially recycled ones. This is perfect for using up all those little things from your other crafting activities.

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Self-portrait is one of the more important art lessons in early childhood education, and we’d love to give you new ideas on how to tackle this topic.

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This self-portrait activity is great for young people, however, you will have to prepare a “blank canvas” for them.

How to take a self-portrait with playdough

What you need:

These are just some of the materials you can use.

• pencil
• drag
• glue
• yarn (we used yellow)
• Play dough with different colors
• cardboard
• black marker
• colored pencils

Step-by-step instructions

Prepare the background for portraits. Make one for each student.

We recommend drawing the outline with a dark black marker.

Cut outline.

Each child will individualize. If you have scrap yarn, you can let the kids make hair from it. An alternative (cheaper) solution is to just use paper and you can also let your child practice using scissors.

To make strands of hair, especially long strands, cut the strands and tie them in the middle.

Glue the hair onto the portrait. Children can use white school glue or a low temperature glue gun.

To keep your hair long, apply more glue on the sides.

Clothing is an important part of a self-portrait. Let children color with crayons.

It’s a fun time playing dough! Have your child choose playdough that matches their eye color.

Let’s make the eyes. They can be one color or kids can layer them, it’s up to them.

They can add smaller circles inside the eyes.

And even add little black ones for the students.

Why not add a pair of eyebrows?

Ask your child to flash a seductive smile by shaping the dough into a mouth.

Finally, have them shape a nose and press it into the cardboard, giving it a bit of a 3D effect for a striking effect.

All done!

How did your child enjoy the self-portrait project?

This whole process is a great way for children to express how they see themselves.

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