Found Object Faces– 1st grade

Objects on a paper: pencil, green cup, Milk Duds box, yellow figure, toy race car with number 78 create a face mask.

(these are the projects I burnt my fingers on!)  USE LOW TEMP GLUE GUNS!!!

Anyways, these are really charming and fun projects.

The 1st graders learned about recycled art and how to use unconventional materials in art.  We read 2 books by Hanoch Piven, which feature portraits made out of objects.

The children brought in objects from home that represented aspects of themselves and we assembled the parts into faces in art class.   We used foam board and matboard for the base of the faces.   Scroll down to see more examples of the artwork!

Here are ones we made last year.

Photo of various objects including toys, a checkerboard, a tiny skateboard, and a South Dakota postcard with Mount Rushmore.
A white square sheet with a green and red striped ribbon, a colorful ball, a coiled silver wire, and a red and white striped party blower attached to it—perfect for a Found Object Faces art project for 1st grade!.
A 1st grade art project featuring a child’s collage artwork of a face, created with red felt, pink yarn for hair, and various colored shapes for facial features—a playful take on Found Object Faces on a white background.
A creative art project for 1st grade: a Found Object Faces design with two rocks for eyes, a ruler as eyebrows, a coin nose, blue bottle cap ears, and pasta pieces for a smiling mouth on white paper.
A white sheet displays a creative Found Object Faces art project, where 1st grade students arranged a red gem, wooden pieces, hearts, flowers, and ribbons to resemble a face.
A simple 1st grade art project: a Found Object Face made with pink yarn and feathers for hair, a yellow star as the nose, small decorations for eyes, and a curved line smile on white paper.
A fun 1st grade art project, this Found Object Faces activity uses bottle caps for eyes, a ruler eyebrow, pins for ears, a circle nose, a ring mouth, and a leaf-shaped beard to create unique faces.

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