Age Range: 2+

Time to Complete: 25 minutes

Supplies Needed

• Paper

  • Black for the background

  • Main color for face and neck

  • Assorted types for features

    • newspaper

    • Magazines

    • photos

• Glue, stick or liquid

• Scissors

1. On a colored paper that you’ve chosen to represent your skin, draw the head and neck and cut it out in one shape or use the template provided.

Note: this is a Picasso inspired portrait; your skin can be any color!

Use a Template

2. Glue your cut-out colored paper head and neck onto the black paper background.

3. Cut different papers to make the features of your face, your eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and eyebrows. You can use any type of paper you find, like magazines, mail, or paper that you’ve drawn on for your features. Include smaller shapes for your eyelashes or special features like moles or birthmarks.

Note: This would be a great time to go over shapes: circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, hexagons, half circles.

4. Arrange and place your shapes where you would like trying them in different spots and arrangements. In cubist work, features are not always the same size or shape, be playful in the colors and shapes.

5. When you are happy with your arrangement, glue them in place.

Pablo Picasso- (1881 – 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.