Activity Overview
Engage in a calming art activity which I must warn you may lead to some silly moments as time goes on. This activity is for school aged children and above to enjoy as it does require some paper preparations and drawing capability. It is more of a taking turns activity where each person adds a segment to the drawing flaps and then hands it back for the other person to add to it. So you may want to either have two works of art that two people swap back and forth or have another activity with which the participants and swap jobs between the two.
Materials Needed
- Paper
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Crayons or colored pencils if desired
How to Make It
- Take a piece of paper and fold it into fourths. You can attain this by folding it in half and half again.
- Cut off the fourth piece with your scissors. You will not need it for this project.
- Measure each side flap into thirds and cut along the lines while leaving the center section intact.
- Using very light pencil strokes, lightly draw pencil lines onto the center section where the flaps cover so you have a guide for where to place your base drawing.
- There will be nine drawing spaces to fill in with body sections.
- Take turns with friends or family members to fill in the sections of body parts without peeking at what may be lurking under the other folds.The head and neck go in the top third, the torso in the middle segment, and the legs and feet in the bottom third.
- Close your right side flaps and draw a different option for the head, the mid section, and legs.
- Next close the left side flaps and draw another different option for the head, mid section, and legs.
