Portraits of family

Ages 6 to 8 Read together, then try alone · about 25 minutes

Read together

A portrait is a picture of a person. Look at the shape of the face.

Eyes are halfway down the head.

Do it

1. Ask a family member to sit still for five minutes.
2. Draw an oval for the head. Mark the middle line, then place the eyes on it.
3. Add nose, mouth and ears. Look at the person often, not only at your paper.
4. Give the portrait to them. Write their name and the date.

Talk about it

• What do you like about this face?
• Does it look like them?

For the grown-up

Portraits teach careful looking. Praise the effort, not likeness. We draw people we know. We do not draw the face of Jesus in these lessons, in line with the way this site treats his image.

Mark as done

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