MLK Jr. Portraits

MLK Jr. Portraits and Peace Signs:

 We drew MLK Jr. with a pencil, traced him with a sharpie and then watercolored our picture. I would use a rectangle piece of paper instead, he might not look so wide:)

We wrote: MLK Jr. helped people by... I can help people by...

Here is my attempt at a how to draw for MLK Jr from a picture I saw:

We made scratch art peace signs to go with him.

Some of the students wanted to draw lines and color in the peace sign after they saw my attempt. This was a little harder.

MLK Jr. Word Search

My son made this... I thought it was super cute. Instead of covering the crayon with paint, he just colored over it with black and then did the scratch art. Easy, adorable and goes along with MLK Jr.'s message about looking for what's on the inside.

Click HERE for another easy and cute MLK Jr. project from Preschool Daze.

Earth Mural

Person Pattern

Clothes Pattern

Dream Cloud

We traced the clothes on fabric, glued them onto the person and added yarn hair. We wrote on our dream cloud about what we could do to make the world a better place like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did.

For the Earth Puzzle: After reading quite a few MLK Jr. books we came up with a list of words that he stood for. Each student was given a piece to the puzzle (some two pieces), they wrote one of the words on their piece with crayon and then water colored it according to the picture. Make sure they write the number of their puzzle piece on the back so they are easily put back together. We put the pieces together in the hall and then added our paper dolls and dream clouds to create the mural.

I thought the sizing would get messed up if I tried to put the puzzle pieces all on one document so it may take a little while to print out:). I copied them onto white construction paper to make them a little more stiff. There are 28 pieces.

1     2     3     4     5     6     7     8       9     10

11     12     13     14     15     16     17     18     19     20

21     22     23     24     25     26     27     28

I used this for MLK Jr. but it could also be used for Earth Day.