These charming 'portraits with shadows' were made by Gr.3 students. I found the idea at the elementary art blog: "An Art Room Filled with Fauves". The supplies you'll need are: white drawing paper strips (1-2") of colored paper black paper (for the shadow) colored paper (for the background) glue stick, scissors, pencils colored pencils or markers So start off with the kids drawing a full figure person- you could make it a self-portrait lesson, or kids might research a famous historical person (to link with Social Studies), whatever. I gave the kids free reign to choose whomever they liked. Draw this lightly in pencil, then colour with media of your choice; we used colored pencils. Carefully cut out the figure. Place upside-down onto black paper and slowly trace with a light colored pencil. This will be the shadow- cut out. Decide where is the best placement for the shadow- I found it works slightly above or below to either the left or the right hand side. For the border, I pre-cut a bunch of construction paper using a paper cutter- it went really fast. These were about 1 inch thick or so. Kids will cut these into squares and glue them around their background paper to create a simple border. Ta da!