Name Painting

This lesson required us to create our name using different mediums. The first step was to take our white piece of construction paper and fold it to create 12 squares. Next, we glued the white paper onto a large piece of construction paper. Then we took a stack of 6 colored construction paper squares. Now it was time to create a pattern. First a colored square then a white then a colored. This repeated until you go the whole sheet covered. 
Then we created a pattern by writing our name in oil pastels. I started by making my M orange, then O purple, and R green. I repeated that color pattern with the remaining letters in my name. Now we painted over the letters that were on the white squares. We used water color to paint over it. Because we wrote our names in oil pastels, the water color resisted the oil pastel and only went on the paper. 

An extension activity would be to have the students create symbols in each square that represent something important to them. It would be a fun way to learn about your students at the beginning of the year like we did with our feet. Another fun way would be to draw a picture that beings with the same letter as the one in your name. For example, I would draw a monkey for M, an orange for O, etc.