"Silhouettes"

This activity was called Silhouettes, and for this the students learned about the history of silhouettes and what they were. After we had the students pick a partner and they were to trace each other's outlines of their faces. After they had the outlines we provided magazines for them to pick out pictures that represented them or things that they like. After they picked out pictures they had to write five words that describe them. The object was to cover as much of the paper that they can and not leave any white spaces. An extension activity that students could do with this would be to use this in a social studies class and have the students draw an outline of a famous person in history, such as a president and fill the silhouette with things they learned about the famous person.