Hi!  My name is Greg, better known as The Kindergarten Smorgasboard!  I love to share ideas for teaching and learning with lots of glitter, glam and mustaches! I am honored to be a guest blogger for Teacher Created Resources. Today, I’d like to share a fun and simple New Year craft and math activity that you can do in your classroom.

New Year Self-Portrait

This New Year project is a fun and simple craft to make. Each child makes a portrait of themselves at a new year’s party. I provide each child with an oval for the face, a triangle for the hat, googly eyes and scraps of black and brown paper to make hair. I provide a few instructions up front but gave the students the freedom to get creative with their self-portraits. I used blue glitter paper on the bulletin board to keep with the New Year celebration theme. Once they finished their portraits, I posted them to the bulletin board and taped a noisemaker on the mouth to finish the project. I love how all the self-portrait turned out and how creative and fun the students are, especially with the hair!