Super Hero Self Portraits are a creative way to allow kids to become familiar with design elements, technology, story telling, characters, and dialogue! We used an online program to alter our own photos and had so much fun in the process.
We took simple photos of the kids against a solid background in powerful poses. We uploaded the images to PicMonkey to experiment with the Comic Heroes theme.
We added a comic print effect then added sound effects, narration boxes, and speech balloons.
As we worked together, I showed our daughter how to enlarge aspects of our design, tilt the overlays, and change the colors. For example, we gave our villan, Gingernado, an orange mask. She dictated the text of our comic.
This image was especially beneficial for discussing the different types of text that a comic or graphic novel author uses to tell a story. E has been incredibly interested in reading comics lately so she was inspired before we began by this prior knowledge. She understood that the text in the dialogue should use a first person pronoun which demonstrated her knowledge of this genre.
More Super Hero Ideas from the Second Grade Team:
Super Hero States of Matter from Look! We're Learning!
Super Math Skip Counting from Sugar Aunts
Free Math Printable for Inequalities with Addition from Life Over C's
Superhero Pattern Stones from Rainy Day Mum
Super Hero Reading Logs from 123 Homeschool 4 Me
I am a Super Hero! Writing Prompt from Creative Family Fun
Superhero Contractions Memory Game from School Time Snippets
Superhero Cityscape Art Project with Van Gogh from Preschool Powol Packets
Create your own Superhero Comic-Photo-Strip from Crafty Kids at Home
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Oh m goodness! Such a FUN idea!
ReplyDeleteThis is great! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThis looks like so much fun! Clearly we need to start using PicMonkey!!
ReplyDeleteSo sweet and such a cute memory!
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