2nd Grade- "How We Express Ourselves" Emojicons Project

This a brand new project I did with second graders this past year. I discussed how people use art to express themselves using symbols. My students love emoji-cons, so I had them draw them.  The materials needed for this project are

Black Crayons
Construction Paper Crayons
Watered Down Sax Perscalent Tempera Paint
12 x18" paper
paint brushes




The first day of this project, students drew six circles to serve as their emojicons using construction paper crayons. I had them draw 3 on the top row of their 12 x18" paper and 3 on the bottom. I then instructed them to start drawing different emojicons (they each had to a different one). This took 1 class period.

During the second class period, students then added the eyes and mouths of their emojicons. To finish their pieces, I gave them watered-down Sax Pearlascent Paint, to give some color to the backgrounds of their paper. The end result ended up like this