Life-Size Self Portrait
Trace your kid on cardboard and let them decorate a life-size version of themselves. A long, absorbing project for slow afternoons.
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How to do it
- 1
Have the kid lie down on a large sheet of cardboard.
- 2
Trace their outline with a marker.
- 3
Hand them paint, brushes, and any natural finds, then let them decorate the figure however they want.
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