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Collage Portraits

Some nights I have trouble sleeping.  I lay awake, staring at the ceiling.  A few months ago, I experienced one of these nights.  I couldn't sleep, so I decided to tidy and organize my craft supplies.  I found an old box of overhead transparencies.  My school has transferred over to document cameras, rendering the transparency paper pretty useless, so I thought about what I could do with stacks of clear paper.  I used a bunch a few weeks before to make protractors and other math manipulatives for my class, but I still had several dozen.  Then I remembered an art project I had seen years before while I was student teaching: Collage Portraits. I had nothing else to do at 1:30 in the morning, so I decided to create.  This is what I came up with: Here's how I did it: Step 1: Find a picture to use a template.   I don't have any artistic talent for drawing faces.  I can muster a pretty good cartoon stick man, but that's abou...