Looking for a way to make your school photo look truly unique? Create your own one-of-a-kind picture frame to give as a gift or display at home.

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  Measure your school picture. With Crayola® Scissors, cut heavy paper or cardboard to go on the back of your picture. Leave a wide border all around your photo so you can make a frame around it.

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  Mount your picture in the middle of the backing with a Crayola Glue Stick. If you wish, decorate the area closest to your photo with Crayola Crayons.

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  Use different colors of Crayola Model Magic to form a border around your picture. Damp Model Magic sticks to itself, so just press the sections together. You could add borders around the edges of the frame. You might want to decorate it with small replicas of sports equipment, music notes, or other symbols of your talents.

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  To write words or numerals, roll a contrasting color of Model Magic into snakes. Spell your name, school name, or the year, for example. Gently press them on your damp frame. Air-dry the frame.

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  Use Crayola School Glue to attach the frame to your mounted photo. Air-dry the frame. It’s ready to wrap as a gift—or to keep as a memory of your school year.

Standards

• LA: Read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grade level text complexity band independently and proficiently.
• LA: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
• LA: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade level topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
• LA: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
• MATH: Know relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units including km, m, cm, kg, g; lb, z; l, ml; hr, min, sec. Within a single system of measurement, express measurements in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit.
• SS: Describe ways in which language, stories, folktales, music, and artistic creations serve as expressions of culture and influence behavior of people living in a particular culture.
• SS: Identify roles as learned behavior patterns in groups situations such as student, family member, peer play group member, or club member.
• VA: Use different media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories.
• VA: Use visual structures of art to communicate ideas.

Adaptations

• Have available in the classroom a wide range of biographies appropriate for your grade level.
• Encourage students to read a self-selected biography of a famous person. Organize research on selected personality into a summary paragraph. Draw a portrait of personality and place it in a student-created frame. Include on the frame sculpted pieces that represent the important aspect of that person's life.
• Students work in teams of two. Sketch a portrait of your teammate. Using student-created questions, interview teammate. Use information gathered during the interview to create a frame representing the interests of the teammate. Sketch a portrait of your teammate using Crayola Colored Pencils and place it in the original frame. Display it in the classroom.