"It's me!"

C looked in the mirror and excitedly exclaimed, "It's me!" He talked to E about the different parts of their faces. 

"There's two eyes, nose, mouth, ears, oh and my hair!"

"Yeah, I have two eyes. Here's my mouth."

"I'm drawing my silly face. I need to draw my hair. I made it short, but then it is going to be long." 

"I'm makin' my mouth."

C continued to glance in the mirror and then put his pen to paper. He added a lot of different details, explaining each important part of his face. 

"I have eyes. They are like this."

"ME! My mouth and my nose."

V got right to work and drew her eyes. 

"I need blue for my eyes."

E was excited to show he could draw the his different features. He made two small dots in the middle of his paper and proudly said, "My eyes." 

E continued to work diligently on his self portrait. He would giggle when he would catch his reflection in the mirror. 

After drawing his self portrait he moved onto making his face out of different loose materials presented in front of him. 

"Eyes, nose, and mouth!"

E studied his face intently and would choose materials to represent his different features. He stuck to using the gems and would line them up in a row to show his mouth. E would look at the mirror, place a material, and then point to what he built. 

B took a different approach to making his self portrait. He first made used the loose materials. B explained every part of his self portrait as he  sat. 

"I'm using these [straws] for my body. These [rings] are for my hair. I am trying to make all of my hair!" (Sorry it's upside down...)

 After experimenting with the different materials, B pushed them out of the way and asked to draw himself. He took this very seriously. B drew himself without needing to look up in the mirror. He quietly drew himself from memory. 

"Look, he's holding an invention. It's a cool invention."

The Pine friends took turns exploring their facial features and even other parts of their bodies. While some drew just their faces, others drew their whole bodies. Each child was able to represent themselves in the best of their ability. We will continue to look at how else we can represent ourselves using different materials.