Vocabulary Words: cityscape, shape, overlap, fantasy, proportion

Materials: wallpaper scraps cut in 1" squares, colored paper, tempera, photos of students

After reading "Tar Beach" by Faith Ringgold we examined the illustrations. Students were then given a blue paper and asked to paint several buildings to create a cityscape. We then added squares to represent windows. A border was added by gluing down wallpaper squares along the edges. For a finishing touch students took their photo (I made a copy of the yearbook page to use), cut out the head portion, and glued to a white paper. They modeled what they would look like flying, and then drew on a body. After coloring these with markers they cut them out and glued them to their cityscape.