Say WHAT???? Last week I was having my kindergarten through second grade students use my “unscramble the portrait” portion of my collaborative grid Rosa parks poster. I wanted them to practice cutting, gluing and identifying the correct place on the grid where the portrait/puzzle pieces should go all in preperation for Rosa Parks day at the beginning of February. They really had fun with it and wow, it challenged some kids more than I realized it would (especially some tiny kinder kiddos).
One of my second graders started coloring his picture in very strange colors.
I started to think …wow…what a GREAT idea! Why didn’t I think of that??? Well, the answer to that is easy…because kids are WAY smarter and more creative then I can ever dream of being.
The next time I saw this group (a week later) I raved about this boy’s decisions to make his Rosa Parks portrait so colorful. I showed them some of Andy Warhols work and asked them to all color their pictures with “strange, fun, bright” colors.
Yes, they did look at me a little bit strange. But then they got to work. Many kids had already committed to skin tone for the face, so we left it at that but others really got into it! I think their work came out pretty great!!! Andy would be pretty proud, no?
I made a beautiful display of them in my room and can’t wait until my other classes see this. 
My older students (grades 3-5) are actually drawing Rosa Parks and they are as jelous as can be that the “little kids” get to cut and paste the picture!!! ….but they’ll get over it!
This project is a bonus activity in my Rosa Parks collaborative grid project but I am including it HERE on my blog for my blog readers for free! You can also click on the images below to grab a copy.
The steps are pretty straight forward…
1. Cut out the pieces.
2. Place them in the correct space (I have included a version of the grid for kinders that has the letter and number actually written in the spaces). 
3. Cut out the final portrait.
4. Color Rosa Parks with bright “pop art” colors! 
This freebie also includes an unscramble the drawing of Rosa Parks for older students where kids can draw the correct shapes in the grid to show a beautiful drawing of Rosa Parks! 
Last but not least, if you are looking for soemthing that will really WOW your class then you might like the full lesson on Rosa Parks. You can view it HERE. 
Thanks for reading and for making art with your students!
Jenny K.