Helen keller biography poster rubric

A box of craft materials is an unclaimed treasure for children. Last night we had to finish making the biography poster for Leah's project on Helen Keller. The poster is to look as much like the person as you can create.

Helen keller biography poster rubric for middle schoolers

You have to cut a hole in the poster so that your face, the face of the presenter, can be the face of the person researched. Simple and easy. Once we created the basic dress body shape we need to find things to make it look neat, not pretty.

I moved our work to the basement so that we could sort through the bin of glitter, buttons, markers and everything else crafty to embellish this poster. Unfortunately that was harder than I expected.

Helen keller biography poster rubric pdf

The girls were so distracted by the mother load of fun things that getting Leah to focus on finding things for the poster was difficult.

They scolded me for hiding this wonderful bin full of fantastic things from them.

They wanted to know why I had kept such perfect crafty supplies to myself. How can you explain to a 6 and 8 year ol