100 Pieces of Me
|25.Jan.2007The 100th day of school is just around the corner. Meredith came home with a note requesting that each student either bring in 100 of any object OR they could do an art project.
Of course we opted for the art project!
Meredith selected one of her favorite pictures of herself and we measured it out and cut it into 100 pieces.
Then, we covered a foam core board with wrapping paper, flipped it over and began to lay out all the pieces in order.
Wanting to give it dimension, we cut out small pieces of the foam core board and glued it to the back of some of the picture pieces, then to the back board.
Meredith is thrilled with it. She’s certain no one else will have done the same thing.
It took about an hour from start to finish. It gave me a few ideas about doing this with some black and white photos and framing it sort of shadow box style (we just printed ours out on regular printer paper for this school project).
15 Comments
jessica
What a great idea! Yall are so creative. When I have kids I’m gonna move nextdoor to you so you can help me be a cool mom!
OMSH
I would LOVE that … then you can boot out the woman that lives on the right. We’re quite certain she sucks on aspirin or lemons every morning.
Nancy
How amazingly creative. I wish I was as creative as you. I’m sure all of Meredith’s class will think it is absolutely the coolest project for 100th day by far.
MMM
Dear heavens, woman! You all are just full of creativity!!! Cute!
Angela
This is such a neat idea! I hope you have pictures od it finished. I’m going to go look on Flickr.
Jill - GlossyVeneer
That’s a great project!
coolbeans
What a cute project. I’d trade creativity for folded laundry anyday!
OMSH
coolbeans – well then you’d fit in right well here. Most of the time the laundry is on the way to being folded (as discussed on your blog) or mildewing away forgotten in the washing machine.
Kristine
That’s really fun! She should hang it in her room when she gets it back (with an A+)!
Rhonda
That is so creative! I love it. I would love to copy this idea soon. What size did you blow the picture up to? Thanks!
Christina G
This is so very cute! Love your idea! Did you just print the photo out on a 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper and then cut it or did you do like 8 x 8 so all the squares would be the same? Thanks!
MJ
This by far is one of the most unique and creative ideas i have seen!! i have been searching for ideas for my daughters project coming up!! thanks to your idea ~ i now know what to do!! :) AWESOME!!! hope she gets and A+!!
Marie
Was wondering what size did u print this ? On paper
OMSH
It was a regular 8 1/2 x 11 laser paper.
Rebecca
Hi – just wanted to thank you for the inspiration for this awesome project – we made it for my daughter’s 100th day of school today and it was a HUGE hit! I found your site through a google search of “100 day projects”! Thanks! :)