🎨 My Family Portrait
El Retrato de Mi Familia
🎨 Art
VA.K.1WL.K.1
Objective: Child draws self and family members, adding details like faces, hair, and clothing while naming family words and colors in Spanish.
🧺 Materials
- paper
- crayons or markers
- a family photo (optional)
📋 Instructions (parent)
- Lay out paper and crayons and tell your child you are going to draw a portrait of the whole family together.
- Start with your child drawing themselves: a face, eyes, hair, and a favorite color of clothes.
- Add one family member at a time, talking about each person's hair color and eye color in Spanish.
- Encourage little details: a smile, a pet, the sun, a house in the background.
- When finished, have your child point to each person and say who they are in Spanish.
- Hang the portrait somewhere everyone can see it.
➕ Extension ideas
- Draw the family doing a favorite activity together, like eating dinner or going to the park.
- Add grandparents, cousins, or pets and label each one with a sticky note.
🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish
Español
Hoy vamos a dibujar a toda nuestra familia. Primero dibújate tú: tus ojos, tu pelo y tu ropa favorita. ¿De qué color quieres tu camisa? Ahora dibujemos a mamá, a papá y a todos los que quieras. ¡Qué bonito retrato de familia!
💬 Conversation prompts
- ¿De qué color es tu pelo?
- ¿A quién vas a dibujar ahora?
- ¿De qué color son los ojos de mamá?
- ¿Quién es el más alto de la familia?
- ¿Qué le falta a tu dibujo, una sonrisa o un sol?
🔑 Vocabulary
- familia — family
- dibujar — to draw
- cara — face
- pelo — hair
- ojos — eyes
- rojo — red
- amarillo — yellow
Other ways to do it
⚡ 5-minute version
Just draw yourself and say your eye color and hair color in Spanish.
🚗 Car version
Take turns describing each family member in Spanish: hair color, eye color, and one favorite thing.
😴 No-energy version
Look at a family photo together and name each person and their colors in Spanish.
🎯 California standards covered
| VA.K.1 | Looking at Art “I can look at art and talk about the colors, lines, and shapes I see.” |
| WL.K.1 | Exploring Spanish “I can say hello, count, and name colors in Spanish.” |