Self Portrait, Photography and Collage

I am an art teacher in an elementary school and do a lot of projects with my kids that involve photographs. Often I will take a portrait of a student , then, cut their face out. The face will serve as the basis for their activity. Sometimes their theme is friendship, sometimes a season is explored, sometimes another artist's style is explored in their work. (I will include samples of some of these progects at the end of this Instructable)
After the faces are removed from the photograph, I end up with a pile of faceless photos. It kills me to throw away their little bodies so I got this idea to put my face in place of their missing one!
I created this crazy collection of self portraits. The process is fun and simple!

an assortment of photos
a pair of scissors
and a glue stick

Remove the faces from your photographs buy carefully cutting out with the scissors. Then choose the faceless photo that you will use to create your self portrait. 

Figure out which photo of yourself works best with the faceless photo that you are working with.
Using the glue stick put glue on the back of the faceless photo and place over your portrait.

Trim off any wayward edges.

Done

I have tons of these but here are a few of my favorites. 

We talked about Freda Kahlo's self portraits and how she would always include images that were special  in her paintings. Using their own photograph the students did a self portrait in the "style" of Freda Kahlo. 

Often Friendship is the theme in the projects we do. This one was If you were my friend I would teach you to swim. 

If you were my friend I would read you a bedtime story.

With my 3 year olds, they use a photo transfer on fabric and paint their own section of a Friendship quilt.

In first grade we make painted friendship paper dolls.

Spring flowers

Winter snow man. With my 4 year olds (This is me, not a 4 year old) I made photos of them wearing funny hats which we used for the heads of their winter snow man paintings. They were awesome!

Fall we painted ourselves as scare crows.

Dancing fairies and elves.....