All About Me posters are a great way to get to know your students, as well as get them to think about their own self-identity and get to know one another. This makes it much easier for them to make friends as they gain confidence – and they’re a great class project!
So, if you are thinking about having your class make All About me posters, here are some great ideas for you to try out!
What Information To Include
Before you decide on how you want the All About Me posters to look, it’s a good idea to think about what information you want to ask your students to include on their posters.
It’s a good idea to avoid asking any personal questions like addresses or family members – instead focus on the student’s personality and favorite things.
Here are some ideas:
Age
Birthday
Favorite Color
Favorite Food
Favorite Subject
Favorite Sport
Words That Best Describe Them
Hair Color
Eye Color
To really get them thinking, ask them what they want to do when they grow up and why – do they want to become a doctor? Do they want to travel to lots of different places? Have lots of pets?
Once this task is done, it’s time to make the All About Me posters – so check out the options below and try out your favorites!
Self-Portraits Books
This idea has your students make self-portraits of themselves and turns them into books. They can fold their self-portrait to one side and read all the information about themselves they have written inside.
This 3D All About Me poster is a fun arts and crafts project for your students to work on and you can also help them out by making the face templates in advance.
This depends on just how old your students are and how handy they are with scissors!
Poster Hats
This All About Me idea doubles the poster as a fun paper hat for your students to wear around the classroom.
You will need to print off the template and your students won’t be able to do much to it outside of filling in the blanks, drawing a self-portrait, and a little bit of coloring.
However, once the hats are done, they’re easy to wrap around your student’s heads and they can then start introducing themselves to one another.
It’s a great ice-breaker when you have a lot of students who are new to the class – and once the activity is over, you can use them to decorate the walls as conventional posters!
Mixed Media All About Me Posters
All About Me posters are a great crafts project to try out with your students, so why not have them make mixed-media self-portraits for fun?
You can get them to use lots of different materials including paint, pipe cleaners, wool, tissue paper, googly eyes, popsicle sticks, glitter, stickers, and so much more!
It’s a fun project that will get them to express themselves creatively and you can tell a lot about a student by what materials they choose to use!
Of course, underneath you can add an All About Me sheet filled with their questions and answers. This will go great with their self-portraits!
Add Photos
A lot of classic All About Me posters use self-portraits drawn by the kids themselves. However, you can also add photographs of your students too!
Ask them to bring in photographs from home to add to their All About Me posters.
These don’t just have to be classic portrait pictures, but also photographs of their pets, of them doing their favorite activities, eating their favorite food, going to their favorite places, and more!
Of course, not all students will have spare photographs to bring in – but if you have a camera, you can take some pictures yourself to stick onto the posters!
Numbers Activity
This All About Me poster idea uses numbers to help turn this crafty project into a math one too! It takes important numbers in each student’s life (such as their birthday, their age, and how many pets they own) and hides them behind sticky notes with mathematical equations written on them.
The answer to the equation equals the number underneath.
This poster idea also doubles as a great group exercise. You can pull up a poster and as the class works through the equations, they can then guess who the poster belongs to!
Of course, this means that this All About Me poster idea is better suited for older students than younger ones.
Rainbow All About Me Poster
For much younger children, this rainbow-themed All About Me poster is much easier to do. It’s also interactive as you can flip the colored strips of paper over to read the information on them.
Each strip has a question on one side, and the child’s answer on the other.
It’s a great craft project plus it’s super colorful and easier for younger children to do on their own. You can also add some extra mixed media to give it texture – like cotton wool for the cloud or colorful wool around the edge!
Final Thoughts
So, those were some great ideas for All About Me posters. These types of posters are a great activity to do with your students and there are lots of fun ways you can make them.
Take a look at the ideas above, pick out your favorite, and give them a try with your class!
Hi, my name is Helena Waters and I was a teacher for 40 years before retiring last year.
During my time as a teacher I dedicated the majority of it to making classrooms as fun as possible, with educational parties, fun activities, and low cost entertainment that made the children excited about learning.
I taught children of all ages, from preschoolers to high school students. Now, with the pandemic having uprooted everything that children once knew about school and learning, I think that the need for my ideas is bigger than ever.
That is why I created School Sparks, a place in which I can write down and share all of my ideas on how to get students excited about going to school again. I hope that you’ll find some useful within a school setting, even at home too!
