Drawing self portraits like Frida

In our new topic, we have been learning about Frida Khalo and her legacy. We discovered that she had a near fatal accident at the age of 18. During her recovery, Kahlo took up painting. She devised a clever solution to work around her wounds: her mother hung a mirror above the bed so Kahlo could paint herself while lying down. To experience this themselves, the children stuck their paper under their chairs to see how challenging it is to draw upside down. They all decided it was trickier than it looked and they all had aching arms at the end of the lesson.