Biography Bottles
Each student will need the following supplies to create their biography bottles:
 One 2 liter bottle (sand or dirt to weight it down) for the body
 One 3” Styrofoam ball for the head
 Various arts and crafts materials to dress and decorate your biography bottle to
represent your famous person
 Yarn or “hair” like material
Fill your 2-liter bottle with a cup of sand/gravel/dirt – something to weight the bottle. You will
place the Styrofoam ball on the top of the bottle. Then you will decorate your bottle to
represent your famous person.
Next you will create a biography card (index card that I will provide). The card must include:
Your person’s name , Date of Birth , Paragraph: that describes the person’s achievements,
(why they are famous or well known in history), Interesting facts about your person, Resources
used: You should have read about your person from at least 2 resources. For each resource
you must include book title, author, illustrator, and publisher. If you used other resources like
the internet in addition to your books, please ask me for help on how to document these on
your index card.
Biography Bottle Examples:
Colonel Custer
Sacagawea