ForKids is asking for “tiny found objects” that will be used in a children’s workshop led by a world-renowned artist on Thursday at the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts.

Hanoch Piven — an internationally celebrated Israeli artist best known for his celebrity caricatures published in Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Time and elsewhere — will show the ForKids children and volunteers how to create their own self-portraits using ordinary, everyday objects.

The community can support this workshop by gathering their own “tiny found objects” and dropping them off at any ForKids location through the close of business on Wednesday. Feathers, broken toys, seashells, old photos, nuts and bolts and buttons and whatever else that’s small yet creatively useful are needed.

“We’re just going for people’s small discarded junk that you’d think you would never need for anything else,” said spokeswoman Becky Lyle Pinkard.

ForKids is one of the largest providers for homeless families in Virginia, according to the organization’s website, and the art created in the workshop will be displayed for the first time at the Nov. 8 grand opening of the ForKids Suffolk Regional Services Center on West Constance Road, where they will remain indefinitely in the lobby.

“We are thrilled that our children will have the experience of creating self-portraits with an artist of Mr. Piven’s caliber,” ForKids Chief Executive Officer Thaler McCormick stated in the press release. “His emphasis on creativity, art and play in education will not only be meaningful for the children but for our education team as well. We are most grateful for this opportunity.”

Visit forkidsva.org or call 622-6400 for more information.