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Art and Kids: Top 5 Tips Making a Collage
Children love creating art. Using recyclables, magazines, knick-knacks, and glue, your child or class can create amazing collage projects. Whether you are an art teacher on a low budget or a parent just looking for something creative to do with your child, making art through collage is a fun, easy, and exciting activity. Old magazines, fabric scraps, yarn, buttons, paperclips, bottles, or even soda caps can be transformed into art. Try some of these fun activities below.
Collage Self-Portrait
Materials: Large paper, crayons or markers, yarn, magazines, string, odds and ends, glue, scissors
Have your child or class draw the outline of a face big in the center of the paper/cardboard. Now, using all of the materials collected, have the kids recreate their face, hair, eyes, nose, mouth, eyebrows, and clothing. Don't forget accessories like glasses, jewelry, and hats. The portrait does not need to be realistic. Encourage creativity over accuracy for some zany portraits.
Ancient Shield
Materials: Large piece of cardboard, glue, cardboard strips, paper clips, soda cap lids, aluminum paper, coins, buttons, any sort of metal objects, scissors, glue, rope/string
First the child must cut the cardboard in a shape suitable for a shield. An adult can help with this, depending on the age of the child. Using all of the recycled materials, decorate the shield. Look up some images of shields online, and decide on whether it will have a crest, designs, symbols, or any unique features. For holding the shield, you can hot glue or staple strips of cardboard to slip the arm in or cut out four holes and thread string through the openings.
Recyclable Bird Feeder
Materials: Large milk or juice cartons, glue, scissors, rope or string, paint or markers
Drain and clean out the carton. Cut a square on the side of the carton, near the bottom edge. Hole punch two holes through the top lids of the carton and thread through rope or heavy string. Now the bird feeder is ready for decorating. Students can paint the carton like a little house using acrylics (which will not wash away) or by using permanent markers. While some small materials can be glued on the feeder for decoration, the birds may pick at decorations. Fill the carton with birdseed and hang on a tree limb in a relatively dry place. Be sure to test the tree limb and string for weight.
Paper Mache' Animal Sculpture
Materials: Boxes, bottles, newspaper or scrap paper, masking or duct tape, bowls, water, glue (lots of it!), scissors, paint, brushes, pipe cleaners, buttons
Paper mache' is messy, but a lot of fun! First, tape the boxes and bottles in the shape of your child's animal. Make sure the body is thick without any really small parts (like thin tails, whiskers, or antennae). Next, cut the newspaper into 1" strips of varied length (4" to 6"). Have the kids dip the strips, one at a time, in watered down glue in bowls and cover the bottle/box sculpture until the entire sculpture is covered. If there are enough strips, apply a second coat of strips. Wait three days to let the paper mache' to dry entirely (or less time if there is a fan on them). When they are dry, use acrylic paint to create the animals. Use pipe cleaners, buttons, string, and other materials to add the finishing touches.
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