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Summer Collage
Introduction:
Celebrate and explore summer with your students by creating this colorful mixed-media collage.
Materials:
- 1 large sheet of butcher paper, craft paper, etc.
- Collage materials (Tissue paper, construction paper, pipe cleaners, yarn, sand, buttons, lace, egg cartons, toilet paper rolls, etc.)
- Finger-paints, crayons, markers, etc.
Directions:
- Brainstorm with your students about summer. Have students come up with a list of things that they identify with summer-- Have them think of colors, textures, objects, insects, plants, food, activities, etc. that they associate with summer.
- Have students pick some things from the list to put on a classroom summer collage mural.
- Provide students with a variety of materials to use when creating items for the mural. Have students draw/paint directly on the large sheet of paper, as well as create cutout shapes and sculptures to hang from the collage. Here are some ideas of things to include:
- Insects - ladybugs (made from construction paper, playdough, etc.), spiders (with egg carton sections and pipe cleaners), butterflies- (Cutout the shape of a butterfly from a piece of paper. Paint one side of the butterfly (for example, the right side). Fold the paper in half while paint is wet and open immediately to create a mirrored effect.
- Plants, Flowers and Trees - Colorful Flowers (made from tissue paper, construction paper, etc. or painted/drawn directly onto the large paper); Fruit trees
- Summer food - Ice cream, fruit (make papiermache fruit and hang from the mural), etc.
- Sky and ground - Create the sky and grass by painting directly onto the mural (finger painting or sponge painting-- dipping sponges in paint and then pressing them onto the paper--work well) and/or use yarn to create the grass, glue sand on ground to represent dirt/beach.
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