Collage art elementary school

Materials: - Construction Paper - Scissors - Glue 1. Discuss key terms: pattern, collage, overlap 2. My students created 4 mini collages (6" x 6") out of construction paper. 3. When finished, all 4 w

This was one of my first lessons of the year. I didn't know this group of 6th graders so it provided a strong opportunity for any ability and type of learner. The students began by doing figure drawing exercises and drawing one another in poses. We also did a class project cutting out colors from magazine and working as a class to create these cool color wheels. I did this with all of my class at the beginning of the year. Students chose a pose to draw the silhouette of. Then they filled in…

Little Artists | Art Education Projects on Instagram: "Some beautiful examples of using tissue paper to collage over at @margaretamiranti 👏🏻💜 they were inspired by our tissue paper collage project but instead worked on white tissue as a surface 🫶🏻 we love how they look displayed on a window, bravo! What a great idea. Using tissue paper to collage is a great alternative to ordinary paper. It’s translucency makes it an exciting material to layer and paste. We have a tutorial for using…

To begin class, we talked about the basics of portrait drawing: your eyes are in the middle of your head, your head is 5 eyes wide, your neck is as wide as your pupils, etc. I had the students make…