Collage Challenge

PK-1 CHALLENGE 

Flower Power

Materials:

     * round lid (circle)

     * scissors 

     * glue
     * pencil or marker

     * decorated paper - wrapping paper, scrap booking papers, magazine pages
     or prepare/fill up a paper of your own with watercolor and set aside to dry
     * one piece of white paper

Directions:

* set aside the white paper
* start by tracing the circle lid onto a piece of decorated paper
* trace your hand (with help) at least four times - use a marker if it's easier to see the lines
* cut out each of the traced hands
* on the white piece of paper, glue the first hand - fingers pointing upward
* glue down the second hand - fingers pointing downward
* glue the third and fourth - fingers pointing right and left

Bonus: if you'd like more petals for your flower: trace, cut out and glue more hands

* cut out the traced circle
* glue the circle in the middle, where the palms of your hands overlap

2-5 CHALLENGE 

Mythical Creatures

Mythical creatures are imaginary images that stories (like legends) can be written about

Materials:

     * magazine images of figures (whole bodies of people, animals, robots, etc)

        - choose at least ten or more 

     * scissors

     * glue

     * a few sheets of paper (decorated or white)

     

Directions:

There are a couple ways you can do this:
1.
* once you have found your figure images, cut them apart: legs, arms, body, head, etc
* mix and match your figure parts until you have some that you like
* glue them down onto a piece of paper

2.
* once you have found your images, keep one or two of the figures whole
* cut the others apart
* arrange the parts around the whole figure
* once you are happy, glue the pieces down

Bonus: make up a story to go along with your mythical creatures. What do they do? Are they heroes? Where do they live?

6-8 CHALLENGE 

Fantasy World

Materials:

     * magazine images of nouns (people, places, things)

          - choose at least ten different items

     * scissors

     * glue

     * one sheet of paper (or thin cardboard surface)

Directions:

* once you have found the images you'd like to use, cut them out neatly
* on the piece of paper or thin cardboard, arrange your images so that they interact with each other
* try to cover and use the whole paper - you may need more images to do this
* once you are happy with your arrangement, glue down all of your pieces and smooth them down with your hand before leaving to dry

Bonus: add cut out words to your pictures, to give your images a deeper message.