Bug Collage Project · Art Projects for Kids

Bug Collage Projection

Save your onetime nutrient magazines for this bug collage projection. The shiny and colorful fruit, for example, has a whole new expect when viewed equally problems parts.

Collage is one of those areas of art that's easy to overlook, simply really has then much to offer. Aside from linking to some great collage artists of the past (hello Romare Bearden) it can give students that are not so skillful at cartoon and painting a make new creative outlet. All suddenly, their creativity can come from choices of what images to put together, which is so unlike than seeing how well they can capture something with lines or paint.

Merely rather than leaving collage projects open ended, I institute that a narrower task worked well with most students and classrooms. Having a chore of searching for fun textures for a bug, for instance, especially with something as seemingly odd as food images, sets everyone upwards for some unusual combinations.

Older students are advised to brand their own issues shapes, using folding to make symmetrical shapes, and younger ones tin use the template that is included in the download shared beneath. The issues shapes have names on them so they tin can exist learning about the belly and thorax and wings while they are creating. I'd call that a win/win past whatsoever standards.

Notation: This project is included in my upcoming and updated "Elements of Art" ebook. Consider it a free preview!