Frankenkids Cubist Collage

Mix Frankenstein with computer illustrated eye drawings and kids can have fun making some very silly faces.  1. Those on a budget could use ...

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Marbled Construction Paper Pumpkin

Thanks to this art teacher’s wonderful posting over on Flickr, I’m going to have my students do a one day version of it with this new Creat...

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Butterfly Leaves

This project was inspired by Lois Ehlert’s beautiful book   “Leaf Man” . A little technology, namely stock photography and a color printer, ...

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Magazine Circles of Color

I started this page with the idea of repeating circles. Students could fill in solid circles with colors that appeared in the cut out photos...

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Tissue Paper Leaves

Fall leaves are made of lots of fun curvy shapes, so I had my art journal students trace them today to make a tissue paper collage of maple,...

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Sailboat Collage Journal Page

I like to encourage kids to make layered pages in their art journals. Rather than writing NEXT to their pictures, it's more fun to write...

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Torn Magazine Duck Collage

Magazine pages are great to collage with. The colors are bright, and they have a built-in shine. My step-by-step instructions for this duck ...

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Magazine Color Study

I started this page with the idea of repeating circles, and just played around from there. I think it could be a good exercise in harmony as...

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“My Favorite” Collage

This could be called “My Favorite” page, which could include food, pets, flowers, clothes ... anything that is easy to find in your averag...

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Warm and Cool Collage

The very first color theory lesson that students as young as 1st grade can learn is which colors are considered “warm” and which are “cool”....

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Collage Name Card

Lately I’ve been inspired by scrapbook artists and the layered-looking collages they often create. This Collage Name Card to let the student...

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Fruit Face

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian artist from the 1500s who spent years working as an official court painter. He developed a style of compo...

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Magazine Collage Bird

Sometimes old projects can kind of morph into new ones, either by choice or necessity. In this case I ran out of boxes to do my “Recycle Roo...

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California Collage

My experience with collage is that students enjoy them, but often have trouble filling a paper in one class session. I thought that if they ...

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Art Journal: Circles of Color

This could be a lesson in harmony as the filled in colored circles could be made to match the magazine circles next to them. 1. I used a sp...

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Ocean Collage Art Journal Page

 Save your nature magazines, or anything that has photos of water in it to make this fun collage page. 1. Students cut out enough swatches o...

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Recycled Rooster

Save all those clean packing boxes, such as for cereal and pasta, and you can make some really colorful collage roosters. For a lead in stor...

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Watercolor Collage

I love what torn edges do for a project, even though most students seem resistant to it. I think it maybe just takes time to trust that “hap...

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“Sweet” Mother’s Day Card

Cindy Littlefield posted this great cupcake card here first , but I needed to simplify it so it could be made in one class session. I also p...

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Sarah’s Fish Journal Page

This is another reason why I love kids art. Today a first grader made her own version of my “One Fish” journal project posted below. I must ...

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