Collage

Our second week of summer session was based on collage and books that are illustrated through collage.  Eric Carle, Leo Lionni, Lois Ehlert, etc.

Here are some of the art projects we did in the afternoon.

Hungry Caterpillar fingerprint paintings. These are mini canvases on mini easels.  I used Biolocolor as paint.  The children used their fingers to make the caterpillars, then when they were dry they added the details with sharpie.

Spray art.  Mister Seahorse was cut out and the children sprayed him with watercolors.  This was a very popular activity and great to strengthen their finger muscles.  It was also very messy! 

White crayon resist rooster, from Rooster's Off to See the World by Eric Carle.

Color changing chameleon.  Kids painted paper plates using different colors.  Then we placed another plate on top with chameleon cut out and fastened it in the middle.  When you turn the plate the chameleon changes colors.

 Boat collage.  This was a multi step process.  But the outcome was beautiful!

First we painted large pieces of paper blues and green using different items, scrapers, brushes, anything we found.

Then we ripper them on the long side.

The next day we painted the background and collaged the boat whith shells.

The background was painted with yellow and orange watercolors.

The following day we assembled our collages.  We put the sea down first then placed the boats, sails, and moon.  We talked about the different parts of the boat as we glued it down.  It would be fun to get more words and dictate a story about were they were sailing.