Back to school arts and crafts with mixed media using paint and collage .
The activity I am going to suggest now is a mixed media one depicting the children’s summer vacation and actually has 3 parts to it.
Materials: Plain white paper, markers, crayons, paint in colors of green, brown, tan, 2 shades of blue, gray. Paintbrushes and water, large manila tag board, glue, scissors.
Title of artwork
What I did on my summer vacation
Part 1:
- Discuss with the children or child what some of the things they did on their vacation
- Try to narrow them down to one experience that they would like to remember
- Out of that experience narrow them down to what they remember about it.
- Give the children plain white paper and with markers and crayons let them draw many of the things they remember. You can use a few sheets of paper as they are going to be cutting out these pictures.
- After they have finished with their people, bicycles, animals, boats, suns etc., give them scissors and have them cut out these pictures and put them in a special place.
Part 2:
- Give children a large pieces of manila tag board, either white or manila colored. Do not work on small pieces as they have no room to maneuver.
- Depending on what scene they have decided to do will depend on what colors of paint you will give them. The basic idea here is to paint a background for their pictures. If they were at a beach they will be making either sand, water and sky or just sand and sky etc. If they are doing a park they may want green and blue. Discuss with them what colors they think they will need.
- Instruct them to divide their paper either in 1/2 of more unevenly depending on how much stuff they made for the ground or the sky.
- Let them paint their ground and their sky and allow paintings to dry.
Part 3:
- When painting is dry they can take all of their pieces of artwork that they drew and cut out, arrange them on their background and when ready, paste them in the places that are most pleasing to them.
- After they are done, you can give them some black markers and have them add in with the markers any additional thing they wold need to complete their artwork.
When they are done, you can take an index card, write the title of their artwork with their name in the corner and put in the corner of the art.
Truly a mixed media piece of art work.
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