Collage is a superb way to combine a lot of images people enjoy seeing. It takes the ordinary and forces you to look at things from a new perspective. Collage can be very thought provoking. Collage can combine paint with papers, boards with wire, and silk with cotton. It produces portraits, still lifes, landscapes, abstracts, architecture, and assemblages.
Collage is a wonderful way to get the creative juices flowing.
It is a step beyond our doodling on the margins of our school assignments, and allows us to create dynamic visual statements. You will need to have an ironing cloth and iron to complete the placemat option. Gather the two waxed tissue sheets and baggy full of tissue shapes. Put a piece of paper under one of the waxed tissue sheets. Have your student examine their tissue shape variety.