How can we represent our identities and understandings of the world we live in?
In learning your own identity and your place in the world, I thought it be best to express that through "collaging with scissors." Making a collage of your favourite television show, your favourite foods, clothing brands, or even just making a memory collage of all those awesome times you had with your friends. For this very purpose of representing my identity I wanted to share that through a friendship collage that I had created with my friends.  |
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Friendship Collage 101
My friends and I decided to make a collage art activity that required cutting out pictures from photo albums and cutting out pictures or words- from magazines, books, newspapers- that had correlated with our past and present memories of each other. We even found necklaces and other little trinkets that were reminders of the great times, and sometimes the embarrassing times. The best part of making the collage was the process of reminiscing vivid memories and the good old days back when we were all in elementary school to high school to university! Our collage was a statement complimenting and expressing our friendship in terms of its sentimental value and meaning.
Making a friendship collage
You will need:
Scissors
Photographs.
Glue
Poster board
Steps:
1. Choose the photographs you want to use for the collage.
2. Cut the poster board to the size you want it to be for the base.
3. Cut your photographs into different shapes .You may want to crop it so there is no background.
4. Cut out letters or words from magazines, fitting them together to make phrases to describe the picture.
5. Apply glue to the back of the picture and phrases and firmly press them down on the base. Continue to do this with each item. Try overlapping some pieces. You can glue small objects [like foam craft items you can buy] over or between the pictures.
6. When you are finished, let the collage dry
My friends and I decided to make a collage art activity that required cutting out pictures from photo albums and cutting out pictures or words- from magazines, books, newspapers- that had correlated with our past and present memories of each other. We even found necklaces and other little trinkets that were reminders of the great times, and sometimes the embarrassing times. The best part of making the collage was the process of reminiscing vivid memories and the good old days back when we were all in elementary school to high school to university! Our collage was a statement complimenting and expressing our friendship in terms of its sentimental value and meaning.
Making a friendship collage
You will need:
Scissors
Photographs.
Glue
Poster board
Steps:
1. Choose the photographs you want to use for the collage.
2. Cut the poster board to the size you want it to be for the base.
3. Cut your photographs into different shapes .You may want to crop it so there is no background.
4. Cut out letters or words from magazines, fitting them together to make phrases to describe the picture.
5. Apply glue to the back of the picture and phrases and firmly press them down on the base. Continue to do this with each item. Try overlapping some pieces. You can glue small objects [like foam craft items you can buy] over or between the pictures.
6. When you are finished, let the collage dry
As an Early Childhood Educator...
Prepare an activity expressing the concept of friendship. Educate children on this notion by allowing children to draw what they view friendship as. Once everyone has drawn a friendship picture, each will cut, and paste the pictures onto a giant board. Do not worry of how neat the pictures are pasted, that's the whole essence of a collage- just pasting different shapes and sizes, overlapping picture after picture. Play some background music to set the mood, and most importantly have fun with it!
Art Word of the Week: Space
Space is the total area defined by the size of the artist's paper or canvas. Within the overall space, you have to determine how you are going to arrange elements to compliment or fill that space. (Schirrmacher & Fox, 2009, p. 368).
For my collage, it demonstrates positive space as the collage is completely filled with vibrant colours and designs of pictures. This is very much random placing of the elements.
References
Schirrmacher, R., & Fox, J. E. (2009). Art & Creative Development for Young Children (6 ed.). Belmont, CA: Delmar.
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