National Craft Month: Easy Outer Space Collage Using Mixed Media

National Craft Month is here! Make a beautiful outer space collage with your kids using mixed media.

With a wide range of arts and crafts to choose from, the National Craft Month celebrates all media forms.

It's a great time for kids to explore their creativity and artistic passion with everything from colored papers and paints to construction boards and crayons!

Celebrate the National Craft Month at the Creativity School!

Let’s celebrate and enjoy crafting with your kids this National Craft Month!

Our award-winning artists give away free LIVE art classes from the Creativity School.

Create beautiful crafts like collages, animations, pop up cards, and much more!

What is National Craft Month?

The National Craft Month was initiated by the Craft and Hobby Association back in 1994. It was intended to help people of all ages find and discover the passion for crafting.

For the whole month of March, celebrating the National Craft Month is all about learning new crafts, finding a new artsy hobby, and relearning their creative ‘selves’.

Artists, crafters, and even families get together to do crafts and get their hand’s dirty snipping, sticking, sewing, cutting, pasting, coloring, collaging, painting – and a lot more!

Mixed Media Art

In arts and crafts, mediums are the types of tools that we use to make art. We can use watercolor or paints, markers, crayons and many more.

In doing collages, it means that we’ll use more than one medium. We will be using scissors, glue, lots of papers, crayons, markers, and anything that you can add to your art.

Using more than one type of tool for your artwork is called mixed media art.

And for this activity, we will not only be collage artists, but mixed media artists!

Ready. Start. Craft!

Materials:

Scraps of paper
Glue stick
Scissors
Coloring materials (crayons, markers, colored pencils)
Dark piece of construction paper (black, dark blue, dark green)
White crayon

Instructions:

Step 1. Make your own patterned paper by scribbling.

This scribbled paper will be our planets later.

Step 2. Make white scribbles on your dark paper. This will be our background.

Step 3. Cut out circles for the planets on your patterned paper.

To make a ring, cut an oval shape first. Then, snip on one side then cut around the inside of the oval.

Step 4. Paste your planet cutouts on the dark paper.

Step 5. Add decorations! Bang!

You have your own cool version of outer space!

Tips for art-mazing success

Collage arts require the use of scissors, so TAKE EXTRA CARE while handling them, or seek the supervision of an adult.
If you want to use a light-colored piece of paper for the background, use dark crayons instead for the scribbles.
Make sure that there’s something underneath the paper when you scribble so you won’t accidentally draw on your kitchen table, or drawing table.
Explore different types of media! You can use ribbons, kind-friendly pins, glitters, and a lot more!

Check out some outer space explorations by our young artists at the Creativity School.

Did you have fun exploring outer space? Share with us your thoughts in the comment section below.

Hop on to Creativity School for more fun and creative art activities this National Craft Month!!

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