Collage a House
Why collage is the arts & craft activity your kids need
If your kids are restless inside, whether it's because of bad weather or a global pandemic, you are not alone. It can feel stifling spending so much time inside the same four walls.
But within your four walls, there is a world of possibility! If you have a recycling bin filled with mailers and newspapers and empty cereal boxes and scrap paper, you have the beginning of a collage project.
You can also find the things you need to collage outside of your four walls — dried leaves, grass, feathers, and branches can all be a part of your next craft project!
Young children are blessed with the ability to think divergently. This is what makes collage the perfect activity for stimulating your child’s imagination. Where you see a discarded cereal box, your child might see a door for a high-rise building. As adults, our ability to think divergently is woefully limited compared to our children. Your child is going to see possibilities we cannot even imagine when they start to collage!
Ingredients:
1 pair of scissors
1 glue stick or tape (preferably double sided)
1 sheet of white paper (preferably a bit bigger than 8.5 x 11 in)
5 colored papers of your choice! Think: magazines, newspapers, construction paper, or wrapping paper.
1 Sharpie or Magic Marker
Instructions:
- Cut out five squares from each colored paper to create bases for your house. You can also cut out rectangles to make high-rise buildings.
Cut one square from each colored paper in half diagonally to create large triangular roofs. Cut your triangle in half vertically to create smaller roofs.
Choose a base and roof and place it on your white paper. Apply glue or tape (if you only have tape, grab a medium-sized piece and with the sticky side facing out, tape the sticky side to itself) to the back of the base and roof, and place it on the white paper. Repeat this as many times as you’d like until you have a row of houses. You can then put another row of houses below and in front of the first row to give your collage a sense of depth.
Cut small squares out of your colored paper to make windows and cut rectangles to make doors. Glue or tape your windows and to your houses.
Use your Sharpie or Magic Marker to draw details on your windows and doors. You can even draw people in the windows, put house numbers on the doors, or draw people walking around the buildings. Or you can let your imagination run wild and draw whatever you’d like on the white paper and houses!
Here are some of the collage cities some of our friends made during Creativity Camp!
Images from left to right from: Amy R., Rubna N., and Amsita T.
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