Portraits in the Newspaper

 The students created original collage portraits using newspaper. They were told to cut, tear, curl, paint, glue in what ever way they wanted to create a portrait (not necessarily a self portrait!) They turned out fantastic. And you wouldn't believe how QUIET it was for 3 hours. They were so into this!

Artist Focus: Eric Carle

We took pieces of typing paper and did big swashes of color. Then we took old credit cards and cut notches in the edges so we could 'comb' over the wet paint and create designs. Then we cut out our collage butterflies using all the different vibrant pages of colors. The results were fantastic. We may have to do this again! We had a blast! (If we do it again I will have them paint the backgrounds too!) Enjoy this new technique and try some at home. Post some of your own!!