A collage is a picture you make by cutting or tearing pieces of paper and other materials and gluing them down. You can use colored paper, magazine pictures, fabric, and more. Cutting and pasting lets you arrange pieces in different ways before you glue, so you can try many ideas!
Start with tearing paper before introducing scissors. Provide child-safe scissors, glue sticks, and a variety of papers (colored, patterned, textured). Show how to cut simple shapes. Let children arrange pieces before gluing. Display finished collages proudly.
A collage is a special kind of art you make by gluing pieces of things onto paper or cardboard. You can use colored paper, newspaper, magazine pictures, fabric, ribbon, and almost anything flat that you can stick down. The word collage comes from a French word that means "to glue."
To make a collage, you cut or tear your materials into pieces. If you use scissors, you can cut shapes like circles, squares, or free-form blobs. If you tear paper with your hands, you get soft, fuzzy edges that look interesting and textured. Both ways are great! Then you arrange your pieces on a background paper, moving them around until you like how it looks. When you are happy, you glue them down.
Collage is special because you can change your mind. Before you glue, you can try putting a piece here or there. You can overlap pieces. You can build layers. This is different from drawing, where once you make a mark it stays. Collage gives you the freedom to experiment and rearrange.
A famous artist named Henri Matisse made some of his most loved art using collage. He called it "painting with scissors." He cut bright shapes out of painted paper and arranged them into beautiful designs. So when you pick up your scissors and glue stick, know that you are doing something real artists do. Your collage is a work of art!
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