Please go to teachers pay teachers to purchase this class and support. Click here for link and purchase and check out my other classes. Also, check the store on my website for a download of the bird collage class. It has all the history of collage, and,even a stencil for the birds.

This week we learned about the art of making collages! Bug collages to be exact. Some students made their own creations, some really did some intricate work from paper. and some just glued sequence and beads to their bug shapes. They turned out cool, and the students loved making them.

I don’t have much as far as instruction, really, it’s cutting, tearing and gluing and being creative. So, have fun with this one! I will take you through the process in the class room in this blog post and below will be examples of work from the students.

What you need: Scissors, magazines, old newspaper, feathers, sequence, beads, fabric scraps, sharpie marker or paint marker, glue, and foam board to glue the pieces on. We had families bring foam boards and we cut them in fourths. For this project we needed just a fourth (about 14x17, or 11x14) of the board. We will be using foam boards later this year for another project.

In my example I covered the background of one of the boards with just ripped up brown grocery bag and then glued the pieces on the boards. I like how this turned out a lot. For another example I just ripped up old art projects and glued them on the foam board and then glued another piece of old art on top and traced my bug on that paper. After sketching out my bug, I started to build up the mid body with torn pieces of magazine paper with a picture of mountains, I did the same for the head of the bug using a picture of trees. Then, I found a map of the area we live in and made that entire piece the body of my bug. OK, I was ambitious, I gave my bug three sets of wings. I used tulle for the first set, then thought metallic wings would be super cool and topped those off with more of the ripped up pieces of a building from a magazine for the top wing/body. Feathers for the antennas. and silver scrap pieces of paper for the legs. I used a large sequence for the eye and pearls inside.

This next one is the one I used the ripped up brown paper as the background. And buttons for eyes, feathers for the antennas. I had an old book I was going to throw away and I used some of the poems to make the wings. Magazines for the body and head. And I added some fabric trip for a tutu kind of feel for my bug.

Below are some of the student’s art work.