Materials that you will need:
- Sheets of white paper
- Watercolor paints
- A Paint brush
- A Painting tray
- A Glass of water
- A Glue stick
- Scissors
- Markers (for decorations) and,
- A Large sheet of paper
Here is how we created our collage...
We painted a variety of colors (inspired by Eric Carle's book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar) on white sheets of paper. We didn't use any particular painting technique but we made sure that the whole surface of the paper was covered in paint. So this way, we painted five sheets of paper using a variety of paint colors. We left the paper to dry.
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When the painted paper was dried, we traced shapes of butterfly wings, circles and strips, using a pencil crayon. We also used the last two pages of the book for inspiration on what shapes to trace for our collage.
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Then our budding artist cut out the shapes from the painted paper with a pair of scissors.
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We laid our cut-outs and planned where we would place our painted paper cut-outs on the large sheet of paper using the book as a reference (the very last page with the butterfly on it). It is very important to go over the details as it can be confusing for the little ones. I always demonstrate a few steps before I allow my preschooler to go ahead independently. We placed them on the paper without gluing first to understand how to use our cut-out shapes.
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We glued on the shapes like a collage (one-by-one) to help form a butterfly. We started off with the head in the top center of the page. Then we added the wings on each side, one by one. Finally, we added the body of the butterfly and small cut-outs for the details on the butterfly's wings. At the end, we drew two antennas with a marker. You can also add the butterfly's hands/feet for additional details.
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This project turned out to be very beautiful and it's definitely going in our little guy's art portfolio (where I save all his treasured artwork). Thanks for reading our post and I hope you will try this project with your kids/students! We would love to hear how it turned out!
Annie
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