I usually place a few shapes on to encourage my students to come to see and create. Peel the rest off and, using painter’s tape, make a frame to secure the contact paper to the window. Tape that to the window, sticky side facing you. You can use this affiliate link to get the exact ones I use here.Ĭut your contact paper into a rectangle and peel a little of the backing off. You will need a good-sized window, some clear contact paper, painter’s tape, scissors, and acrylic shapes. Let’s not forget that this hands on shape activity also teaches children all about shapes, gives them a chance to manipulate them, and it’s fun! If it can be combined with a hands-on shape activity that works on fine motor skills and is on a vertical surface to help build shoulder strength and encourage proper wrist position? Dude, we just won a lottery because these are essential skill-building activities that we need to make sure we are offering in our preschool classes. Unfortunately taking photographs toward a window is never easy.even with the blind pulled down to try and cut a little of the light out.so the pictures don't do justice to the vibrancy of the colours or how delightful it is when the sun shines through the butterfly's glossy layers of tissue paper.I love bringing color into my classroom, and if that can be combined with a hands on shape activity, even better. They loved doing this project (even down to the smallest things such as sticking on the blu- tac) and spent a long time admiring it once it was completed. In the long grass Zebra-girl placed a caterpillar. They made stalks, leaves and grass from green sugar paper and the children each made a ladybird to go on their own leaf. To complete our collage I cut out large flower shapes for Zebra-girl and Dinosaur-boy and they scrunched and glued on small balls of tissue paper to create colourful, vibrant loveliness. There are cathedral doors leading to our playroom and so we were able to create a 3D collage by sticking some things on the first pane of glass for the foreground and some things on the second for the background. We put our blu- tac in a thin line down the centre of our butterfly so that it would look like the darker centre of the butterfly's body. We stuck our butterflies onto the glass with blu- tac.but you can also thread them with cotton and have them dangling if you have hooks to do so. Step 9:: Place your creations somewhere where you get lots of natural light shining through them. The paper you've created is quite strong and so won't break under the pressure of little hands grasping it tightly as they wield their scissors around it. Step 8:: Once you've traced around your stencil you can cut your shape out. Don't worry overly if it crinkles up your first layer slightly.this will only add to the lovely textures on the final piece. Step 3:: Once you've covered your bag, go over everything with another layer of PVA glue.
The important thing to remember is that although you're not purposely trying to overlap the pieces, you don't want to leave any gaps! Step 2:: Tear up different colours of tissue paper to cover the bag. Step 1:: Use a paintbrush to cover a thin plastic bag with PVA glue. But before we start, eyes left for what our final collage looked like, just so you have an idea of which direction the tutorial is going in!
It was such fun that I've decided to make it into a proper tutorial in case you find yourself craving gluey fun that spans a couple of days. I have loved looking at it, and she very much enjoyed making it, so we decided to create a collage for our glass playroom doors using similar techniques.and a few others, as the project took on a life of its own! We schemed to create a butterfly garden.but it soon became a home to ladybirds, caterpillars and flowers too. Thank you for all your lovely comments on my last post about the industrial quantities of tissue paper we had been purchasing.I hadn't intended to create a crafting cliff-hanger.I was just too tired to write the rest of the post at that moment! Anyway, you may remember that for Mother's Day Zebra-girl had made me a card at school, holding the most beautiful detachable heart for me to hang in my window.
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