Friday, October 14, 2011

Cityscape collage


I really enjoyed the other Starry Night project.  We started by cutting strips, curves or circles of tissue paper.  We used a variety of colors.  Next, we took a sheet of 12 x 18 construction paper (color of your choice) and placed our strips of tissue paper on it.  Then we took a type of paste and “painted” the strips onto the construction paper.  The next step was to cut out some type of city scape from black construction paper.  I chose to cut out a barn and fence line.  After it is cut out you need to glue it onto the other prepared construction paper.  Once everything is dry, use a metallic sharpie or white oil pastel to draw swirls and wavy lines in the background.  Also, draw simple lines one the city scape too.  If I would have made a city scape, I would have drawn windows on it with the sharpie, but since I drew a barn and fence, I just made simple lines on them representing the grain in the wood.

Extension activity: This project could be used with any grades from third to seventh.  The project would just be a little more complex with older grade levels.  If using this project in the science content area, the student could cut out a silhouette of an animal and use that instead of a city scape.  If used in reading, the student could cut out a silhouette of the main part of the story they are reading.

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