Simple Beauty … Magazine Art Experiences

 

I was doing some searching a long time ago and came across a home decor website. This site suggested that you use shredded magazine pages to create a feature wall in a toilet. I don’t remember the name of the site or I would give it the credit it deserves. The author had decorated their bathroom wall by pasting on these small strips of magazine pages.

I used this idea in the classroom. I shredded magazine pages and then used them with two year olds to make collages! We found that blue glue sticks were the best because the children could see where their glue was before they tried to stick on the strips.

In my current job, we used coloured paper to make rainbow collages ~ the children explored colour and pattern using these fine strips of paper.

I have since introduced my current group of children to the magazine pages. I was careful to choose images that had interesting patterns and colours. They loved it. I will continue to explore this with them and see what it is they can create!

This activity is brilliant because its cheap, its easy, its readily accessible, allows children to be creative and explore colour, pattern, and shape in their own way. It allows them to classify as well as experiment with weaving or ripping or collage  …  the possibilitie are endless.