Making Art: Lesson Plans

Collaborative Collage: Colors and Shapes

Materials: Construction paper, multi-colored yarn, one big piece of white paper, scissors

Preparation: Explain to students what primary, secondary, and complementary colors are (see glossary).  Show them Jessica Stockholders

Activity:  Divide students into groups of 4-5. Select several shapes such as rectangles, circles, triangles, organic shapes, or numbers or letters.  Ask students to make cutout of shapes, using various colors of construction paper.  Some shapes will be very large, others will be small, and others will be medium-sized.  Put a very large sheet of white paper on the floor.  Ask students to take turns, placing shapes on the floor one by one. Also have students use yarn, to represent lines.  Students must use all materials.  Once they are finished, ask students to glue the paper in place.

Discussion:  Have students look at all of the collages, and to describe them.  Ask students to compare and contrast they way the same shapes and colors are used in different settings.  Ask students to describe the colors used, their relationships to each other, and the relations between the shapes and lines.  Ask them to determine where objects are in space in relation to each other.

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