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Saturday, February 3, 2018

Paper Mosaic Collages


In retrospect, this is actually a perfect lesson to leave when you need a Substitute Teacher- it's a lesson that keeps the kids engaged and working and requires quite a bit of concentration and bonus: no paint! Grades 4 -6 students started out by watching some videos on Ancient Roman mosaics just to get a feeling of how intricate and time consuming mosaic making is.  

Then they chose either white or black 9 x 12" paper. I encouraged everyone to include about a 1/2 inch border, then draw something simple: like an object or a landscape. 


They used either colored paper or pages from magazines- they cut these into strips, then into squares.
To glue them down, students used white glue and small paintbrushes. 
These were time consuming for sure- the kids that had the most patience did the best and the ones that didn't ended up cutting much larger squares in order to finish faster!




Some finished pieces from Grades 4 - 6:

















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