Collage

Collage work is a great way to explore shapes, color and spacial relationships. On this day we taped sticky white contact paper to the table (we did not want them to focus on the glue, but the shapes and space instead) and provided them with paper and foam shapes, rick rack, pom poms and feathers for a variety of shapes and textures. Each child worked in his or her own way - some grouped colors and shapes, others used a play theme (the bridge or bad guy) and GM and FF spent almost an hour working on theirs! We were surprised to see that nearly all of the children spread out the pieces and attempted to space them fairly evenly. FF and NK are still able to look at each collage now hanging in the room and tell us who made it!