Torn Paper Collage
Here's What To Do
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Explain to your child that you're going to make a collage, which is a picture made from a bunch of small pieces.
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Give your child a few pieces of differently-colored paper or tissue paper.
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Demonstrate tearing the sheets into smaller pieces, and encourage your child to tear their own pieces.
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Give your child paper and a glue stick to create a collage with the torn pieces.
Put PEER Into Action
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Pause:
- Sit at your art station, and take a deep breath in and out together.
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Engage:
- "Watch how I hold the paper with both hands, and then rip in opposite directions. Can you try?"
- "Can you take all your paper pieces, and make a new picture with them? Glue the pieces to this paper here."
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Encourage:
- If your child is stuck, prompt them by asking, “Can you tear big and small pieces of paper?" or "Could you try putting the pieces close together or far apart, or on top of each other?"
- Compliment your child's efforts, like, "You worked so hard to tear all the pieces and recombine them to make new art!"
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Reflect:
- Ask your child to tell you about their collage. What did they make, and how did they do it?
Not quite ready?
Tear the paper for your child. Ask them where to place each piece, and glue it for them.
Ready for more?
Ask your child to make a picture of something (animal, flower, etc.) with a torn paper collage.
As your child masters this skill...
They will try a new artistic technique after an adult demonstrates it for them.
Torn Paper Collage by Destiny & D'yior
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