Animal Collage

Do you read The Artful Parent?  She is one of my favorite art blog writers.  I have learned a lot from her on how to parent artistically.  She often does collages with her kids using contact paper.  I have wanted to this for some time, but kept forgetting to buy contact paper.  I finally got some the other day and put a piece up for my two year old.  Then I had my other two children scour old magazines for pictures of animals and cut them out.  Grace still isn't the best at saying the animals or animal sounds (she thinks all animals say "moo" for some reason.)  This was a really fun activity for all my children.

I just taped the contact paper to the wall so she had a work surface

We have lots of magazines from wildlife Ohio and the Zoo with our membership so animal pictures were in abundance

It was fun to watch her be entertained by the other kids as they said, "here Grace an elephant" and handed her the next animal

The collage is still hanging in our family room.  She goes up to it every now and then and says the animals she sees.  She has also found other things around the house like stickers and added to her collage as time has gone by.  Together we looked at it and were able to do counting games as well.  I asked her to count how many fish were on it, how many birds, etc.  It is a great way to talk and interact with a two year old.  I am sure glad I saved my old magazines and glad to finally try a collage contact paper art project.