After last week’s wonderfully messy spaghetti painting, we calmed things down a bit by creating our own “framed” contact paper winter scene. We began by placing a sheet of contact paper, sticky side up, on a table. We then added blue masking tape around the edges to create a border or frame around the contact paper. This was the canvas the young artists used today to create their winterscape scene.
The children had a choice of adding various pre-cut shapes, a snowman, a tree, etc., to begin their collage. Next they ripped or cut pieces of multi-colored tissue paper and added them to their contact sheet, making a winter sky, a sunset, a snowbank, or anything they imagined.
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Some children got very creative and crumpled small pieces of tissue paper before sticking it on to make multi-colored snowballs or tree ornaments. They also made hats and scarves for their snowmen, which they also decorated with markers.
Other children decided to scratch at the tissue paper after it was stuck, creating a somewhat “snowstorm-like” effect in the middle of the quiet winter scene. The multi-colored tissue paper was placed randomly overlapping, so when the pictures are hung on a window and sunlight streams through them, you can see through the overlapping tissue creating a prism effect.
While the children were in the midst of their creations, they made up stories about their winter scene, at times modifying their stories as they worked on their pictures.
This quiet craft, which required both imagination and concentration on the child’s part, is one that is fun to do with minimal cleanup after. Today, everyone was very proud of their most beautiful winter collages.
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