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Draft Folder Clean UP: Engaging one day projects week! Collage Portraits and Collage Heads

This post was originally started 6/14/2014

Juxtaposition is a 21st century principle of design that I LOOOOOOOOVE!

Collage Portraits is a fun one day lesson that always gains positive results.  This lesson can be as intense or as easy as you wish.  I like to do it as a sketchbook lesson, or a super end of year project.

that's as far as a got! 

It is a great lesson!  Take digital photos of the kids, print in black and white, and have them cut them out.  Glue the kid to the center of a plain paper and make a few more copies.  Then let the kids add background, or things to their picture etc... This was perfect at the art studio because I had very few students and access to my laser printer/copier immediately.  It wouldn't work so hot in a large class.

Another variation of this that is fun - Cut out a bunch of heads out of a magazine.  Photocopy them.  Have kids cut out the copies of the heads they like and glue them down.  Next, finish the picture.  In can be with a body, or something else!  Sometimes the randomness of this is AMAZING!

Well that took a disturbing turn.

She looks so innocent!!

Animals with human bodies. Three free pages of odd brainstorming fun.

I do not know why you wouldn't want a collection of animals with human bodies.  So here you go.  I used these as examples in a lesson on juxtaposition.  I don't know where they originally came from, but they are awesome.

Juxtaposed Collage Cityscapes - Successful third grade sketchbook lesson with slideshow!

I am in the middle of a unit on Chicago Cityscapes with my third graders.  We finished up our sketchbook project, "Juxtaposed Collage Cityscape," and I am super excited about their success!

To start, students cut out photos and drawings of buildings in Chicago.  They practiced overlapping and constructing a cityscape.  Next, we watched and discussed my little slideshow called "Juxtaposed Cityscapes."  Kids were then asked to draw something in their cityscape, that maybe wouldn't normally be there.
Next, students traced their drawn images with metallic markers, and used opaque paint markers to color.  If time allotted, students colored their buildings with color sticks.