Coloring pages, crafts, printables and puzzles for kids from Activity Village

 

Home  |   Coloring Pages  |   Printables |   Puzzles  |   Crafts |   Games  |   Origami  |   Holidays  |   Seasons  |   Themes |   Jigsaws |   Kids Jokes |   Sudoku for Kids
Educational  |   Shop  |   Parenting Library  |  Family Recipes Newsletter  |   AV Baby  |  Videos  |  What's New  |  Blog  |  Subscribe to Activity Village Updates Feed

Summer Collage

Summer collage - boat study in blue
Our boat study in blue

Collage projects are great for all ages and abilities of children, as even the most reluctant or hesitant artist can produce an exciting result. They also work particularly well with mixed aged groups. We've used paint as well as collage materials to produce these wonderful artworks, and chosen to restrict our materials to the blue palette.

Blue collage, sea and sky
Sea and sky in blue

Summer Collage Ideas

We chose to do a study in blue, using a visit to the seaside as inspiration. First we mixed up various shades of blue paint, experimenting by adding small amounts of white. We used the paints to create a background "sky", which we embellished with glitter and stick-on jewels.

We created the details of sea and boat by raiding our craft cupboard for bits and pieces, using fabric, card, craft foam and pipe cleaners. Try making shapes using cutting and tearing techniques for variety, or use hole punches and special edged scissors for a different effect.

More Ideas:

  • Explore the green palette and do a collage of fields, plants, flowers and trees. You could incorporate real leaves and flower petals if you don't mind the collage not lasting too long!
  • Mix your colours to do a garden collage. Create a collage of the garden as seen from a distance, or do a close-up of one border or flower bed. If you have an old seed catalogue or gardening magazine, the children could cut pictures of flowers out of it to add detail.
  • Try a beach scene using real sand, sprinkled on like glitter, or golden caster sugar, for texture. Use yellows and blues. See our sandcastle collage below.
  • Rather than producing a "scene", younger children can cut pictures out of magazines to represent the colours of summer.
  • Older children could try an "emotions" collage, using an abstract design to represent how summer makes them feel.

Sandcastle collage
Sandcastle collage
Bring home some supplies from your next visit to the beach and create this gorgeous sandcastle collage picture to remind you of your outing!


More Painting projects

Back to Summer Crafts for Kids

More Summer Activities

Back to Kids Crafts

ActivityVillage.co.uk Coming Up Soon Don't miss...
Easter
Spring
Earth Day
St George's Day
Mother's Day (US)
Easter
Doodle Fun
Teacher Appreciation Week (US)
Children's Day (Japan)

Easter Doodle Fun
27 printable pages of creative fun for kids!
Easter Doodle Fun NEW Publication!

Sudoku for Kids - 120 Printable Sudoku Puzzles, Available for Instand Download
120 Sudoku Puzzles
designed just for kids!

Download and
print now!

ToDoodlist - Get Stuff Done With A Pencil!


     Love Dogs?

Kiva - loans that change lives

Math Games For Kids Aged 5-13 - Get Better At Math! UK and US versions
Kids Get Better At Math!

Latest Crafts...

Felt chick
Easter crafts Lots NEW!


Spring crafts Lots NEW!


Mother's Day crafts Lots NEW!

Paper plate shamrock
St Patrick's Day crafts Lots NEW!

Hedgehog collage
Hedgehog crafts

Felt monster dangle craft
Monster crafts Lots NEW!

Glitter glue snowflake
Pretty new snowflake crafts Lots NEW!

 

     

A Small Publishing Website   Advertise   Contact Us    Privacy Policy  About Us   Disclaimer   Sudoku for Kids

These pages are property of Activity Village and are for personal, classroom and library use only