Open Ended Art this week was paper collage. I cut some origami paper into squares for Bear. The night before, I had laid a piece of contact paper, sticky side up, on her art table and done one row of squares as an example of what she was to do. The next morning, Bear surprised me with her fine motor skills. I really wasn't expecting her to be able to get her squares so close together and quite so well lined up. She is only 24 months after all. When she was done - this took all day because she kept running away to do other stuff - I put another piece of contact paper on top. I cute the collage into a nice rectangle and turned it into a placemat. Bear decided her fork needed a placemat as well.
I ran out of contact paper, but I would love to do this again with Bear using her paintings cut into squares.
we love contact paper collages too! i need to do another one sometime I always forget and its been a while!
ReplyDeletethe colors are so bright and pretty!
Wow she did a great job!
ReplyDeleteOrigami squares are a GREAT idea for mosaics!
ReplyDeleteWow, she did do a good job. I like the idea for a placemat too.
ReplyDeleteShe did a really good job. Such a good idea to make a placemat with it too.
ReplyDeleteOrigami paper! Love the idea! I first thought of tissue paper, but we haven't dug that out of the closet yet. Great Job!!
ReplyDeleteWow, she did great! I'm impressed that she just *knew* to put them closely together!
ReplyDeleteThat is a great idea to use the art as a placemat.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very neat idea, and Bear did a great job. I love her new placemat.
ReplyDeleteNow I wish I had used contact paper. She did a great job.
ReplyDeleteThat looks great!
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