Origami - bill folds

http://www.pfadvice.com/2007/02/21/5-great-ways-to-leave-a-tip/


Photogalleries:
http://art.commongate.com/post/show_me_the_moneygami/photos/41490
http://art.commongate.com/post/show_me_the_moneygami

Money Portrait Origami [h/t: Neatorama]

You colour my world

This was created at our local Ontario Early Years Centre.


Materials:

• paper plate
• scissors
• glue
• tissue paper pieces (multiple colours, pieces approx an inch square)
• glitter
• markers
• heart shaped stickers or cut out hearts
  

Instructions:

• have an adult cut a heart shape out of the centre of a paper plate
• write your message on the front of the plate
• turn plate over
• put glue around the heart
• put tissue paper on the glue, overlapping into the heart shape cut out
• add more glue on the tissue paper
• add more tissue paper and glue until the whole has been filled
• put glue on the front of the plate
• put sprinkles on the glue (works best over newspaper or a big rectangular bucket to catch the glitter)
• decorate with heart stickers or use markers

Love Dove

This was created at our local Ontario Early Years Centre.


Materials:

• paper plate
• plastic spoon
• scissors
• glue
• tape
• markers
• heart shaped stickers or cut out hearts
  

Instructions:

• cut a paper plate in half (body and wings)
• cut one third off the remaining half (tail)
• glue the tail onto the back of the wings
• tape the spoon onto the body such that the bowl of the spoon represents the head (the spoon was taped on backwards in the photo above -- artistic licence and all!)
• decorate with stickers for eyes and glue hearts onto body and wings or use markers

Quick collages

An excellent idea found http://hereiam.typepad.com/astitchintime/2007/02/bits_and_pieces.html
via http://kiddley.com/2007/02/02/quick-collages/

This is an example of work that

Materials:

• old magazines
• scissors
• glue
• construction paper for background (optional)

Instructions:

• “They are so simple to do: Just hack up some old unwanted magazines (not the latest issue of Selvedge, or the most recent Boden catalogue, some things are just off-limits!), and re-construct!” - Sarah