Autumn collage

Materials:

• construction paper
• white glue
• things found on the ground at Autumn (leaves, acorns, flowers etc)
  

Instructions:

• Send your youngster out to collect things specific to Autumn (leaves, acorns, flowers etc)
• For pre-schoolers, have the child tell the adult where on the construction paper they'd like to glue items down. Have the adult apply the glue to the paper and the child place the item on the glue.
• For older children, have them glue items to the paper as they see fit.
  

Paper mosaics

Does the crafter in your house hate throwing away all the little scraps of coloured paper? Not sure what to do with it all? Just glue it all down!

Materials:

• colouring sheet (or draw something free-hand)
• glue
• lots of small pieces of paper of different colours (larger pieces for younger kids, smaller pieces for kids with more patience and hand-eye co-ordination)
  

Instructions:

• apply glue to colouring sheet
• apply scrap pieces of paper to glued area in colouring sheet
  

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House collage

This was created at our local Ontario Early Years Centre.

Materials:

• a sheet of paper cut like the shape of a house
• pieces of coloured construction paper cut into squares, rectangles, circles
• optional: cut out pictures from magazines (doors, windows etc) or stickers
• glue stick or white glue

Instructions:

• put house shaped paper down
• apply glue and cut shapes / pictures to decorate the house

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