Year 3 Christmas Village

Year Prep & 1 Rainbow Collage

Students listened to a song called Roy G. Biv by Greg Percy. Each letter of this name is the first letter of a colour of the rainbow. They drew their rainbow colours with oil pastels, and then cut their paper into strips with interesting lines. Lastly they arranged the strips in a puzzle-like collage.

Year 4 Sea Creature Prints on an Underwater Background

First students used tissue paper and diluted white glue to make an underwater collage background. Next they cut out sea creatures from print foam and glued these onto cardboard to make a stamp. Lastly they made prints using acrylic paint for a beautiful effect!

Year 2: Eric Carle-inspired Orange Elephant

First we read Eric Carle's The Artist who Painted a Blue Horse, based on a Franz Marc painting. This book discusses the concept of painting with unusual and unpredictable colours. Students painted a warm colour sheet, to later cut up for their elephant, and a cool colour background sheet. Students cut up the elephant pieces to create their own whimsical orange elephant!

Years 5 & 6 Metallic Shape Collage inspired by Gustav Klimt

Students learned about Austrian painter Gustav Klimt who lived from 1862-1918. Klimt loved to create visual texture with patterns and lines, and also went through a golden phase using a lot of gold leaf in his paintings. Students used metallic paints and texture tools to paint a sheet which they then cut up into shapes and displayed as a collage on a black, lined background.

Year 1 Oil Pastel Abstract Face Collage

Students drew a face with marker and coloured it with oil pastels in primary and secondary colours. Next they cut out 16 even pieces and glued these onto the page to create an abstract collage.

Year 3 Warm Colour Collage Portrait

Students created fun collage portraits in warm colours by cutting mosaic-like pieces of paper to cover the face and using photo print-out facial features. They added hair cut from specialty papers, also in warm colours.

Year 4 Collage Portraits

Students cut out skin-tone coloured paper pieces to create a collage effect and chose fun facial feature photo printouts to complete their faces. Lastly, animal print paper was used to create imaginative hairstyles!

Prep & P/1C: Come Over to My House Collage

Prep A, B, and Prep/1C created colourful seaside houses by cutting, pasting and drawing after listening to Come Over to My House by Theo LeSieg. The story takes children around the world visiting houses in many different countries. We also discussed primary and secondary colours, and students used paper in these colours for their houses.

Year 2 Torn Paper Portraits

We read a fantastic book called All the Colours of the Earth which discusses multiculturalism. Students tore and glued paper to create imaginative portraits!