Category Archives: Week 13 – Seminar Project: Cloud Collage

There is a playground outside of our classroom. I often run around with the kids and sometimes, we lay on the ground to look at the sky. Most of this week, I kept seeing cloudless skies, but on Wednesday, I saw a phenomenal one that I couldn’t get out of my mind. I personally love patterns, and this was a dream one. The sky was almost this exact shade, with flat clouds completely aligned in a staggered but uniform. way. It was the most beautiful sky I have seen in a long time. I noticed that it was only contained partially over our schoolyard, which I found so interesting. I would ask students to tell me what type of clouds they are used to seeing, and what materials they’ve seen that remind them of clouds, and if these can be used for creating their own collage. I used blue construction paper, and cut it into strips, and placed them in staggered formation, to coincide with the clouds. That’s how i “saw” it in my mind. Everything in its place..but not quite.

Week 13 – Assignment #1: cloud

`This image was supposed to be the sunset with a orange sky in the back of the building and I use these different type of pencils that I smug together to created this light orange sky mix with the blue. The clouds I use tissues and I try to color it with a dark blue pencils. The clouds in the image was shown as all the clouds was all together while they was trails of clouds that lead to the big group of cloud. I can spark the student’s learning from this activity is that I try to take them outside. I will show them the different clouds and the different shape ,they will make. Shows them the sky isn’t just one color that it can be pink, it can be orange, it can be black .

Seminar Project: Cloud Collage

Read: Introducing Collage to Young Children

Watch:

Now it’s time to create.

Materials: 

  • Collage materials: Collect any materials from around your house that can be used to collage
  • Paint (optional). Watercolor or tempera.
  • Background paper: You can create collage on any surface. It can be a white sheet of paper, colored construction paper, cardboard, wood…
  • Glue or tape
  • Scissors (optional). You can also tear if you prefer.

Create

  • Look up at the sky and take some time to notice the clouds. 
  • Make a list of descriptive words to describe the clouds.
  • Make a collage of sky and clouds.

Take a picture of your art work and post it here. Write a brief paragraph describing how you would “spark” students’ learning for this activity.