Whether young or older, we can have fun making collages from the collectibles of autumn.
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Take nature walks, browse around your own yard, find memorabilia of other years and create lovely and unique collages on various backgrounds.
You might use fabric, cardboard, shingle, colored paper, foil, bark and other background materials. If they’re too flimsy, put a firmer material behind them. Then add leaves, pebbles, twigs, bark, paper cut in autumn shapes, burlap, twine, yarn and other objects that will combine into an artistic piece.
Sometimes you may have a theme. Other pieces may be simply an attractive arrangement of the objects you have on hand.
I saw some autumn collages made by second graders the other day. These were glued on colored paper attached to cardboard. Then the youngsters cut out leaf shapes, added some they’d collected outdoors. They dabbed the arrangement with paint. Most had something Mom could hang on the wall for an eye-catching art piece.
What have you done for autumn collages?