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| 1st grader |
One of my students "stumbled" on this idea. I had a model of a tissue collage on the white board but it had a white background and was mounted on black construction paper. Not knowing the white background was necessary for the colors to be brighter, the student only used the black as a background. Without the white background, the colors don't come through as brightly but the black background created a very interesting look.
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| 2nd grader |
The process I followed for this project is simple. Students get a piece of construction paper (black) but I traced a black square (8x8) onto the larger black paper.
I tell the kids to put their tissue paper within the traced boarder AND just beyond. Using a paint brush to apply the glue (in decoupage fashion) once all the black within the square is covered, let it dry.
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| 3rd grade |
Next, using the paper cutter, I cut the artwork into the 8x8 square leaving a very nice smooth edge to it. That gets mounted on purple (leaving just a small edge) and that in turn gets mounted on black (again leaving a small edge).
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| 4th grade |
I press these using small individual white board and place a heavy object on top. The way I pressed them was to just pile them one on top of the other with a white board separating each piece of artwork. The pressing is necessary to flatten out the projects as the initial gluing warps the paper a bit. But after pressing, the art projects lay perfectly flat.
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| 5th grade |
I hope this makes sense.
If not, please let me know and I'll clarify.
Here is a small gallery of other examples of this project.
