- Gather your materials. You will need a piece of card stock or construction paper, some markers/ crayons, glue and then some smaller pieces of things like feathers, aluminum foil, sand paper- anything that can easily be glued on and have an obvious texture. I used some foam ( squishy), foil wrapping paper ( smooth) and feathers ( soft) .
- I had my son start out with markers, because writing / scribbling is an important skill so practicing it is fun and worthwhile, but you don’t need to do this step.
- Drizzle or have your child put some glue on the paper.
- Put the collage materials on one at a time, talk about how it feels when your child is handling it.
- With older children you can ask them to close their eyes , put the collage material into their hands and ask them what it feels like!
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Wow! I’ve just stumbled onto your blog and will visit everyday now. You have excellent ideas! I have 2 daughters (2 and 4) they will love all of these projects and we have many of the same books. Thanks for the inspiration
Thanks Nicole ! You made my day, I am so happy you like it!
I have been looking around and everything is so cute! I have to ask though….do you save EVERYTHING your son makes? What do you do with it all?
Oh goodness no. Most gets recycled, I take pictures of everything and throw the rest out. I always take off buttons, googly eyes etc… to use again though.
Great idea to recycle the googly eyes… I hadn’t thought of that. 🙂
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