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Collage Turtles

We love a collage art project, especially one that uses simple art supplies or up-cycled materials. I often keep the kids old paintings; one ones that are not precious, to cut up and reuse for collage. They can add some great pattern and textures to new artworks.

If you're interested in creating more fun and easy collage art with kids, try these collage birds, rainbows and houses. All the projects are really simple and just use old cardboard boxes, scraps of coloured papers and a few other bits and pieces.

MATERIALS:

Thick corrugated card - an old cardboard box works well
Coloured paper - You can cut up old paintings, magazines or any scraps of paper you have available
Glue
Scissors
Oil pastels
Paint
Bubble wrap

DIRECTIONS:

Begin by cutting out your turtle bodies, head, legs and tails from thick cardboard; an old cardboard box works well. We make our turtles quite big with the largest measuring 50cm long, but any size will work.

Next, glue your turtles together and add a base colour with either paints or oil pastel.

To add some more 'turtle like' patterns to our up-cycled paintings and coloured card, we used bubble wrap to create printed textiles. Just spread paint onto the bubble wrap with a brush and press onto the paper.

Cut up the patterned paper into smaller pieces for collage. We cut rectangular pieces to create the edge of the turtle shell and hexagon shapes for the middle of the shell. Glue all your collage pieces in place to create your turtle shell patterns.

Happy crafting friends!

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