Friday, July 31, 2009

Open Ended Art - Yellow Collage

This is our first time participating in the open-ended art carnival going on here! I am excited because I think M's collage turned out pretty good! :) Of course I may have a little mama-bias going on too. ;)

I put some materials together, including a little basket with yellow pom-poms, some yellow felt pieces, yellow ribbon pieces, some green paper with stickers that he cut out earlier in the week, and a few feathers. I also put his scissors out with some yellow foam, tissue paper, and some yellow-ish scrapbook papers. I taped a piece of blue paper to the table with all the supplies:
Then I waited. M watched me set everything up and then he would occasionally go over and look at it, but he wasn't doing anything. I think he is used to me telling him it's art time and what we are going to do. I was hoping he would just climb up and start creating something.

Finally I said, "You can get up at the table and make a collage with those things if you want to." And he jumped up into the chair and got started right away.

I tried to keep quiet, and for a while I reconciled myself to the idea that he was going to have a piece of paper with 3 little yellow pom-poms and puddles of glue all over.

But I just couldn't stay quiet and eventually I said, "Ok, I think that's enough glue for now" in my happy-happy mommy voice, and I snatched the glue bottle away. :)

He cut up some of the foam and other papers and then he really started glueing stuff on. I was in another room when he came to tell me he was done. He was very excited. So was I when I saw the finished art:

How fun! I am loving this!

To see more open-ended art visit Teaching My Little BookWorm!

Have a beautiful day! :)

9 comments:

  1. Oh, I love what Matthew did! I thought that you certainly set him up for success with so many options, and the picture of him in front of his masterpiece is really cute. I envy that you can go to another room while he is working on something. Usually it only takes 2 min for Anna to realize that I am no longer in the kitchen and come looking for me.

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  2. I love his face in the last photo. We are enjoying the open ended art projects too!

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  3. he looks so proud standing in front of his work!

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  4. So cute! Looks like he had a lot of fun :)

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  5. It's amazing how much glue they all are convinced they need.

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  6. i love that he did it completely on his own! and his finished project shows how much fun he had :)

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  7. he looks very proud of this collage! he did a great job

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  8. How fun!! I also think he did a marvelous job! :)

    What a cool idea, too. I'll have to check it out and participate it. Love it!

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  9. This turned out really great! I love the feathers!!

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