For this project, we first learned about the artist and author Eric Carle. We studied the method that he uses to create his own papers then later incorporates all of these papers into his art and books. I really enjoyed this project and thought it would be great to incorporate into an upper elementary classroom. The effect looks very complicated, but the process itself is alot of fun and does not seem to take as much effort as it looks at first glance.
Instructions:
1. We began this project by creating our own Eric Carle styled papers by painting various colors and patterns onto a pieces of papers to be used in our project later. These papers would be later used for the background piece, characters, and components of the story collage.
2. We created characters and decided on a scene from a story or created our own for our story collage. Once we decided on the characters and components of the scene, we sketched these out on scratch paper.
3. Once selecting which papers would be used for background and collage pieces, we traced the shapes on the background and paste paper.
4. Pieces were cut out and assembled to create our collage and then glued down carefully.
5. The final step was to add lettering to the story collage to create our own storybook page.
Extension Activity:
For use in my future classroom, I would begin the lesson by showing students a similar video to the one we watched in class to first inform the students of the process that is followed. For younger students, I think it would be great to work together as a group to complete an activity where students would paint backgrounds then cut out their own objects (much larger and simpler than those we created in class). For older students, I would have them do the same process as we did in class, but ask them to complete a single focus of art- basically the same lesson for younger students, but more detailed and a bit more complex.
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