My little class (4-5 year olds) made some fabulous mixed-media collage journals. We used at least 7 different mediums for this project and were introduced to many new materials and techniques, including stenciling, stamping with found objects and bubble wrap and using foam rollers.
Process:
We began with laying down an acrylic backgrounds with foam rollers, and then overlaying our background using a different color and a stencil (brick or animal print stencil).
Then we drew houses of our own design on book paper and painted these with watercolor using only warm colors (we all know what warm-cool colors are!) To give our houses more interest we added colorful shading to doors and windows with chalk in warm colors.
Next, we created a ground for our house to stand on using strips of paper (music paper, deco paper and painted paper).
Then we began stamping using bubble wrap, cups, corrugated cardboard, bottle caps etc.
After gluing down our house and added shading to our house using charcoal (to make our house stand out against the background) we glued down layered trees (circles which I had pre-cut our of patterned deco paper) and added stems and details with black marker.
Lastly, we stamped our names with letter stamps and stamped the date.
Voila! These are lovely and really seem to tell a story.