Picture This -- Art Exploration for Kids: “The Marvelous Collages of Steve Jenkins ”

 

Picture This -- Art Exploration for Kids: “The Marvelous Collages of Steve Jenkins ” (Grades K-5 though would also work with younger groups.)

“Help us celebrate Children’s Book Week by exploring the work of acclaimed author/illustrator Steve Jenkins. We’ll enjoy some of his books and then create our own brilliant mixed-paper collages.”

• Read his books Move. Looking down, Actual Size (and parts of Prehistoric Actual Size)
• Show “About Me” and “Making Books” sections from his website http://www.stevejenkinsbooks.com/aboutme/
• Create cut paper animal collages. Supplies: assorted fancy papers, glue sticks, scissors, hole punches.
• Resources: other books by Jenkins, assorted animal books with photographs.

Program could be extended by placing greater emphasis on the mathematical elements...measuring the sizes of things and having kids make their collages "actual size" or scaled up/down.

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