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Kids Collage Games for Ages 5-11

Let children express their artistic side by designing collages, which are pictures made from various objects. Up the stakes by adding an element of competition by transforming this art project into a game. Collage games can teach more than just art skills. Children can learn almost any concept through making a collage.

Nature-Number Collage
- For younger children, you can skip scissors and make collages from collected items. Tell children that you're going for a walk and they have to collect as many objects as they can. Let children put everything they find into one bag. After the walk, empty the contents of the bag onto a table. Ask children to group the items into similar categories, such as leaves, flowers, twigs and rocks. Next, count how many of each type of object they collected (e.g. three flowers, six leaves). Help them make a large collage in which they paste their found objects in order of fewest to greatest.
Mystery Object Pictures
- Your 6- and 7-year-olds will like this collage game because it requires them to use their creativity to meet a challenge. Beforehand, prepare brown-paper lunch bags with various collage materials. Fold the top of the bag so kids can't see what is inside. Have each child choose a mystery bag. Tell them that they have to use everything inside to construct a picture of something. It can be a picture of an animal, a landscape or a person, but they have to use everything in the bag. They can tear and glue the items, but they can't use pencils or scissors.
Self-Portrait Placemats
- This game is appropriate for 8- to 9-year-olds. Tell the children what a self-portrait is. Give them a stack of kid-friendly magazines and tell them they're going to create their own self-portrait by cutting human features out of the magazine that resemble their own. For example, if the child has brown eyes, they will cut out a picture of two brown eyes. Whoever makes the collage that most closely resembles himself wins. Afterward, laminate the collages and use them as placemats for the dinner table.
Opposites Attract Collage
- Discuss the concept of opposites with 10- and 11-year-olds. Provide them with a variety of old magazines. Tell kids that they will be making hilarious creatures by cutting out bodies and heads from the magazines. The bodies and heads can come from people, animals or cartoons. Then, kids will match a head with the body that is the most opposite of it. For example, they can match the head of a grizzled cowboy with the body of a prom queen or pair a very big head with a tiny body. Have kids paste their creatures to a large piece of construction paper. Whoever makes the funniest or most opposite match wins the game.

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