Media: Collage – Art & Craft for Babies

Dried pulses collage

I found some out of date pulses in the back of my kitchen cupboards. Rather than throwing them away, I decided to take them to toddler group. We simply stuck …

Paper plate jelly fish

Lots of jelly fish around at the moment. Try making this jelly fish from half a paper plate, some brightly coloured strips of paper and plenty of paint!

Spring blossom collage

Made simply with brown wool, scrunched up pink tissue paper and lots of glue!

Spring and summer nature collages

Use leaves, petals, twigs, grass, what ever you can find, to make a beautiful nature collage. Dandelion seeds give a lovely effect when glued onto black paper. When we did …

Weather collage- great come rain or shine!

This is really easy to do in a group- draw a chunky image, photocopy and leave the children to be creative! I like to use paper and material with different …

Spaghetti picture: painting or messy play

Some children made an abstract spaghetti picture painting. Some mums painted a face, and the children added spaghetti hair. I made a spaghetti train picture for Rowan to paint. Some …

Feather animal collage- create spring animals

This is Sam’s feather animal collage. Very young children will enjoy just sticking the feathers down with PVA glue, and an adult can add details to turn them into little animals. …

Space rocket collage

I can never get my little boy to do the art and craft activity, he’s not interested. My mum suggested that we do something that he is interested in (obvious …

Paper plate sheep

I was going to do this with cotton wool, but I found some old wool and polystyrene bits that I thought would work well. The first picture is the example …

Kite collage

White card kite shapes a decorate (actually done because we had lots of bits cut out and left over from the fish collage– recognise the colours and the “seaweed” tail?!) …

Fish collage

Just photocopied a picture of a fish (kindly drawn by my husband) and decorated with fish scales and green tissue paper seaweed.

Snowman advent calendar

Sam made this at Beavers, so would be difficult for very young children. Large chocolate button sweets were wrapped in silver foil and stuck on using sticky tabs to make …

Caterpillar paper circle collage picture

Caterpillar paper collage

Just paper circles used to make a spring caterpillar picture. If you look closely, you can just about see the caterpillar’s face drawn on.

Easter bunny ears

Just a strip of card, bunny ears stapled on, then decorated. I like the pinky coloured tissue paper in the middle. Very cute, and well modelled Rowan x.

Paper plate Easter basket

Two paper plates stapled together, then decorated by the children. Filled with shredded paper and a chocolate Easter egg.

Easter eggs and straw- easy Easter collage

Easter egg collage with straw.

We used shredded paper from a craft shop, but you could easily used shredded bank statements- even better shredded yellow and brown paper! Simply a card shape cut out and decorated.

Mother’s Day teapot cards- with tea bag!

We made these at church, and such a simple idea. The teapot shapes took quite a while to cut out- but you could just draw a teapot shape on. The …

Egg box collage

Using old egg boxes gives a lovely 3D collage- and it soaks up loads of glue! Decorate with anything that takes your fancy 🙂

Elmer the elephant collage art idea for toddlers

Elmer the Elephant plastic milk carton collage

Another lovely idea brought home from nursery. They used coloured squares of tissue paper and googly eyes, all stuck on an old milk carton.

Valentine’s Day woven paper heart

This came home from Rowan’s nursery. I loved the idea of using a hole punch and doing some simple weaving with wool. There is a pipe cleaner at the top so …