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I found some out of date pulses in the back of my kitchen cupboards.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…
Collage ideas for babies and toddlers
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…
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…
Easy umbrella collage. Glueing and sticking activity.
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…
Abstract spaghetti paiting
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…
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…
Rowan with his rocket. He only wanted 2 silver strips because they were the burners ;)
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Paper plate Easter basket collage. Art idea for young children
Paper plate Easter basket
Two paper plates stapled together, then decorated by the children. Filled with shredded paper and a chocolate Easter egg.
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…
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…
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 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…