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Collage Craft Ideas For Kids



Collage craft ideas can keep children busy for an afternoon or for an entire summer. Depending on what type of photos or embellishments you use, the project can be ongoing or can end the same day.

A special way to make a collage crafting project even better for children is to create the collage around an event they are involved in, like summer vacation. Or, your children might want to make a collage that features memories of friends or pets. Either way, kids will enjoy gathering collage materials and laying them out in patterns that mean something special to them.

Summer Vacation Collages

When planning your next summer vacation or even spring break, think in terms of places and items that would lend themselves well to your collage-making ideas. Keep a large box for materials found in the wild and around the house, as well as a bin for photos.

Planning: If you're leaving home for a summer vacation, have your children make a list of things they plan on taking with them, or, if you're staying home, have them compose a list of the things they would like to do over the summer. This list can later be used as a border for their collage, or the words can be woven into the collage, perhaps beside the photo that each word represents.

Materials: Because children are notorious for changing their minds, use glue that can be removed easily. New additions to the materials box will cause your children to change their minds regarding the layout of the collage numerous times before the summer is over.

Photos: Take plenty of photos. Make sure the photos include serious and posed images as well as candid, downright silly snapshots.

Collect Memorabilia: Collecting summer vacation memorabilia means collecting place mats at diners, funky straws at restaurants, flowers and seed pods in an out-of-the-way meadow, pine cones and evergreen needles in the forest and items found on every beach visited.

Craft Boxes: Craft boxes can be purchased at any craft store. But, even if cash isn't limited, be creative and make your own craft boxes out of shoeboxes. Craft boxes can have a collage glued to the entire outside covering all three sides as well as the top, or your child can create a secret collage by gluing the photos and embellishments along the walls in the inside of the box.

Photo Frames: A child can also create photo frame collages by gluing small photos in a zigzag pattern onto the frame. The best types of photo frames to use are the frames that are at least inch-wide, with flat surfaces, so the glue has a good surface to stick to.

Set Up Area: Set up an area in one corner of the living room or playroom where the collage can remain all summer as the children build it.

Creating A Pet Or Best Friend Collage

Collages inspired by pets or best friends would be a special addition to a child's bedroom. Go through your photo albums, and collect every photo of your child and his pet or just of the pet, and also any photos of him with his friends. It's best to ask the child if he wants to make the collage and also to let him choose the photos before you have copies made. Once you have established an affirmative from your child, place one set of photos on the table, and let your child enjoy the wonderful pictures.

Have a sample collage already made to show your child how a collage is created. Be aware of the fact that your child may copy your collage perfectly, so, if you want him to be more creative, you may have to explain other ways of creating a collage to help him get his own ideas flowing. Better yet, you may want to start the collage for him so that he gets the idea without becoming overwhelmed. Use fake fur that's the same color as your pet for accent pieces, and use jewels that are the same color as the pet's eyes. If your child and his best friend are eating watermelon in one photo or holding footballs in another, superimpose paper watermelon slices or footballs that your child has created either with rubber stamps or scrapbooking items of the correct size. Adding small pieces of artwork created by your child will help your child to feel ownership over the collage.

If your child is into a particular music icon or celebrity, he might enjoy cutting out photos of this person from magazines and making a collage out of them, as well. The lyrics from his favorite songs can be used to create a border or be woven in and around the photos. Add some fun by showing your child how to superimpose photos of himself into the picture with the celebrity.

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Music Themed Bedroom For Your Teen



If your teenage son is a music lover, there are ways to let him enjoy being in his bedroom, by giving him a room that reflects his musical preferences. Below are a few tips on how to get him singing all night long - but in his sleep so that no one else is disturbed.

You can buy music-themed stencils and trace them out along the walls to create a border of musical wallpaper. These may have shapes of music notes such as treble or G clefs. If the wall is light colored, fill in the trace lines with black interior wall paint to allow the stenciled images to pop. Instead of music notes, you could also opt for piano keys as your motif.

For his bedding, black and white would be great, especially to remind him of his piano keys, if he plays the piano. Get a comforter in solid black then accent the look with throw pillows in pristine white. Alternatively, you can purchase a complete music-themed bed set then just add on the throw pillows to accent the look.

Your window dressings, you can play around and use your imagination for a music themed room. You may string up some old CDs or vinyl records on a strong piece of rope or twine and hang them up as a valance on hooks anchored into either side of your curtain box. You may also cut out music notes from solid black fabric or felt then glue them onto a valance in solid white. Or if you wish to stick to traditional curtains for your window treatments, go for black and white printed or solid black or solid white drapes.

If your teen is into classical music, you could frame up sheet music from some of his favorite symphonies by Mozart or Pachelbel and hang them on the walls. Alternatively, if he is a metal head, and at the exact opposite extreme, frame up vintage vinyl covers of his favorite classical rock bands. For more accent ideas, paint a treble clef staff or G clef on the front of his wardrobe.

A shag area rug on his floor would be great addition to his music-themed room. You can find these in solid black solid white or patterned in white and black to complement the whole black and white theme you have going. Or if you are feeling creative, buy two shag area rugs of the same pile; one in solid white, the other in solid black. Cut out music notes of similar size from both rugs then replace with the differently colored rug music note. Hold these in place with rug or duct tape then fluff the rug with your fingers. This is easy to do so do it together with him, and he will always be proud of the wok of his hands.

When he is in his room, his creativity will flow as he has the right ambiance for this, and he will be well on his way to becoming the music virtuoso he has always wanted to be.

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