Activity title: Nature collage 

Category: Art

Targeted Age Group: preschooler (3-5 years)

Intent: Nature collage art is a process-based art activity that lets children explore diverse materials and express themselves by creatively making a nature collage. It supports them in making choices, experimenting with textures, colours, and shapes, and creating something unique from nature.

Essential skills (Galinsky, 2010). 

Perspective taking - children develop a connection with nature and others as they explore and share materials among themselves, and describe what they create.

domain/skill indicator:

cognitive: communicating findings (4.8) - presenting their ideas to others through drawing, telling, music, and movement. (Ontario ministry of education, 2014).

Materials: leaves, flowers, twigs, pebbles, rocks, pinecones, grass, glue, cardboard, paintbrushes for the glue, smocks, wet cloth for clean up.

Invitation to play: 

Set up a table outdoors in a garden, then cover the table with a tablecloth and place a tray of natural materials such as leaves, flower petals, twigs, pinecones, seeds, pebbles, and also provide a piece of cardboard as the collage base with glue. Also, display a few ideas or samples to motivate the children to explore the materials and create their nature collage.

Website link example of Art 

Art Activities Collection for Kids | Little Bins for Little Hands

 

references

Galinsky, E. (2010). mind in the making: the seven essential life skills every child needs. Harper studio. Life Skills

Ontario ministry of education. (2014). ELECT: Early learning for every child today. Retrieved from. https//preschoolcanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/ELECT_compressed.pdf