Collage Ideas for the TAB classroom

I just finished my 6th year as a TAB teacher. This is my first post in quite a few years and I am in the midst of adding

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The Collage Center in my TAB classroom

The Collage Center in the TAB Classroom Collage was the second center I introduced in my TAB classroom. The sign above was introduced and is always there though

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Making animals out of square shapes

I really did start this project with squares. You would never believe it looking at these amazing pictures these kindergarten and first grade children created.I started out by

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Little girls collage their favorite dress (literacy art project)

This was another activity from our literacy art project last Summer. Many of the projects we did with the children were decided before we even got the books

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Awesome shape collage starting with one shape

  A few weeks ago I wrote a guest post on Cassie Stephens blog. If you want to read what I did, you can check it out through that

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Don’t throw out your old magazines: Make a rolled paper collage

I was looking through some old videos I have in my  videos category recently and I came across this rolled paper collage for adults. I remembered that I had wanted

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Snowman crafts: No need to use boring styrofoam balls to get realistic snowmen

Snow had just fallen last week so snow crafts was on my mind when I went to teach art in the local school that I teach in. What

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Mixed media art on landscapes while learning about foreground and background (art class lesson 7)

I learned a couple of things from this lesson. It was supposed to be a mixed media art project teaching about foreground, midground and background. (which is really

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Finding shapes & lines in pictures (art class lesson 2)

So we are in our second of our art class. For explanation of what this class is all about see first class post.I had a few  goals for this

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Does a Square need to be Perfect? (literacy art projects)

The perfect square was actually the perfect excuse to do some collages with kids. Any reader of this blog will know how much I love collages and you

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