Visit Eight: Winter Illustrations - Tissue Paper

Visit Eight: Winter Illustrations - Tissue Paper

First Grade had one last illustration to make for their books. We wanted to include some texture, despite the small and to-be-laminated space. Doug Allen, from the BYU Arts Partnership suggested tissue paper collages (and especially considering how our last collages went I wanted to give them a better experience with collaging.

We used tissue paper in a variety of colors, thicker card stock paper, and each child had a water-glue mixture and paintbrush at their desk. Now, tissue paper has the potential to become a gluey gloopy mess, with colors bleeding all over, and so I wanted to be sure to avoid that. I gave very specific instructions about the amount of glue to use (and opted on the lighter side). I was happy that we had on one sopping paper with a hole in it. 

Great Christmas themed border!

I had the children draw their illustration of the ending of their story in pencil, and then outline it in permanent marker. Due to the nature of a lot of their pictures, we opted to collage in the big blank areas, instead of try to squeeze tissue into tiny faces and bodies.

Most of the children were very organized in their tissue paper-ing, and turned out some great, spatially- aware pictures. The thing I learned in collage is that students this young definitely need to start simple. Using plain colored paper in a given shape is a much easier tool to use. Their art ended up being really interesting, and I was most pleased with how colorful it is.

Love this one! I think she actually made use of the bleeding color in an interesting way!