Fall Into Leaves Collage

Description: For this project, we first started out with taking three warm colored crayons: red, orange, and yellow and used a shape tool to create crayon shavings onto a piece of wax paper. We then folded the paper in half and used an iron to mix and melt the crayon shavings. Once this was done, we traced at least 3 leaf shapes onto the wax paper with a permanent marker and then cut them out. We then glued the leaves to another sheet of paper in an overlapping collage pattern. Once this was completed, we used cool colored oil pastels: blue, green, and purple and created a collage of leaves around the wax paper leaves. We did at least 5 oil pastel leaves to create a collage of at least 8 leaves total with some looking like they are at the bottom, some on the top, and some to look like they were overlapping others.

Extension Activity: I think the ideas of using oil pastels and wax paper crayon shavings would work for any number of projects. one that comes to mind is having the students do a colorful snowflake picture if you are doing a project like this during the winter. You could do one with flowers for the spring, or make a collage of your favorite type of animal, activity, or any number of other topics. You could also use the idea of oil pastels and wax paper shavings to create a regular picture or a story picture, it does not necessarily have to be in a collage format. That is one of the nice things about art, you have the opportunity to combine different types of media in different ways to make a wide range of art projects.