When we went to the Betty Brinn Children's Museum last Saturday one of the exhibits was an art area. They had lots of media for the kids to work with and one that inspired me was the tissue paper cut into small pieces. They had bins full of small pieces of cut scrapbook paper, foam, and tissue paper as well as bits of string. The kids were using glue sticks to affix these items to sheets of paper.
That reminded me of a craft we did when I was in elementary school - a tissue paper tree. The tree itself isn't tissue paper, but the leaves are.
We worked with the paper we had on hand here in the house so the colors aren't traditional autumn colors.
You just trace around a child's arm and hand to create the trunk of the tree. We used construction paper for this part.
Then you take small pieces of tissue paper and crumple them up to make the leaves. Glue stick makes the two stick together.
When I was a child we used paste, but it seems that glue sticks have replaced paste these days.
Do you have favorite art projects from your schooling days?
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