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Create your own shape collage online: add photos without uploading, select a shape and let us automatically create a photo shape collage. Create a photo shape collage in the shape of a word, map, icon, heart, tree, circle, square (and many more) or use your own shape. You can customize your shape collage with various settings like: rotation, border, margin, repeat and sizes.
One of our favorite activities to do with our kids at home and at our workshops is shape collages. Its great as it teaches and reinforces shapes to them. They also get to learn colors and explore textures while they are at it. It is a simple activity with minimal preparation and clean up.
We also had different textures like magazine papers, construction paper, corrugated board, foam, aluminium foils and colored tissue papers. There are also other types of materials that could be used such as fabric scraps, bottle caps, straws that can also be used to create your collage. I love that this is very open, process art and the kids and I talk about the possibilities that we could create. Like a playground, buildings, vehicles, etc. I use this opportunity to discuss about shapes around us and what we can look out for in nature and all around us.
This activity requires some preparation work in advance. Cut out squares and circles in advance. Have a A3 paper for backing, preferably one that is thick paper so that it can take the glue. Scissors, plate (for glue), glue and brush.
Have these materials ready and invite the child to it. Talk to them about shapes, what they can see, feel the texture and how a square can be cut to make into rectangles, or triangles, and how circles can be cut into halves to create dome shaped, etc.
Then you could ask the child to imagine a scene or an animal that they would like to create. For older children, they would be happy to start working on this project and you could also join in a create your own collage. For younger children, it could be a collaborative effort that parent and child could talk about what they would like to create and do it together.
Once completed, add one coat of glue to the entire surface of your collage to glue down any loose edges. Here is my completed heart shape collage which I glued onto a page from a magazine, cut around it, then glued onto another full magazine page to make a border. The red page was a perfume ad so the heart smells pretty too!
Print out shape tracers, cut them out and trace the large shapes onto construction paper. Make several of each shape and size. (To make sturdier tracers, use a manila folder or poster board to make tracers.) Give your little ones a whole piece of construction paper, glue and the shapes. Let them start creating their collage.
Tips(to maximize learning): 1. If your kids are younger, trace all of the shapes and cut them out ahead of time. If you think they are old enough to get some experience tracing and cutting; cut a few extra sturdy tracers and let them give it a try. (You should still cut most of them; unless your little one really likes tracing and cutting they will probably be ready to move on after only cutting a couple of shapes). 2. Repeat the names of the shapes over and over, your little one will pick them up quickly. 3. If there is a certain shape you know that your kids have trouble with, focus on that one.
How does this work in education? This is ideal for younger students to use both to play with images and to learn about how collages can work. It's also something teachers can use to create eye-catching image collections to print and place about the class.
Shape Collage lets you upload photos to the app and then allows you to organize it all into shapes. The end result should be an attractive way to share photos with the class and beyond.
Shape Collage comes in app form so you will need to download it first before running it. That also means this is super secure since all the photos being used are kept locally on the device that is operating the installed program.
On the downside, this does stand behind some of the other app options available, which are more cloud-based. That said, this does offer various formats for a number of platforms including Mac, Windows, and Linux, and also for smartphones and tablets with Android and iOS apps available.
Shape Collage comes in app form so the first step to using it is downloading the right app for the device you're using. Usefully, when you navigate to the site it'll recognise your device and pop that version at the top of the Download tab section. You can install and get using right away without paying anything or even signing in with your details.
Consequently, this is easy to get running for both teachers and even younger students. The user interface is a little on the -- ahem -- traditional side of things. As such, don't expect too much guidance as many online-based apps now offer. So this is for children of at least age 6 and up, and likely will need some guidance to get them started.
Despite that, it is easy to use in its main functionality. Drag and drop photos onto the whiteboard to the left and these will appear in thumbnail form. Then select a shape and hit the Create button. Other options are available to vary picture closeness, size, and more manually, should the automation not work to your liking.
A bit of processing later and you have a preview of the finished version, which you can edit before hitting Save when you're happy. Then pick Jpg, Png, and other options to decide the file type you want.
Shape Collage is easy to use, with a simple drag-and-drop interface. While most of the features are automated, it's also a welcome addition to have some manual choices that you can enable to fine tune the results.
In most cases you will need to adjust the finished look so photos don't overlap too much or too little. The automation here isn't as smart as perhaps you'd expect. Thankfully, there is a handy "Photo spacing" button and slider that you can drag and move before hitting Create again to see the changes. This is great for fine tuning a perfect end result.
Shape selections are pretty basic with rectangle, grid, heart, and circle available right away. But you can also input text to have photos generate a letter or words. Plus, you have the option to select a More option in which you can make a custom shape, providing way more freedom to create as you need. Want a selection of reading choices laid out in a book shape? You're covered. Want the word "Biology" filled with images or cells, organs, and more? It'll do that too.
The Shape Collage Pro option, at $40, gets you no more watermarks on images, the ability to move individual photos around, save as PSD for further editing in Photoshop, project saving to carry on later, commercial licensing to cover promo use, and the ability to create templates for use later.
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Have students submit photo-based projects using collages with extra points for creative uses of the way these work -- helping to foster creativity and challenging them think originally.
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As you walk through the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, take a look at the variety of colors, shapes, and lines depicted throughout the works in this amazing collection of sculptures. These elements of art especially stand out in some sculptures in the garden. In this activity, we will identify distinctive shapes in sculptures and create a shape collage using found household items and pictures.
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My Pre-K class was reviewing shapes in their class so I planned the following lesson for them which they all loved. Plan for two lessons when you do this with Pre-K and Kindergarten and you can adapt this idea to other grade levels.
Each student got a big plain colored paper and drew their favorite shapes (not too small, not too big) on the paper with a pencil. They outlined their shapes with a black crayon, colred them in and then cut them out.
The students chose a big colored paper, glued their shapes and transformed them by adding arms, legs, hats, ears, hair, feet, shoes, etc. Other details like the weather, houses, grass, flowers were also encouraged. This was a perfect lesson to review shapes and turn them into awesome art work!
With Phinsh Collage Maker, the photo layouts that you can create are endless. This is because of the ability to change the size of your photos, the space between them and the shape representation accuracy. Each time you use the app you can select a new shape and custom collage settings which makes your Photo Collage unique and eye catching with each use!
We also reviewed the word collage and students noticed how many of his cut paper shapes in his collages, resembled leaves and plant life, and learned how they were organic shapes. We talked about how organic shapes have curving, free flowing lines and can be found in nature, like in clouds, puddles, leaves, and flowers. As opposed to geometric shapes (shapes that have straight lines and are usually symmetrical).
Students tested colors out on a paper towel before applying paint to their paper. Sometimes the colors of liquid watercolors can be hard to see, since they are so saturated and appear very similar to one another in color within the ice cube trays.
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