Kids Crafts - Thanksgiving Mosaic

Many of the greatest civilizations of the world, used mosaics to present important images in special places. During my travels in Italy in school, we visited Venice. The cathedral was a dome over the change, the beautiful scenes and religious symbols depicted in the mosaic. Although we are not able to create something that the measure of our children, we can help them see the beauty of mosaic art and understanding of the effort that went into these great works.

Here's what you need:
-Tempera, crafts, painting or poster (autumn colors)
- Pumpkin seeds or dried beans
- Glue
- Card stock or poster board
- Small disposable cup, disposable fork

Here's what we did:

1. We used dried red beans (because they had at home). However, any dried beans will work. A variety of seeds used to be painted, or a kind of bean color painting. We painted craft. I sprayed the paint on the floor a disposable bowlspilled the beans and let the children mix with a disposable fork and stir the beans in color, until they were all covered with color. We do not have a perfect finish up all the beans, but we decided this would be our interesting mosaic. Spread the beans painted on a sheet of paper to dry, to ensure that there are two beans touched while it dries.

2. During our buckets of paint, we have a 9 x 12 inch sheet of cardboard. (This was actually part of the packaging from one ofHalloween costumes for kids cut.) We are in the neighborhood. My son and daughter each took a fall / Thanksgiving image. My son has the Mayflower, and my daughter a leaf. I drew a turkey and a pilgrim's hat on the remaining two quarters.

3. Once our beans were dry, we have moved out of the paper where they were drying. Then we injected the glue to our images, in small portions. Carefully colored beads glued on the parties, we went to finish our mosaics.

4. Once allThe beans were glued in place, we have our parts to dry.

Some tips:

1. If the children are very young, you should use as large as grains of beans or beans. This makes it easier to cover more quickly for small fingers and a larger room.

2. Note that the drawings are colored with small items and these will be limited detail as possible. Remind your children when drawing their pictures, so that the use of large, generalized formscompared to the highly detailed designs.

3. Start the mosaic with the most important point. For example, in our pilgrim hat, we began with the tip of the hat. I sprayed adhesive on top of what was to be black and we have filled in Then we have the gold buckle. After the red stripes, then the board.

4. If your children are tired, or fear that their patience is not amended before the completion of the project, you can remind them that their pieces of spacea bit '. Even on our pilgrim hat, the beans are very close to the hat, but distributed to some background.

As always, there are unlimited variations possible. You can do this project again and again. Changing the subject, this Christmas. Change materials, try pebbles, beads, buttons, tiles. You are only limiting factor is your imagination. So, use your imagination and have fun!