Famous painters inspired magazine scraps portrairts

Do you have a stash of old magazines and don't know what to do with them? I have to confess I have a lot of old magazines (I have no idea why?) and before getting rid of them I decided to use scraps to create simple magazines collage portraits. 

First we looked at some portraits by Picasso and Arcimboldo to get some inspiration and realized that portraits don't need to be an exact representation of real world. 

All you need is:
- some old magazines
- pastel crayons/paints/wax crayons (use your favorites)
- paper and glue

Mr Frog found some pieces (eyes, noses, mouths and food) in magazines and cut them out. Then he created own portraits (loosely inspired by the big painters portraits he saw) by sticking and drawing with pastels.  He enjoyed the activity so much and created so many quite spooky portraits ;)

 

This simple activity is great to practice fine motor skills (cutting and sticking) and arouse kids interest in famous painters work. Next day Mr Frog asked me to show him some more famous painters - it looks like more magazines' photos are going to be turn into portraits soon ;) 




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