Here are some ideas for using a newspaper to create art: shamrocks, bunnies, shapes and more. Remember that newspaper is also a wonderful background paper for a collage or as an art medium to use.
What you will need: Lots of newspapers (Classified and comics will work well.) Scissors, glue sticks, bottle glue, heart cookie cutters, circles to trace (coffee can and nut can lids work well for this), pencils and/or sharpies, crayons, oil pastels, tempera paints, brushes, etc., multiple sizes of buttons, yarn, aluminum foil, and other crafty adornments as you wish, construction paper or tag board (cut to size). Examples of finished work for show.
For the shamrocks: Find a non-color side of classified piece of newspaper. Use heart cookie cutters to trace 3 hearts onto newspaper. It's best if they are all the same size of hearts. Then draw a curved thin triangle for the shamrock stem. Cut out all parts and glue onto construction paper or tag board with heart "points" touching; then add stem. Use oil pastel or crayon to add color, or use crafty adornments to decorate. Note: You may also wish to make smaller hearts to glue inside the bigger ones to create a layer heart shamrock. Enjoy!
For the Bunnies, use a coffee can lid or at least a 5 inch circle to trace on a comic strip page or classified page from a newspaper. Then add two triangles that are long and tall for ears. Use crayons, sharpie (for use if you painted) or oil pastels to add eyes, nose (a small upside down triangle), whiskers and a mouth. Cut out all parts. Glue onto construction paper.
Shapes. Art teachers are always wanting a fun and different way to teach shapes, especially to younger students. Just use a pre-cut 12 x 12 sheet of newspaper or comic pages to have students cut out (with you demonstrating of course) how to take a rectangle and cut to divide it into squares; then cut again on the diagonal to make triangles; use a square to trim off the corner (points) and round out to make a circle. Keep trimming and make an oval. These can be cut out, glue onto paper, and decorated as above. Or just simply have students paint or color in the shapes the newspaper has. Classified pages are perfect for this!Enjoy these ideas! I am sure you can come up with even more ideas. Please comment if you enjoy this post. Thanks. Here are photos for you to see. Student work used by permission. Please do not paste or copy these into your email, blog or website. Remember, give credit where it is due. Thank you!
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