Kids Crafts - Mosaic Thanksgiving

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

Here's what you need:
-Tempera, crafts, painting or poster (fall colors)
- Pumpkin seeds or dried beans
- Glue
- Card stock or poster board
- Small plates and disposable forks disposable

Here's what we did:

Before We used dried red beans (we had at home). However, any dried beans will work. A variety of beans can be used unpainted, or a type of bean to be painted for color. We painted with craft paint. I splashed some 'color on the bottom of a disposable bowl, poured in the beans,and allow children to mix with a disposable fork and stir the beans into the painting until they were all painted. We do not have a perfect finish on all the beans, but we decided that this would make our interesting mosaic. We bring the beans painted on a sheet of paper to dry, to ensure that no two grains were touching during drying.

While our second paint dry, we have a 9 x 12 inch sheets of cardboard. (This was actually part of the packaging to a Halloween children 'Costumes cutting.) We are in the neighborhood. My son and daughter have taken a fall / Thanksgiving image. My son has the Mayflower, and my daughter a leaf. I drew a turkey and a pilgrim hat on the remaining two quarters.

A third time that our beans are dried, they moved out of the newspaper they were dry. Then glue sprayed on our images, in small sections. Caution in colored beads for the components of the sealant, we went to shut our mosaics.

Fourth Once all the beans wereglued in place, we have our pieces dry.

Some tips:

Before If your children are very young, it may be as large as grains of beans or butter beans use. This will be easier for little fingers and cover a larger area faster.

According Note that your designs will be colored small objects and these are limited to the details possible. Remind your children of this design, when their images so that the use of large, generalized forms can, in contrastvery detailed drawings.

Start the mosaic with the third most important. For example, our pilgrim hat, we started with the tip of the hat. I sprayed adhesive on the top, that would be black and we filled in then we added the gold buckle. After the red stripes, then the board.

Fourth If your kids are always tired, or afraid that their patience may not last to the completion of the project to remind you that their pieces one spacesmall. Even on our pilgrim hat, beans are very close to the hat, but some spread in the background.

As always, there are unlimited variations possible. You can do this project again and again. Subject to change, do yourself a Christmas present. Change materials, try pebbles, beads, buttons, tiles. You are only limiting factor is your imagination. So use your imagination and have fun!