DLTK's Crafts for Kids
School Bus Collage
Creating a school bus collage is a wonderful art project that allows for creativity and personalization. Here's how you can make your own:
Materials:
- Yellow, black or dark blue, white or light blue, and flesh-toned paper scraps. I like to use bits of scrapbook paper, wrapping paper, magazines, tissue paper and construction paper.
- Images of children (cut from magazines or printed) or additional paper in various colors for creating your own figures
- A large sheet of paper for the background
- Glue
- Scissors
Instructions:
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Prepare Your Workspace:
- Lay out all your materials and ensure your workspace is clean and ready for crafting.
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Create the Bus Body:
- Start by arranging the yellow paper scraps into a large rectangle on your background paper to form the body of the bus. This should take up a significant portion of your background to ensure there's enough room for windows and wheels. Overlap the scraps slightly and glue them down to secure them, creating a textured and vibrant bus body.
- You can add a little nose to the bus or just leave it as a simple rectangle.
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Add the Stripe:- Cut or tear your black or dark blue paper scraps into strips. Arrange one strip horizontally across the lower part of the yellow rectangle to represent the bus's stripe. Glue it in place.
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Make the Wheels:
- Use the black or dark blue paper to cut out two large circles for the wheels. Place and glue these circles below the bus body, ensuring they are proportionate to the size of the bus.
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Craft the Windows:
- Cut white or light blue paper scraps into small squares to serve as the bus windows. Arrange these squares along the upper portion of the yellow rectangle, leaving space between them to mimic the look of bus windows. Glue them in place.
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Add Passengers:
- For the passengers, you can use cut-out images of children and glue them behind the windows. Alternatively, create simple figures by cutting circles from flesh-toned paper for heads and triangles or rectangles from colored paper for bodies. Arrange these shapes to look like children sitting in the bus and glue them so they appear to be looking out of the windows.
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Final Touches:
- Once all the elements are in place and the glue has dried, add any additional details you'd like, such as a bumper, headlights, or decorations on the background paper.
Your school bus collage is now complete! This project not only fosters creativity but also helps develop fine motor skills and provides an opportunity for storytelling as children decide who their passengers will be.
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