Creating Art Together - Creative collage art making game
Creating Art Together - Creative collage art making game
Connecting people through simple art activities
In these ‘Creating Art Together’ articles, I aim to share art prompts that can be used to create connection between family members, with friends or in our community spaces. Simple and fun arty ideas to bring us together for a moment of creativity, unity and joy.
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Today we are making abstract collage art loosely inspired by Yayoi Kusama. This is a great activity to do as an ice breaker at a creative workshop, as a family game or with friends.
MATERIALS:
A3 sheets of cartridge paper
Coloured paper or old patterned painting that you are happy to cut up
Dot stickers
Colour markers
Glue sticks
Scissors
HOW TO:
Set out the sheets of A3 paper around a large table, one sheet for each participant. Place the other materials in the centre of the table within easy reach of everyone. The facilitator calls out the list of art-making ‘commands’ one by one for the participants to follow.
The idea behind giving ‘art-commands’ is that it removes the decision making process, freeing up the artist to be spontaneous with their art making and to use their instincts. It’s also really fun.
After the first round, following all my commands, I usually do the process again with a fresh piece of paper and allow all the children to, in turn, shout out their own commands for everyone to follow. This time they got so wild in their creative commands with children saying things like ‘draw 100 elephants’ or ‘draw poo!’
ART COMMANDS:
Cut out 2 large shapes from patterned paper and glue onto your page
Add 3 smaller coloured paper shapes to your page
Add dot stickers around shapes
Draw dashes inside a shape
Draw a large triangle
Add squiggles inside shapes
Draw lines connecting shapes
Add dot stickers inside shapes
Draw squiggles
Draw eyes inside shapes
Create a border around your page
Add 8 more dot stickers
(Feel free to alter the commands to suit the materials you have available.)
I hope you enjoy playing these drawing games with your friends, family and community groups. Happy art making, may it bring you a moment of fun and connection with others.
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Thanks, Eleanor X