A touch and feel collage will teach a child about the sense of touch. A collage is a collection of objects arranged and glued onto paper or poster board. Children will enjoy expressing their creativity and touching their masterpieces. Creating a touch and feel collage is an enriching activity for lesson plans on the five senses and an educational craft for a rainy day or anytime that you need to keep children busy. These make colorful decorations for a refrigerator or office bulletin board.
- Construction Paper
- Glue
- Popsicle Sticks
- Sandpaper
- Cotton balls
- Nylon fabric scraps
- Velvet fabric scraps
- Fleece fabric scraps
- Small plastic combs
- Buttons
- Macaroni noodles
- Yarn
- Wax paper
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Instructions
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Cut pieces of sandpaper, scraps, tinfoil, yarn and wax paper into smaller pieces.
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Hand the children pieces of construction paper and direct the students to select objects for their collages.
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Pour about 1/4 cup of glue onto a piece of paper for each child. Instruct the children to dip Popsicle sticks into the glue to attach to the objects.
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Tell the students to glue the items onto the paper using the Popsicle sticks. Help the children choose a variety of the objects so that there are soft, hard, scratchy and smooth objects in each collage. For an added effect, teach them to create the objects in a design, such as waves or a circle.