Open-and-Go Newsprint Pet Collage Mini Art Unit
$14.99
Looking for fun collage project ideas for young students? This 5-lesson mini unit helps your grades K-2 students design their very own cat or dog collage while mastering cutting, tracing and glueing skills. Templates offer guidance, but the creative additions are all up to them!
Description
The Newspaper Collage Mini Unit That Teaches Real Art (for You!)
No, this isn’t just a backup plan for chaos weeks. This 5-lesson mini unit helps your Grades K-2 students explore the world of collage while mastering cutting, tracing and glueing skills. Perfect for busy art teachers who want results without overwhelm. Includes lesson videos, step-by-step student guides, and Google Slides for effortless delivery.
Why bring Collage to your Classroom?
The art of collage has only been around since the early 1900s. Around then some very influential artists experimented with the art form, and created a new appreciation for it. Picasso, Braque, and Matisse all showed that scissors, paper and imagination could be just as powerful as paintbrushes.
Build Cutting, Tracing, and Glueing Skills.
Now it’s easy to provide your young students with creative collage projects, which have some built-in skill practice as well. Each project includes simple pattern templates for the head and neck and ears, but the faces and details are all left up to them. Keeping the decorating options to black paper and black marker will help students stay focused, and provide the maximum amount of contrast to a colorful background too.
Not sure how to Prep all that Newsprint? 
No problem, just print your own! Real newsprint would be fun to use and recycle, of course, but it’s not exactly practical for a busy classroom. That’s why I created a scan of newsprint-style paper that you can print on whatever paper works best for you.
Inside this Mini Unit You’ll Find:
• Lesson Videos that walk you and your students through every step.
• Google Slides to keep your teaching visual, digital, and done-for-you.
• Printable PDF Student Guides for easy, step-by-step directions (even if you’ve got a sub or range of learners).
Want the standards alignment, extension activities, and assessment tools, too? Check out the Art Projects for Kids Curriculum Club and get 35 comprehensive lessons planned for you…every month for about the same price! 🤩
Picture this: your classroom is in a state of flow…
Students are cutting and glueing, and excitedly whispering, “Mine looks just like my own dog!”
You’re not racing around the room with a glue stick in one hand and a half-finished demo in the other.
You’re teaching. You’re guiding. You’re actually enjoying art class again.
Best of all, you didn’t spend your entire weekend planning. No stress-scrolling for last-minute ideas. No piecing together a project from random Pinterest posts.
Just a ready-to-go mini unit with lessons that work — for you and your students.
This is what it feels like to teach art with joy, not burnout.
Ready to bring your classroom (and your students’ artwork) to life? Grab access to the unit and get started today.
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