Dinosaurs are always fun to draw, and with this project my five and six year olds were able to give a textural dimension to their drawings by using wallpaper instead of normal paper.
We looked at some photos of dinosaurs, and then the kids chose from a big pile of textured wallpapers in various greens, browns and yellows. They drew their own prehistoric creature on the reverse of the wallpaper, and then cut it out carefully.
Next the kids created a Jurassic landscape for their dinosaurs. Using oil pastels, the children filled a sheet of white paper with mountains, volcanoes, trees and plants, to create a perfect habitat for their roaring reptiles!
To view more of the children’s texture-saurus collages please click through the gallery below.
For more project ideas using textured wallpaper, take a look at my recent posts, Snowy Mountains: Wallpaper Collage (January 2013) and Snowy Owls: Torn Paper Collage (January 2013). A further dinosaur project with textured wallpaper for younger kindergartners will follow soon.
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[…] or animals, so the project I did with my five and six year olds – Texture-saurus! Dinosaur Collage (April 2013) – would not have been suitable. However, I still wanted to use the same, textured wallpaper, that […]