{"id":1179,"date":"2009-07-17T23:48:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T22:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2009-07-17T23:48:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T22:48:48","slug":"mosaic-making-with-children-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/mosaic-making-with-children-shapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosaic making with children – shapes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the things about making mosaics is that you need definition to the pattern or edge of a picture you are making. This is normally done using the edge of different colour \/ texture tiles and the line created by grouting which gives mosaic its distinctive flow or ‘andamento<\/span>‘ (the technical term!).<\/p>\n

It is hard for children, especially young ones, to lay tiles with enough accuracy that the line is clear enough. But there are ways of setting up mosaic activites<\/span> that helps them to do this and begin to learn about line as an element of design.<\/p>\n

The easiest way is to mosaic shapes, the edge of the the shape therefore naturally creating the line for them.<\/p>\n

Activity Three – Mosaicing<\/span> Shapes<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can either prepare your own shapes from card \/ cardboard \/ dough \/ salt dough \/ wood \/ polymer clay or buy pre<\/span> made ones.<\/p>\n

Use plenty of PVA<\/span> glue – remember to teach children not to spread to thinly but to make a little ‘glue mountain’ to stick their pieces on.<\/p>\n

See the post entitled ‘Materials for making Mosaics with children’ post for ideas of the kind of things you can use as ’tiles’ for sticking.<\/p>\n

Allow one side of your shape to dry overnight before mosacing<\/span> the other side and then hanging. The shinier the objects you use the more they will twinkle as they turn!<\/p>\n

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In the top picture you can see Isabella’s star shape made with thin card, PVA<\/span> (white) glue and shells. The second lot of photos is a mosaic craft activity I just did in my children’s little Montessori nursery. Here we used star and moon shapes that I prepared beforehand from a thick cardboard box then painted silver and gold. For sticking we used painted beans, beads (the cheap strings of beads you get at Christmas<\/span>, cut up) and old shiny packaging cut into squares and triangles. I will be going back to the nursery next week to help the children do the other side and I will post a picture of the finished stars and moons hanging in the sleeping room at the nursery!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things about making mosaics is that you need definition to the pattern or edge of a picture you are making. This is normally done using the edge of different colour \/ texture tiles and the line created by grouting which gives mosaic its distinctive flow or ‘andamento‘ (the technical term!). It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,26,23,18,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artful-living","category-get-creative-arty-crafty-tutorials-and-ideas","category-make-mosaics-with-children","category-mosaic-loving","category-nurturing-creativity-in-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}