Tips & Tricks
to creating your own collage

I believe there is no wrong way to go about creating a collage.

This is your opportunity to explore in whatever way speaks to you.

If you're unsure
where to begin...

It can be overwhelming when there are

too many materials to choose from.

Consider giving yourself restrictions

like only using two books/magazines

OR selecting 10-15 loose pages.

Find a person or animal in motion

or sitting in an interesting way

and cut them out of their picture.

Then, take your little human/animal

cut out and take them on an

adventure through scenes or

landscapes in other books/magazines.

See what interesting place they may want to land!

Go through your pages/a magazine/an old book and pull out any images and words that you are immediately drawn to.

(Try flipping through a magazine/book from back to front or even open it to a random page and see what you find by chance.)

Use scissors or other sharps to cut out people, words, objects, or shapes.

Try ripping pages up with your hands!

This can be very satisfying

and creates interesting shapes.

Play with layering images on top of each other and move things around your page until you're ready to glue them.