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Tips & Benifits For Multi-media and collage Art

Art is a natural activity to support this free play in children. The freedom to manipulate different materials in an organic and unstructured way allows for exploration and experimentation. These artistic endeavors and self-directed explorations are not only fun, but educational as well. Art allows youth to practice a wide range of skills that are useful not only for life, but also for learning.

Rest assured, your students enjoy the trust and freedom you give them with the choices you already incorporate. The more you realize your students love choice, the more likely you will love it too.

As an art teacher, it is easy to fall in love with what your students love. Here are six reasons your students love choice in the art Space.

1. Builds creative and intellective capacity.

Providing choice allows students to use their imagination to devise solutions to artistic challenges. The sky is the limit as they implement a new medium or respond with a unique spin on a specific prompt. Choice piques student curiosity, which leads to creativity!

Try it in your art room!

Students complete the phrase, “Imagine if…” For example, imagine if pigs could fly, dinosaurs were real, or dogs could talk. Students illustrate the phrase of their choice.

2. Promotes intrinsic motivation and ownership.

Choice gives a place to explore and play in your art room. Students experiment with art materials and skills to produce different outcomes. They are proud of their creations because they know the process they went through to make them.

Try it in your art room!

Invite your students to explore and play with tempera cakes on 3″ x 5″ cards, like these artist trading cards. Allow them to create as many as they want. Then, share their creations with the class and collectively brainstorm applications for their discovered techniques.

3. Supports social-emotional learning and well-being.

Adding more choice to your lessons requires students to make decisions and take artistic risks. It develops the emotional resilience your students need to face new challenges by pushing them outside of their comfort zone one choice at a time.

4. Enhances and refines technical and artistic abilities.

You don’t have to sacrifice technical and artistic skills in the name of choice. On the contrary, choice gives students an incentive to develop their abilities to execute a particular idea. In addition, the increased motivation gets students excited to learn essential art techniques.

Try it in your art room!

Run a sculpture-building boot camp where you teach students various ways to manipulate cardboard. Or challenge students to put their skills to work building an art city. Students reflect on what they accomplished and how they used what they learned.

5. Increases cultural responsiveness and inclusion.

Students from all walks of life deserve a platform for their experiences. You can create a welcoming and inclusive environment by offering curated options with the subject matter and intellectual content. As a result, students can learn from the experiences of others and become more culturally aware.

Try it in your art room!

Prompt students to create a painting of their life anthem. They can include lyrics, imagery, and colors that represent them. Then, facilitate a sharing circle where students present their artwork and answer questions.

6. Develops relevant and applicable real-world skills.

Creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking are essential 21st-century qualities that choice fosters. You can make your art experiences more meaningful and relevant by practicing skills students need long after they leave your class.

Try it in your art room!

Students draw a landscape in the medium of their choice. Then, pair them up to discuss how they can transform their landscapes into Surrealist-inspired imagery.

"Using choice art to create a landscape" refers to creating landscape art through an educational approach that allows students to make choices, such as selecting a medium, subject, or style. This differs from a traditional, prescribed art lesson by empowering students to develop their own artistic ideas and methods within a landscape theme. In this model, students are guided through the process of creating a landscape but have the freedom to choose how they execute it.  

How to use the choice art landscape approach

• Set the theme: Choose landscape as the overall theme for the project. 

• Establish the foundation: Provide instruction on fundamental landscape concepts, like the horizon line, depth, and color theory. 

• Introduce options: Present a variety of mediums, techniques, or project formats that students can choose from. For example, students could choose to make a painting, a diorama, or a collage. 

• Facilitate the choice: Allow students to select the option that best suits them. For instance, in a "Choice Board Landscapes" activity, students can choose from a grid of 12 different landscape ideas. 

• Guide the process: Support students as they work through their chosen option, providing individual guidance and feedback. 

Examples of student choices

• Medium: A student could choose to use acrylics, colored pencils, or markers, or even create a collage. 

• Subject matter: They might choose a specific type of landscape, like a beach, mountains, or a forest. 

• Style: Students could choose to paint in the style of a particular art movement, such as Impressionism, or to create a more abstract or surreal interpretation of a landscape. 

Format:

They might choose to create a traditional painting, a 3D diorama, or even a digital art piece.

Choosing FOR Collage and
mosaic ART Or Mixed Media Art

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