How can I use this resource?

With this resource, you can make six different animal collages. All you need is some old newspaper, scissors, glue, and a black felt-tip pen. You can print the templates on heavy white paper and cut out the parts. Then you can use newspaper to make the body and the ears of your animals. You can also add some details with colored paper, such as spots, stripes, or patches. Finally, you can stick on some wobbly eyes (or make them with paper) and draw the mouth with a black pen. 

What does this resource contain?

This resource contains 22 pages with templates and instructions for making six animal collages: a bear, a rabbit, a koala, a racoon, a penguin, and a shark. Each animal has three pages: one with the complete template and two with the parts to cut out. The resource also provides you with some tips on how to choose and use newspaper for your collages.

Abut newspaper collages

Old newspaper is actually a particularly interesting material that contains different languages, fonts, columns, graphics, comics, photos, crossword puzzles, advertisements, movie reviews, and such, and which can fire your creativity and imagination in a very special way. The effect that even simple collages can have is quite astonishing. Collages are pictures made from different materials that are stuck together. The word ‘collage’ comes from the French word ‘coller’, meaning ‘to stick’. Many famous artists such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Max Ernst, etc. experimented with newspaper collage. The cubists, dadaists, and later the surrealists liked to use newspaper for their collages. 

Newspaper collages are also a good way to reuse old paper and reduce waste. By turning old into new, you are practicing upcycling, which is a way of transforming useless or broken materials into something valuable and beautiful. In upcycling, unusable or broken objects and materials aren’t thrown out, but instead used again in another, similar way. Often you end up with a totally different and high value product. In our case, worthless old newspaper is transformed into first-class collages! 

Download this resource today and start making your own wobbly-eyed animals! You will have fun and learn how to make amazing collages with newspaper!