….and then cutting them into squares, rectangles, circles and triangles to create buildings
The advantage of cutting out shapes from magazines or books is the added texture one gets. It is easier to just cut up construction paper but the act of looking for colour swatches in magazines teaches children and adults about the vast range of one colour (i.e., red can be cool (blue undertones) or warm (more yellow undertones), dark (with the addition of black) or light (by adding white) and vibrant or muted).
After a class of cutting and sorting colours we were ready to start cutting our shapes and layering our pieces to create a collage of buildings. My grade threes were allowed to create a landscape of countryside buildings or a cityscape and they were encouraged to add foreground details and/or background details. The last step involved adding details with a black Sharpie and paint dots to make the whole piece come alive. The following are examples from one of my grade three classes.
Mama Cormier 
Find this so beautiful!
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I think teaching art to children will be the one thing I miss most when I retire.
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What fun. I especially like the third one.
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Mason would be especially proud to hear that.
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Cool. I like all of them! Thanks.
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I’ve learned over the years to find something special in all children’s art.
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Children and their art (imagination) always goes straight to the heart! Just lovely.
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It’s so true. Sometimes it just takes a word of encouragement to take it a little further and they always surprise me with what they come up with.
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