YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT

This lesson is a fun way to combine art and science. Using collage to learn about food and nutrition, as well as, good and poor eating habits. In addition to exploring what keeps the body healthy, small motor skills are helped to develop with this very low cost activity.

This is a very low cost art project. The supplies you need are a pair of scissors, old magazines, construction paper and a glue stick. It is important to use a glue stick. liquid glue such as elmers curls the magazine papers and your images will not lay flat.

Old cook books, grocery store flyers and actual food packaging are also good to use for the collage.

draw the figure on construction paper. I usually make a template for the kids to trace.

skin tone construction paper

cut and glue the figure to a larger sheet of base paper.

For two or more figures, fold the construction paper and place the arms and legs of the template on the fold.

cut and glue to larger sheet of base paper.

search magazines for food images to use in the collage

when images have been collected begin to carefully cut the sources and glue them onto the collage.

add a face

oyster hair, cauliflower and radicchio earrings

shrimp shoes

add more detail to enhance and finish the collage.

The collage can have a theme, this one is BREAKFAST

SEAFOOD

WINTER

SPRING

SUMMER

AUTUMN

WINE CELLAR

TEA FOR TWO

PICKLED

UNDER THE WEATHER

BIRTHDAY PARTY

CARBOHYDRATES

ASIAN CUISIAN

COFFEE BREAK

SNACKS

FOOD FOR THOUGHT