Do you have an ever-growing supply of miscellaneous pieces (aka treasures) that your child has collected over years (or maybe just since this morning)? Give those “treasures” a new purpose.
Have your child gather up some of their smaller treasures and use them to create a beautiful, memorable picture collage frame.
These also make great gift ideas for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, birthdays, or Christmas!
Ideas for Materials:
- Gather small items that are no longer useful (except as treasures, of course): game pieces from a game long gone, buttons, foam numbers, letters, or shapes, cones, small toys, Lego, puzzle pieces, stones, feathers…
- Pieces of tissue paper, wrapping paper, construction paper, aluminum foil or stickers
Instructions
- Cut a rectangle out in the center of a piece of cardboard or poster board, large enough to see a picture through it.
2. Cut out a piece of card stock larger than the window in your frame and have your child glue a picture on it. Set it aside for now.
3. Now the fun part – have your child collect those treasures, and then decorate their frame with them.
5. After they’re finished, help them glue their picture inside the cut-out area.
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