I teach children with multiple complex needs who will probably never be able to draw complex images; but that doesn't mean they can't make art in the style of some of the greats. Eric Carle books are fun to read to these students because of the repetition makes it easy for them to make predictions. There's also fun features to their books with different size pages, holes for fingers to explore. They teach numbers, colors, animal names, time telling, days of the week, and of course the life cycle of a butterfly. But what I wanted to my students to learn most, was the process that Eric Carle used to create his pictures.
As a class painted big pieces of bulletin board paper, cut shapes out and collaged them to a piece of construction paper.
Triangles, circles and rectangles could transform into a Christmas tree of ornaments.
Squares transformed into gifts with the help of colored masking tape turned ribbon and bows.
Once this concept played out, we used the concept of collage to make tactile wreathes from torn up scraps of tissue paper. Even students with no vision and little muscle control could tear, drop, and pat pieces into place.
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