Me, Myself and My Initials

This Lesson was mainly taught so that students could learn about collages through art history and how to design and cut our initials. We were first told to grab two sheets of paper. One piece of paper would be cut and the other would simply have different photographs or magazine clippings glued to it. I chose to use magazine clippings because there were so many that showed pictures of my interests and hobbies. We were then told to cut a bunch of different pictures/clippings out that would describe how we felt or what interests we had. I chose different fall and winter scenes because those are my favorite seasons. After we had cut those pictures out we then had to draw our initials out onto one of the pieces of paper. When this was done we then had to cut those our initials out and lay them aside. Then we took the paper that had been cut and set it on top of the other piece that was still completely whole. We got a good idea of where our pictures would have to be placed in order to see them after the paper that had our initials cut out of it was placed on top. After we glued all the pictures to the paper we then just simply glued the cut out paper on top of the full sheet of paper and our initials appeared clearly.

I think an extension for this project could possibly be having each student put pictures from birth until they are older and tell a story about each or tell a little bit about themselves. By doing this each student could show or tell how their life has changed and what in particular changed their life.