The perfect fundraiser for the classroom teacher. Description:
This is a great opportunity to learn the fundamentals of drawing through collage.
Your students can create beautiful artwork as part of the paper magic fundraising program . The artists at paper magic will teach your students how to use simple shapes and lines to create almost anything. These bright vibrant paper collages will illustrate their interest, favorite activities, and their school. Paper magic will turn your students artwork into a beautiful set of greeting cards with
coordinating envelopes.This is a ideal gift for grandparents, aunts, teachers, uncles, babysitters and more. This is a fun classroom activity that your students and their parents will not forget. Paper Magic will supply everything needed for the activity all the teacher needs to supply is their students. History of paper magic, from the founder:
The first Paper Magic program was really pure magic. A principal of an elementary school came to a gallery where I was showing my work. She told me that her students loved collage…. they all knew the Eric Carle and Leo Leonni children’s books. She asked me if I would come to her schooll to talk to students about how I made my collages and what got me interested in making art my career. I remember taking her card but not thinking much about the idea. But maybe that was just fear of the unknown. A few weeks later I called her and said that while I would not be interested in doing a “show and tell” I would be willing to bring some art-boards, paper, glue and scissors so all of the students could make their own collage. And she agreed. Next thing I knew I was in front of a class of third graders. I showed them some of my collages and explained that I did not know how to draw very well and couldn’t paint at all but that I learned I could cut and paste pieces of paper and make them into artwork I liked. I remember telling them that I was going to have them sign their collage just like I sign mine and the school was going to hang them up for everyone to see. But the magic happened when I asked the class to think about what would be on their first collage…what would they like to have on their special collage? Their hands went up like a wave.
“My dog”
“My mom had a new baby”
“I like to play in piles of leaves”
“I’m a quarterback”
“My parakeet is blue and white”
You cannot believe the collages these students made in one class. That was the beginning.
30,000 students and 150 schools later the energy is always the same. Paper Magic evolved to include the notecards and fundraising concepts which made the program attractive to so many schools whose art programs had been cut back or who might not have been able to provide a special program like this on their own. But the magic has always remained.
