Collage Art for Conversations around Food, Food Groups and Health
Ice cream Cone Project Collages: A group project that inspires sharing
Pre-school through elementary school age appropriate
Vocabulary: Basic shapes (circle, square, triangle, and rectangle), all over pattern, texture, repetition, collage
Materials: Manila paper (recycled files and faded and yellowed paper work well, too), scrap construction paper, glue, markers, scissors
Directions:
- Start with square piece of paper, fold and unfold along diagonal
- Fold each side to center
- Folded paper becomes the cone, triangle at the top becomes ice cream
- Add additional ice cream flavors or half circle colors of construction paper
- Add toppings (each student can be assigned to make their own and have to share)
- Lines can be drawn on cone with color pencils, crayons, or markers
Opportunity for Discussion and Play:
- Students can pretend their group is an ice cream shop
- Create restaurant name, menu with prices and descriptions for different toppings with titles of different kinds of ice creams
- How is ice cream made?
- Allergies and alternatives for ice cream – sherbet, gelato, non-dairy ice cream, ice milk
See also: Pizza Collage and Sandwich Collage