• About
  • contact
  • Advertise

Picklebums

Activities, recipes, free printables and life with four kids

  • Home
  • Activities for kids
  • family food
  • parenting
  • Printables
  • farm tales
  • shop

Crazy Photo Collages

Posted on May 13, 2014 11 Comments

Crazy Photo Collages - create all kinds of crazy creations with this simple collage activity. Free printable to get you started!

“Can I cut this??” My three year old asked me holding up one of the school photos from last year!
“No!” I gasped, thankful that he had asked me before he began creating his masterpiece.

Sometimes inspiration comes from the strangest things. While I wouldn’t let Noah cut up his sisters school photo and glue it onto a box, it did give me an idea for creating some photos he could cut and paste with!

I went a little crazy finding and printing photos of animals, buildings, random things… and of course of my kids. Then all I had to do is dump the photos, scissors, glue and markers onto the table, and step back and watch them create these crazy photo collages!

Crazy Photo Collages - create all kinds of crazy creations with this simple collage activity. Free printable to get you started!

These are my favourite kinds of activities, where my kids are already dreaming up what they will do before I am even done collecting the materials. It wasn’t long before all of them were busy cutting and pasting and laughing… there was a lot of laughing!

Crazy Photo Collages - create all kinds of crazy creations with this simple collage activity. Free printable to get you started!

At one point I did have to step in and ask whether we needed to make a rule about only using our own photos, or if we could all agree it was just for fun and we would not complain or get upset if our head ended up on some other creature… thankfully everyone agreed that it is was just for fun, and so the laughter continued!

Crazy Photo Collages - create all kinds of crazy creations with this simple collage activity. Free printable to get you started!

Crazy Photo Collages - create all kinds of crazy creations with this simple collage activity. Free printable to get you started!

Crazy Photo Collages - create all kinds of crazy creations with this simple collage activity. Free printable to get you started!

This open-ended project was perfect for everyone, from the three year old to 41 year old (ahem… that’s me!). We all had a great time cutting, pasting and creating whatever we could dream up.

We made weird animals like a giraffe with two heads and wings, and a guinea pig bear! We made funny people, like penguin Morgan, Noah Horse, and a lion man who seems to be wearing Morgan’s pajamas! We even made some scary beasts like the crazy monster building giant!

All the images we used, apart from the photos of my kids, are public domain images and came from Pixabay. You can search Pixabay images by category and find all kinds of images to use. I converted all the images to black and white to save on printer ink and so that we could add our own colour.

Crazy Photo Collages - create all kinds of crazy creations with this simple collage activity. Free printable to get you started!

You can download the five page photo pdf we used to make the collages here.

After an hour all we were left with were scraps…

I wonder what we can do with them!?

Crazy Photo Collages - create all kinds of crazy creations with this simple collage activity. Free printable to get you started!

175 shares
  • Share
  • Tweet

Filed Under: Activities for kids, Fun for Everyone, Printables Tagged With: activities for children, activities for preschoolers, activities for school kids, art for kids, printables

Read the comments or scroll down to add your own:

  1. Emma @ P is for Preschooler says

    This looks so fun (I would totally want to get in on it too!). It’s a great way to practice cutting and get creative!

    Reply
  2. Christie - Childhood 101 says

    So much fun! What a great idea :)

    Reply
  3. Em @ snowingindoors says

    This looks great, it’s definitely getting added to the summer bucket list, thanks Kate, everytime I read your blog I go away with another activity to try with my kiddos xx

    Reply
  4. Kate - Laughing Kids Learn says

    This is such a great idea and I love that you’ve given some photos to print out! Yes, glad Noah asked you about the school photo. LOL

    Reply
  5. Veens @ Our Ordinary Life says

    Ohhh! How absolutely FUN! I am going to download and do them today :) Good thing, I had nothing planned :)

    Reply
  6. Natalie PlanetSmartyPants says

    Love this idea! It reminded me a little of Salvador Dali work.

    Reply
  7. Maxabella says

    Tops idea, Kate. x

    Reply
  8. Emma T says

    Great idea. My son would love the cutting part the most!

    Reply
  9. Laura says

    I did this with my class yesterday and they loved it! They thought it was hilarious – we had giant children looming over castles, trees growing out of people’s heads, lions roaring in people’s ears…! Thank you for providing the images in such an easy format.

    Reply
  10. Ana says

    Love it! Collage was one of my favorite art projects as a kid!

    Reply
  11. Tracey in Hong Kong says

    I love this, my printer is busy already!

    Thanks a million for such a simple yet fabulous idea.

    Tracey
    Mummy to Isabella & Leila

    Reply

Leave a Comment Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Home » Crazy Photo Collages
welcome
pinterestfacebooktwitterinstagram

Search around a bit…

You might also like…

ocean playdough with fish, shells and more

Ocean Playdough – Free Printable Accessories

Free printable play dough mats - print all of our play dough mats for loads of play dough fun!

Fabulous Free Printable Play Dough Mats

Find our printable puppets here Find our easy art activities here find our easy dinner recipes here

Find Activities by Age

  • Baby play
  • Toddler Fun
  • Preschooler Fun
  • School Kids Fun
  • Fun for Everyone

Subscribe to our newsleter

We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work, learn and live, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation, and we pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.

Find posts by month

Browse all my crazy categories

Copyright © 2021 • Powered by WordPress
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
  • Home
  • contact
  • advertise
  • Privacy Policy