Mini collages

I am in a collage making course these days offered by Shelley Klammer, called Affirmative Collage Play. Shelley is therapist who offers many, varied, affordable online expressive arts courses. Go to www.coursecraft.net if you would like to explore!

To make an affirmative collage, choose one magazine and cut out 4 or 5 images from the magazine that appeal to you. Glue or scotch tape these to a piece of paper like a piece of photocopy paper. Then step back and look at what you have created. Give a title to your collage. Then write a little 3 line poem about your collage.

This whole process can take as little as 10 minutes or as long as 30 minutes, depending on the time you have available. I am trying to make one daily, and I am finding it to be an enjoyable, tactile, easy, calming and centering activity I look forward to engaging in each afternoon before supper. After I make each collage, I am placing it where I can look at it for the rest of the day. I invite you to give it a try too!