How-to: Activity

1. Decide if the painting is going to be vertical stripes or concentric circles or squares. If it’s going to be a circle or square, make a small circle or square right in the middle of the square piece of paper in any color.

Teachers: Making a small dot in the center of the paper could help the student a lot!

2. On the circle or square choose a different color to make small square/rectangles, as a band of tiles all around your center color. Make sure to leave space between each tile so the paper shows through for full the mosaic look. Choose a second color, again, wrapping the same size tiles around your first band of color. Make sure to leave space between each tile. Repeat bands of various colors making the circle or square bigger until you reach the edges of the paper. Don’t forget the color white!.

3. If you choose to do vertical stripes again choose any color to start on one side making vertical squares/rectangles in a line down one side of the paper. Make sure to leave some space between the tiles. Choose any second color and repeat right next to your first stripe of color. Repeat tiles of various colors until you reach the opposite edge of the paper. Attention to detail and taking care to keep your lines and tiles consistant is important with this project. It might help to keep rotating the paper around as you are painting.