Collaged Houses

There is something very appealing about creating a piece of art that involves imagery of houses. I don't know if it is just the idea of "home" or the appeal of the shape of a house the way it is depicted by young children, generally a triangle on top of a square. I like to think that it is a combination of an image of comfort and the unlimited possibilities to embellish.

 

This was a project that I did with pre-schoolers. The houses were cut out of poster board. The children had many choices of materials, most that were already cut, to create their house. They had burlap or craft foam triangles for the roof, felt rectangles with peel off backs for the windows and doors, buttons for doorknobs, strips of pretty ribbon for shutters, and rolls of decorative tape to be used however they saw fit. One child added a door for the cat! It seemed that the houses became more special as the decorations were piled on.