Jazz Music Collage

This project was in collaboration with the music teacher.  I took the music sheet to the song the class was singing/dancing to in the Black History Month Concert & had the students use these as part of their collage.  An Autistic Class completed these.  The students ranged from 1st to fourth grade.  We focus on manipulation of materials as well as arrangement/spacing.  Key Concepts that are reviewed are Collage, Warm vs. Cool Colors, Background, three-dimensional vs. two dimensional.  

The first thing I do is dump a bunch of music notes onto their tables.  These I have cut out of manila folders.  The students pick which ones they want and tape them onto their paper.  


Next, the students are given warm colors ( I tell them to think of a flame)  They sponge paint their papers going right over their music notes.  

We practice the up and down stamping motion.  A few kids still tried to wipe or slide their sponge like a paint brush.  

When done we pulled off the music note stencils to reveal white spaces shaped like music notes.  

Cool color markers (think of Ocean) were used to color in the music notes with different patterns.  

Strips of the music sheets were cut out and I demonstrated to the students how to glue the strips down so they stuck up.  I really liked the way the music strips look like this!