Starry Night Tissue Collage

When starting this lesson we took different colors of tissue paper and cut many different shapes we wanted. The shapes consisted of swirls, different shapes, etc. After all of the tissue paper was cut it was placed on a piece of construction paper, either black or blue. The pieces of tissue paper were glued down onto the construction paper. Once the tissue paper was glued down, then we painted over our entire project with a glue adhesive. While that was drying we then cut out a city to glue on top of the construction paper. Using oil pastels windows and doors were drawn onto the cut-out city. The city was glued down onto the tissue paper/construction paper. After gluing down the city, then using oil pastels we drew different designs in the sky and on the tissue paper.

An extension activity that could be done with this art project would be to learn about the galaxy and about the atmosphere. We would talk about the different galaxies and their background of what they mean.