Media, radio, television, cartoon.... all of which children are exposed to on a daily basis. The question is whether or not it is a negative or positive exposure? Personally anything that is over done or watched can have it's negative toll but that does not mean it is completely harmful to children. From my experiences with children they watch a minimum of two hours a day of cartoons and T.V. It becomes a mesh or collage of cartoons running around in their heads. Some time my nephews pretend play by adding characters from their favorite show all in one act. All I hear is "never fear spongbob is here! lets go to dexter's laboratory to find the poison fish" Something like what is seen in this picture. A definition of the word
Collage is an artwork composed of different shapes and elements (p.364). I think that a collage is not only based on art but can also be incorporated into one's mind and thought.
The reason I chose this collage is because so many of my experiences with children at play are involved with cartoon characters or actions mimicked from tv. When asked to create a collage as a child and even during my experiences with children, the first form of materials children are given to work with are dry foods, paint and pictures from magazines. So why not use pictures of cartoon characters? they're colorful, fun looking and familiar!
Activity for collage
1) provide ample amount of different cartoon characters from many different shows and cultures.
2) bring one large black paper, scissors and glue
3) have the children choose, cut and paste the different pictures onto the one big paper
Final product = inside the mind of a child : D
References
Schirrmacher, R., & Fox, J.E. (2009). Art and creative development for young children (6th Ed.). Belmont, CA: Delmar
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