![]() ![]() Step One Cut your wax paper into a size you’d prefer to work with – we cut our pieces into a rough 8×10.White Construction Paper (optional) or poster board for displaying the final product.Fruit By the Foot of various flavors and colors (we used this pack).This post contains affiliate links to products. And the best part? You don’t have to waste this food! You can absolutely EAT YOUR ART PROJECT when you are done…provided your parent agrees! For today’s project I will show you how to repurpose a popular snack food into an art material. In any case, true mosaics are actually quite an involved process and I love finding way to make classic art techniques a little more kid-friendly. All these make for great STEAM tie-ins….check out the Let’s Talk STEAM section below for additional information. I also find the tie-in to pixels and tech fascinating, after all, digital images are made of thousands of individual squares pieces of color called pixels that when viewed at a distance form a smooth picture. A memorable part of my year spent in Italy as an architecture student was a trip to Ravenna to see the famous Byzantine era mosaics. There is something about taking bits and pieces of glass, tile, or rock and arranging them so that they create a bigger picture, pattern, or design. ![]() Now let’s just say I adore mosaics in all forms. This summer at Camp STEAM, we devoted a week to studying the five senses and this was one of the surprise hits from the week: An easy and edible mosaic using a popular fruit snack… We’ve tried many different types of mosaics for kids over the years and this by far has been the most popular one…probably because kids can eat it afterwards! ![]()
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