Making a family collage

Designing a family collage is great fun and will provide wonderful memories for both you and your children

To get started, you will need a few basic items: scissors, sticky tape, glue, cardboard or thick paper, as well as magazines and other materials to incorporate into your collage.

Our family favourites

Find photographs of you and your children and paste them onto cardboard. Surround the photographs with all your favourite items, like favourite colours, pictures of your favourite hobbies, photographs of your favourite foods and favourite animals.

The family history collage

This makes a great show-and-tell show and tell project. Dig up old black-and-white photographs of your family from any time period. Then research that time period. Use your library to make copies of old newspapers that reveal information about the times of the pictures. Rummage through history magazines to find pictures from that time period and add them to the collage.

Special day collage

Take a special day, such as your child's birthday, and research that date. Put a photo of your child in the middle and pictures of what you looked like when your child was born. Include headlines of what was happening that day. You can research other trends of the day, such as top hits, top films and what was big on television. Use words or other cut-outs to represent your findings.