Mega set of realistic fruits and vegetables in strong cardstock - 150 shapes

Creative Collage Workshop: Create Your Portraits in the Style of Arcimboldo! The best collage kit for children aged 5 and up!

Dive into a vibrant artistic world with this mega set of 150 fruits, vegetables, and fruits made of glossy cardstock. This creative leisure kit allows children to create original and astonishing characters using pre-cut plant elements. Inspired by the famous Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, this activity transforms art learning into a playful and colorful moment.

How to use this artistic collage kit?

1. Preparation: The 150 shapes are distributed across 8 sheets of easily detachable cardstock.
2. Assembly: The child selects a base (like a slice of watermelon or a pumpkin) to form the face, then adds details (cherry eyes, carrot nose, broccoli hair).
3. Recommended support: For optimal results, we recommend fixing these collages onto colored cardstock measuring 25 x 35 cm (available separately).
4. Collage: You can glue the shapes onto your choice of support using a glue stick or liquid white glue.

From what age can this activity be done? This collage activity is particularly recommended for children from 4 or 5 years old. At this age, children have the fine motor skills necessary to handle the pre-cut pieces without tearing them. For younger ones, face recognition (pareidolia) is a key stage in development, making character creation very rewarding. Primary school students will also find a deeper artistic interest by studying the history of art and the composition techniques of Arcimboldo.

Creative kit exclusively at 10doigts, specially designed for art classes in grade CP, CE1, and CE2 (Visual Arts cycle 2): Through collage and assembly practice, this kit emphasizes the manipulation of various materials to create images. By assembling the plant elements, children physically experience notions of space and composition. Additionally, using shapes of vegetables or fruits to represent a face is a classic exercise of cycle 2 to understand morphology and proportions. This kit allows for immediate practical application after studying the works of Giuseppe Arcimboldo: thus facilitating memorization and understanding of his unique style.

Find a printable educational sheet under the main photo to animate a workshop in class or at home!