How to Make a Collaborative Artwork: The Perfect Inclusive Group Art Project!
How to Make a Collaborative Artwork: The Perfect Inclusive Group Art Project!
How to Make a Collaborative Artwork: The Perfect Inclusive Group Art Project!
Learn how to make your very own puzzle piece painting!
Collaborative experiences play a vital role in senior living recreation programming and can improve the overall wellbeing of residents. These experiences serve as a powerful tool to combat social isolation by fostering connectivity and socialization among both residents and staff. Engaging in group tasks and projects not only offers a sense of purpose to residents but also allows them to work together as a team, united by a shared objective. Witnessing the tangible outcomes of their collective efforts further enhances their sense of accomplishment and fulfillment.
Step-by-Step Puzzle Piece Painting
1. Create Your “Canvas”
Artist Tip!
Use watercolour paper if you plan on adding colour to your artwork using paints.
Use printer paper if you plan on adding colour to your artwork using pastels, markers or pencil crayons.
2. Number Your Puzzle Pieces
To simplify assembly at the end of the project, number the back of each “puzzle piece” in order from one to nine, from top to bottom. This will allow for easy reassembling in Step 6! Next, flip over the assembled papers so that they are facing blank side up.
3. Draw Your Image
Draw your image over your canvas (papers), ensuring it covers all nine pieces of the puzzle. We’ve drawn tulips but you can draw anything!
Not sure what to draw? Try abstract shapes and lines.
4. Get Ready to Add Colour
Turn your artwork over and untape each of the pieces, leaving you with nine separate puzzle pieces once again. Hand out one puzzle piece to each participant for them to colour in with pencil crayons, markers, pastels or paints.
Artist Tip!
For a more cohesive final artwork, select 4 to 5 different colours for residents to choose from.
5. Reassemble Your Puzzle
Once coloured, collect each finished puzzle piece and reassemble them 3×3, in order, to create your final artwork.
6. Secure Your Artwork
When dry, flip each puzzle piece over, image-down, and ensure they are ordered correctly using the numbers listed on the back. Once the pieces are all placed in the corresponding order, connect them together using tape. Securely tape them together along the edges.
7. Frame & Display Your Artwork
As a finishing touch, place your finished puzzle piece artwork in a frame. Display your artwork in a common area of your senior living community for all residents, staff and visitors to see and admire!
