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How to Create Mosaics
Can you imagine creating a picture with postage
stamps? Or with rocks, or seeds, or bits of paper?
You can.
You can even make a picture with your breakfast cereals!
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This kind of picture is called a mosaic.
It has a soft,smooth sound and is easy to say.
Try it aloud.MO -ZA -IK.
Mosaics are made by putting together small
pieces of materials of various colors and attaching
them to a background to form a design or a picture.
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Of course, it isn't like painting a picture with a brush.
But when you make a mosaic,you use bits of
material in muchthe same way you use different color paints to paint a picture.
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CONTENTS
I Wonder How to Create Mosaics
Start with Paper
Design with Color
Design with Shapes
Paper Mosaic Portraits and Pictures
Boxes —All Shapes,Sizes,and Colors!
Look in the Kitchen Cupboard
Create with Hard Materials
Practice with Pebbles
Create with Tile and Glass and Broken Dishes
Use Clay Tiles
Start a Mosaic Club
Mosaic Murals
Become a Creative Collector
Play a Game
Have an Exhibit
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