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Start with a brief history of mosaics and discuss their importance in various cultures. Show examples of mosaics from around the world to inspire students.

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Provide students with colored paper cut into small pieces and have them glue the pieces onto a template to create a simple mosaic pattern.

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Use dried beans and seeds to create mosaic art. This activity helps students explore textures and patterns, reinforcing the concept of mosaic through a different medium.

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Collect leaves, twigs, and flowers to create a nature-inspired mosaic on a piece of cardboard. Encourage students to think about color and texture.

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Students select a portrait or animal picture and recreate it using small pieces of colored paper, focusing on detail and shading to bring their picture to life.

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Use modeling clay in different colors to create mosaic tiles. Students can press shapes into the clay to form patterns, bake them if needed, and arrange them into a mosaic art piece.

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Introduce a simple digital tool or app that allows students to create mosaic artwork digitally. This is a great way to integrate technology into art education.

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Digital Mosaics

This digital art assignment was a winner with both my hybrid and remote students! This is easily doable as a fully remote lesson if students have a Google Drive account. Using the program "Google Draw", we drew colored "tiles" over an image of our choosing, piecing them together much like how a traditional mosaic is an arrangement of stone or ceramic tiles. When we finished creating our digital tiles, we deleted the photo, leaving just our drawn segments. We added a colored background, either a solid color or a custom designed gradient. There are many tutorials online for how to do this technique. I had my students watch THIS ONE, by Janette Islas.

I supplemented their instruction with THIS PACKET, which had screenshots of how to set up their mosaic and of the different tool functions available in Google Draw. ( See below for a downloadable PDF version)

My 7th graders completely wowed me with the level of detail they achieved! What was also great was how I could see them working, in real time, on their projects. (If you have your students share the file with you, you can monitor their progress, help them with specific functions, and even see when their last edit was made!)

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This digital art assignment was a winner with both my hybrid and remote students! This is easily doable as a fully remote lesson if students have a Google Drive account. Using the program "Google Draw", we drew colored "tiles" over an image of our choosing, piecing them together much like how a traditional mosaic is...

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Encourage students to bring in small recyclable materials from home (plastic lids, bottle caps, small boxes) to create a mosaic on a large piece of cardboard. This teaches the value of recycling alongside art-making.

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Supply sheets of stickers in various colors and shapes and allow students to create mosaic patterns on paper or a template. This activity is excellent for fine motor skills development.

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Each student creates a small mosaic piece. Together, the class arranges all pieces to narrate a story or theme, discussing the significance of each piece to the overall story.