Family Photo Collage

• A family photo collage is appropriate for a child to make. If you have pictures online, you could print a few dozen of them and see what your child comes up with. Or you could have an extra set of prints made of family photos. The child can also put family-oriented words such as "happy" or "sisters" interspersed between pictures. All a child needs is a piece of posterboard, a glue stick, construction paper for writing words of various shapes and some family pictures.
  
  

Favorite Animals Collage

• Children are usually very fond of animals. If you have some old "National Geographic" magazines or other magazines that contain pictures of animals, your child can cut these pictures out and arrange them on her posterboard. She could write something like, "Animals of the World" in pencil and trace it in craft glue. Then, she could shake glitter over the glue-outlined letters to finish off her jazzy animals collage.
  
  

Earth Day

• Making a collage for Earth Day is beneficial in helping a child to learn what Earth Day is about. He could cut out scenes from nature, such as hills, squirrels, hills, mountains, rivers and deer and paste them onto his posterboard. He could also write Earth Day sayings on his posterboard that he makes up like "Throw Away Trash" and "Mother Earth is Fragile. Handle with Care."
  
  

Vacation Collage

• Vacations are memorable events for children. A vacation collage could include a nut, a leaf, a brochure from a national park, a pen from a motel room the family stayed in and anything else that the child's imagination comes up with that relates to the last family vacation. She can also cut out butterflies and flowers and buildings from construction paper. She could have a winding two-lane road made from construction paper running through her vacation collage, with a car cutout from a magazine sitting on the road.