How to Make a Collage

Make a Collage when you feel dissatisfied with how your life turned out. Find images of what you had wanted back then, and compare them to see if that is how your life actually turned out.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Large Poster
• Scissors
• Paste
• Cut out pictures

1. Cut out pictures of people you admire; their hair styles, hair coloring, size and demeanor. Make a Collage and ind pictures of what you look like now and how you had wanted to look.

2. Do not look at prices or costs but instead select a house, an apartment, a boat or a yacht you feel you would ''love to have'' and then find a picture of where you live now.

3. Find an image of a man or woman when you make a collage tht you always wished you had married or even an outfit you love. Perhaps a school you hoped you could have gone to or a job you never got and always wanted.

4. Keep turning the pages until you say to yourself..."Oh wow! I wish I looked like this" - then cut it out and save it. Be selective, be honest, and look from your heart and not your mind.

5. Take your time as part of the therapy when you make a collage, is looking, searching, and trying to find the person you seemed to have lost in the process of growing up.

6. Bring out the inner child within who had dreamed big dreams, and allow yourself to be guided from your imagination and memories of your past yearnings. Reveal all this when you make a collage.

7. Place the pictures on a large cardboard and format it before pasting. This is your life you are pasting so keep that in mind when you organize the pictures.

Tips & Warnings

• Do not look with any particular image in mind.
• Be truthful and honest and understand that this is something you are doing just for yourself.
• Creating a collage is fun and enjoyable and an inexpensive past time to remove you from the stresses of your everyday life.
• The collage just might reveal that the imaginary person you have been making up is much like you are now.
• Once that realization sets in the unrest and turmoil within you, the anger you might feel at yourself for not being what you had wanted to be might cease, and you can be a happier and more content person.
• This is only a bit of therapy and picture play. Take it as such, and so not feel that this is an accurate way to find out if your dreams in the past, came true. If it happens to turn out that way, then great! If not, then you had some fun and lost nothing.

Resources

• Design Rocks
• Write Free Verse Poetry
• Write a Poem to the One You Love
• Remember to take Daily Pills

[manualkhan]

on 11/20/2009 Great, thanks.

[BodyLogique]

on 6/12/2009 Collage Art is a great idea. I use this technique with some of the kids I work with. Good for focus, goal setting & also very relaxing.5*

[langleycornwell]

on 4/27/2009 This is a really interesting article on making a collage. Thanks, 5*s.

[Felicity]

on 10/19/2008 Nice one - thanks for the helpful ideas!

[bmi57]

on 8/9/2008 What a fun idea, thanks.