Making Art: Imagine Everything Is Real, published by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2022.

NGV Kids | Making Art: Imagine Everything is Real

Some of the best European artists of the twentieth century – including Remedios Varo, Pablo Picasso, Natalia Goncharova and Georges Braque – created imaginative works of art using paper and everyday materials. Meet the artists, find out about the unusual ways they made their art and discover for yourself how to use paper in amazing ways by trying out the activities in this book!

Ages 5+

Activity Sheets for Making Art

Download sheets with patterns and pictures to use for some of the activities in this book.

Collage patterns

Print and cut out shapes from these patterned sheets to use for the abstract collage activity on pages 58–9.

 Creature pictures

Print and cut out an assortment of pictures in these sheets to use as heads, bodies or legs for the creature collage activity on pages 22–5. You could even use some of these pictures for the collage activity on pages 58–9.

 Poem and portrait templates

Print and use these templates for the poem and portrait activity on pages 46–9.

© National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2022

Published for the exhibition Making Art: Imagine Everything Is Real held at NGV International, Melbourne, 10 June – 9 October 2022. Making Art: Imagine Everything Is Real is generously supported by the Packer Family and Crown Resorts Foundations, the City of Melbourne, Spencer Ko and Taylor Fletchlett.

The National Gallery of Victoria thanks the staff and children of Albert Park Primary School, Albert Park, Victoria, for their participation in the development of activities featured in this book.

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