drawing and collage centers

"These are a boy and girl. Not boyfriend and girlfriend, just friends. They like to play together at recess."

"It's a princess. And I wanted there to by sky and ground, so I drew them on the paper."

Two fifth graders created similar collages, "What we did was, we drew a dog picture first, and then we used those shapes for kind of a pattern to cut the colored paper."

This second grader made a book to put on the back of her book! "It's my pop book, and it has words in it. Words I know."

"We got the idea to draw dragons from a dragon book. And D__ says dragons aren't real. They ARE real, aren't they teacher?"

"It's a girl, her name is 'Roxie', but her nickname is 'Rocks'. I didn't have room to write her whole name, so I just put her nickname on it.

"It's a dog picture. I want a god, but dad says no more dogs. He says we already have three kids in the house, so why do we want a dog too? But I want a dog. So this will be my pretend dog."