Pop Art is all around us. Its on our cereal boxes, our clothes detergent (preferably the eco-friendly kind!), our toothpaste. Pop Art is born out of the mass media that surrounds us daily. Or perhaps you’ve ordered from My Pop Art, where the artists there turned your best photo into a Pop Art masterpiece.

If you have kids, you can teach them to find the artistry in the media images that surround us daily. Make a Pop Art collage, for instance:

The nice part with a Pop Art collage is you really don’t have to buy any crafty material for it, other than perhaps a small posterboard. Dig through your recycling and pull out some boxes and containers and magazines. Give your child a safe pair of scissors (and get a pair yourself while you’re at it) and start clipping out the images that resonate with you. Feel free to be bold and experiment. Gather the most outrageous images or maybe some sublimely simple ones.

When you’re done chopping, arrange the images on the posterboard as you see fit. Again, feel free to take some changes. That model could easily have a bunch of bananas for his head! That image of a washing machine could have an elephant on top of it.

This is a great exercise for children to teach them to “think outside of the box.” Most of the time in school, even creative exercises are streamlined and rulebound. This allows the child – and yourself – to think more freely, which your imagination loves.

Doing this Pop Art collage exercise helps you control the images that we’re bombarded with daily. It gives you a sense of needed distance, to see the art in our daily lives in a creative, healthy way.