The Five Elements
Collage Activity

• Use a different piece of craft paper for each of the classic "five elements" identified by Chinese philosophy (see online lecture notes). You may choose to use appropriately colored paper for each element (see feng shui Website references in lecture notes for suggestions regarding appropriate colors for each element)

• Locate, group and paste images representing each element onto the papers.

• Label each collection of images appropriately.

• Five pages total, each displaying a different element. You may want to connect the pages in some way - e.g., by linking them together using ribbon

Here's what one student did:

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Here's another example

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