The Harmony of Opposites
Collage Activity

• Locate images representing pairs of opposites - two separate images for each pair (example: a picture of a boy and a picture of a girl)

• Print or draw a collection of Yin-Yang symbols of varying sizes large enough to paste your images onto. To print a Yin-Yang symbol from your computer:

Use font: Wingdings font and type a left bracket: [ 

That should be the Yin-yang symbol: [

You can make it as large as you need (to the limits of your paper) by typing in the number of points in the font size window (I found that 650 points was about the largest I could get on a standard size piece of printer paper).

You'll need to trim and limit the size of the images you locate due to limitations in the size of the Yin-Yang you can print.

• Paste each image for each pair onto a single Yin-Yang symbol so that one image is on the dark half and the opposing image is on the light half. Keep in mind that the dark and light halves of the Yin-Yang represent certain principles. You can get an idea of which is which by reviewing this Web page: About Yin and Yang
  Use your imagination to expand on the suggestions. 

• There are at least two options as to what to do with the finished Yin-Yang symbols with images:
  1. simply glue them to a poster or larger piece of paper to make a collage.
  2. make a mobile out of them. This is a nice idea because both mobiles and Taoism are about maintaining balance! To make a mobile, glue two same sized Yin-Yang images back to back with string or thread of varying lengths between them. Then hang your images of varying sizes and lengths from some kind of hanger to complete your mobile.