What you need:

Junk mail and/or old magazines

Glue stick

Cardboard

You must be joking? The average American generates more than 4 pounds of trash per day.

Did you know? The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 75 percent of the American waste stream is recyclable, but we only recycle about 30 percent of it.

This mosaic portrait is made by cutting up small pieces of junk mail. Reuse a piece of sturdy cardboard for your “canvas” and draw or trace figure.
With a glue stick, glue pieces no larger than ¼”, you are basically repurposing paper into tesserae, the small pieces used for mosaics. Make sure to leave space between your tesserae to give the appearance of grout lines. Grout lines help to adjoin objects into one cohesive piece.
When all your pieces are glued, finish with a coat of water based sealer.

Example: