Face Prints with Cardboard–1st Grade

This week the 1st graders started making printed pictures of faces.

A child's 1st-grade drawing of a face with square eyes, a rectangle nose, and a mouth with large teeth.

1. Cut strips of cardboard in varying widths.
2.  Place small paper plates with black paint on tables.  Give each child a piece of paper.  Demonstrate how you can dip the edges of the cardboard in paint and print lines. 

A 1st grader using a cardboard card to paint a geometric house shape with squares and rectangles on white paper.

A 1st grader painting black lines on white paper using a rectangular cardboard tool, with newspaper beneath the paper.

1st Grade child's drawing of a face with spiky hair, uneven eyes, and a wide, toothy grin on cardboard.

Next week, we will add color with crayons and markers.  I also have a box of alphabet rubberstamps which they will use to add text to their pictures if they choose.

Abstract black and white painting of a face with exaggerated features and thick brush strokes, resembling face prints on cardboard.

Black and white drawing of a robot with a hexagonal head, square eyes, a straight mouth, and cardboard antennae on top.

A child's black ink drawing of a smiling face with spiky hair, triangular nose, and crossed lines for eyes on a piece of cardboard.

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