The 5th/6th grade class has been carving stamps from soft cut blocks. They used acrylic paints to print their stamps on muslin cloth! The students read about the African Adinkra symbol stamps and created their own symbol.
2nd grade Collographs:We read about the art of Jasper Johns. He used everyday, ordinary images and created art so people would view them in a new way. We made a collograph printing plate using letters and numbers cut from foam, alphabet letters, cardboard and foam shapes. Then we printed them on white paper. For some of these, we glued colorful shapes on the paper before we printed.
In this previous blog post, I showed you how we started our printed faces project. We finished our printed faces this week. The kids colored in the faces with markers or crayons. Then, they used rubber stamp letters to print words on the pictures. They are so fun!
This week the 1st graders started making printed pictures of faces. 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. 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 … Read more…
After experimenting with several ways of doing bubble prints, I think I found a way that works well. I poured some kids bubbles into small containers. Then, I mixed a few drops of food coloring into the containers. The bubbles were cheapo and weren’t really bubbly, so I added some dish soap as well. Then, I blew bubbles just as you normally would blow bubbles and let them land on the paper. When they popped, they left these splatters and … Read more…
Here are some of the finished styrofoam Valentine’s prints by the 1st graders. One trick that made these work MUCH better is when I dug out the jar of ink-retarder. The prints look so much better than the first ones we printed.
My 5th and 6th grade class carved stamps from E-Z Cut and then we printed them many times. They looked at African Adinkra stamps and then used those designs for inspiration. We printed them on artist trading cards, a design on paper and then on two large group artworks. The ones pictured here are our large group artworks. We are going to put this artwork in the school raffle fundraiser at the end of the year. I’m also going to … Read more…
