Print Making

For this lesson, we were taught a form of print making. To begin, we drew a template on a piece of paper to get an idea on what we wanted to draw. The theme the lesson was around was nature. After we had an idea, we used the back of a paintbrush or our pencil to create a sketch in foam paper. We had to draw our lines deep enough in the paper to create a good indent in the foam. After we had our picture drawn out on the foam paper, we went over to the ink station and used a roller to roll the ink on to our foam paper. Once we had enough ink on the foam we placed the foam paper with ink down onto a piece of construction paper and pressed firmly to make sure the picture on the foam would show up on the construction paper. Once we thought it was good, we lifted the foam paper up from the construction paper. The scene from the foam was now mirrored on the construction paper.

Here is a photo of my print making project:

An extension activity for this project could be to incorporate it into a literature class. The students could create a story as a class and use this print making project in order to create the illustrations that go along with their story. The class can then put their stories together to create a book.