Project #11 Print It!

This lesson was taught by Allison Vetch and Laura Opsahl. They started out the lesson by explaining the art instruments that we would be using and telling us a little about each of them. They then read through an Easter book where a chicken would lay different colors and different designs of eggs. We were instructed to draw a picture of our own egg that we would be printing later. I drew flowers and ribbons on my egg as well as including my name. We then were given a piece of Styrofoam to draw our egg into. We used sticks to puncture the Styrofoam into our designs of our eggs. We then went on to the ink and we used rollers to roll the ink onto the Styrofoam pieces. Then we placed a piece of paper over the foam and pressed them tightly together so that ink covered the entire design of our egg onto the paper. There were 5 colors of ink to choose from. I chose yellow, red, blue, and silver ink to roll onto my foam piece. We were then instructed to let our prints dry for at least 24 hours. After they were dry, we glued all 4 prints onto a construction paper.

For an extension activity to this project, I would have my students experiment with using paint brushes on the prints instead of rollers. The reason they would need to use paint brushes would be so that they can add as many colors to their picture as possible. For example, instead of my egg being one color only, we would use the paint brushes to color the ribbons red and the flowers blue, I would paint my name silver and have the outside of the egg be yellow. The pictures would not just be one color, but be full of color.