This lesson was an introductory lesson for printmaking. They themed this lesson around the winter holiday season and in the end we turned our prints into holiday greeting cards. So, first we designed and drew our winter landscape on a piece of paper, keeping in mind that we needed to include foreground, middle ground, and background. Once we had our winter landscape drawn we put our drawing face up on top of a piece of styrofoam, the same size as our drawing. Then, we traced over our drawing pressing hard with our pencils to leave an indentation on the styrofoam. Next, we took our drawing off of the styrofoam and went over our indentation with a pen to make sure that we had it deep enough. Finally, we inked up our rollers, transferred the ink to our styrofoam printing blocks and printed on a white sheet of paper. After we were done making two prints, we attached them to our folded construction paper to create our cards!
I love printmaking! Its something fun and different for kids to explore. I would use this lesson as a starting point for teaching some of the basic techniques needed for printmaking. To build off of it, I would incorporate more of the pop culture that was mentioned at the beginning of the lesson. I would have my students think about what is popular in their own culture and have them make a series of four, pop culture prints. The series of four would be the same print block, but using different colors, mirroring some of Andy Warhol's work.
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