Holiday Prints

The art topic that our next peer lesson did was, print making. They started their lesson by talking about different holidays. They told us that we could pick one of our favorite holidays and then using a pencil draw that into the foam trays they provided for us. Once we had our holidays drawn out, we then got another foam tray and on this one we had to draw shapes. For my holiday tray, I picked valentines day and drew a bunch of hearts and xoxo's. For my shape try, I just drew triangles, circles, and squares and made them into a pattern. The last step to this lesson was to paint your foam trays and then press them against paper and use a roller to flatten it. Once you had rolled good and hard you lifted it up and your foam tray and transferred onto the paper to make a print. This group had us write a couple sentences at the end of their lesson about why we chose the holiday we did for our prints.

An extension activity for this would be to have my 2nd grade students draw different seasons on the foam tray. They would have to be very specific on the details they used for each season so that I could figure out the difference between each season. Since they would have to be specific on their details, I would be able to assess who had paid attention in our lesson about season, by how descriptive their prints were.