Scratch Art

This peer teaching group came up with a really creative way to teach us about 2D paper projects. The lesson we did was to make mother's day cards out scratch paper since that was the next holiday coming up. The first thing we did was draw a piece of paper with crayon. When drawing we had to use all the space and make sure we pressed our crayons hard when drawing. We were encouraged to use more than one color when drawing. Once we had finished coloring, we then taped the sides of our paper down and painted over our coloring with black paint. We had to make sure the paint was thick enough so that  you couldn't see any color underneath it. We then put our paper aside while we waited for it to dry. While we were waiting for it to dry we drew a design of what we wanted on another piece of paper. We then turned that piece of paper over and rubbed lead from the pencils onto the inside of that paper. We then traced our design from the pencil draw paper onto the black painted card. Once we had a trace of the design we scratched out the rest of it with a little wooden stick. By scratching the black paint away we were able to see the crayon colors beneath. The teachers required us to use two different techniques, stippling and cross-hatching in our scratch designs. Once we had our scratch out design and mother's day message written on the front, we then glued a piece of paper on the inside and wrote a little message to our moms.

  For an extension activity, I would have my 3rd grade students scratch out different animals. They would have to pick an animal and then scratch it out using the correct colors and detailed designs of that animal. After scratching out their animal I would have them write a paragraph about their animal and what details/techniques they used to make it.