Easter Art

On Thursday before Easter, the students used foam sheets to make stamps in different Easter themed shapes and colors! Foam printing is a process where you take a dull pencil or other similar object and create a drawing or pattern in on Styrofoam. You can use printing foam or just regular picnic plates and bowls! When the drawing is finished, you color ink on the pattern and then stamp it on to paper. We all learned a lesson in innovation and problem solving, because it turns out that Crayola washable markers don't work so well as ink for foam stamps. The students suggested watercolor paints and then tempura paints. Both sort of worked, but watercolor produced a blurry, abstract form and tempura paints had a tendency to smear. However, we all worked hard at trying to make something work in the spirit of Easter. We worked so hard that Mr. Justin and Ms. Kim forgot to take pictures of our finished projects!