Description: Through a powerpoint, we learned about the history of printmaking. For this printmaking lesson, we made Christmas ornaments. We began by sketching two different designs, on the rubric, that related to us, our family, our culture, etc. Between the two designs, we chose one. We then took the design we chose and drew that onto a smaller square piece of paper. After we had the drawing done, we took the paper and laid it on top of a piece of styrofoam, taping one side together so it didn't move. We then traced the drawing onto the styrofoam, pressing quite hard so it would go through. We then cut it out. Next it was time for the painting part; we took our cut out ornament and piece of white or black construction paper to the paint stations. We laid our ornament on a plain sheet of paper. We took a brayer (roller) and rolled it evenly through the paint, followed up with rolling it over the ornament to coat it evenly. We then took the ornament and rolled it onto our construction paper using a dry brayer and applying really good pressure. We repeated this process one more time with our ornament and then two times with our partner's ornament. Between the partners, one's ornaments were blue and the other's were red. Lastly, we drew the strings as if the ornaments were hanging.
I did a Christmas tree because Christmas is my favorite holiday (red). My partner did a spider with a web because she loves Spiderman (blue).
Extension Activity: An extension activity that I would do is creating a collage. I would have the students create their designs based around a theme (maybe Christmas). Then I would have them printmake all of their designs onto the same sheet to create one big collage. Then they could talk with a partner about their designs and why they chose that specific design.
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