Printmaking

For this project, Courtney and Rachel taught us how to do print making. We learned about two different artists that used printmaking in their artwork. First, we chose what animal we wanted to draw. We took a sheet of paper and drew our animal, I chose a giraffe. Then we took the sheet of paper and transferred it onto a Styrofoam piece. We then learned how to take the styrofoam piece and use that to create a print of our animal. We took white paint and used a roller brush and rolled it all over the front of our sytrofoam piece and then flipped it over on the black sheet of construction paper and to create a print of our animal. Then we took the black sheet of construction paper and print after it dried and glued it to a bigger colored piece of construction paper. We then created a flier for the Hub City Zoo using alliteration with for the name of our animal and the special thing about them.

An extension activity for this project could include writing a brief explanation of what the Hub City Zoo has to offer as well. This can be attached beneath the flier and could be used as a more informative piece of the Zoo. This would also work with their writing skills as well as working with the flier.