Peer Lesson 4: Printmaking Stamps

 

Description: For printmaking, we created personal stamps of something we drew to put onto our final paper. We practiced drawing different doodles and simple sketches of things that we liked or described something about ourselves. I drew a picture of a cat with a butterfly sitting on its head. We then put a piece of thick foam like paper under our drawing and re-drew over our drawing to create indents into the foam. Once the sketch was onto the piece of foam paper, we then used markers to color in the picture on the foam. When we were done coloring, we wet down a small piece of white paper, pressed the colored foam stamp onto the paper, and then took it off to reveal our drawing pressed onto the paper. The foam stamp can then be rinsed off under water and recolored in multiple times to keep making the same stamp. 

Extension Activity: I would have students, in a science lesson, pick out one planet to create a stamp for. They would do this activity, frame their stamped pictures of their chosen and drawn planet onto a paper like above, and then on the top and bottom of the frame, they have to write facts about their planet and present them to the class.