'Egg'tastic Printmaking

This was my lesson about printmaking and to get them started we went on an Egg hunt around the classroom. We talked about warm and cool colors then had the students find a partner by match their eggs to the opposite colors. We had the students draw eggs on a piece of paper and then had them trace it on apiece of Styrofoam. They then used foam as a stamp, which they rolled on the color of their eggs paint. Then they laid a piece of construction paper over the paint and pressed down. When we took the paper off you could see the design. The students cut out their two eggs and glued them to a piece of construction paper labeling with the print edition. They could decorate the back ground how every they want and finally they put on their note cards.  

For an extension activity,

Was geometric shapes were the students had a slip inside their eggs. They had to incorporate that shape in their pattern of the eggs. The shape I incorporated was a heart. The students then had to write a paragraph about their prints such as what shape, their colors and their partners. The students could even tell a story of the egg hunt we went on.