Texture Printing

Recently, PK and Kindergarten artists have been exploring texture, or how something feels to touch, through texture printing. We have already printed with cardboard earlier this school year, in our printed cityscapes. This time, students tried printing with a variety of different everyday objects and materials, as well as different colors of paint! 

First, we reviewed how we make a print with an object: dip it in the paint, press it down on the paper, and lift up to reveal the print. We talked about how to leave some space on the paper, so that there would be enough room to visit all 6 different color stations. Then students started printing at their assigned table, with one color of paint. Every few minutes, students moved to another table with their group to print with different materials and colors. 

Objects included sponges, bubble wrap, cardboard paper rolls, plastic mesh, and various plastic caps and lids. Prints were layered on top of each other as students moved around the room. Students were encouraged to explore and experiment with their prints and use the entire paper. 

PK and Kindergarten students did a great job with this messy process, making sure to put their objects back in the center of the table for others to share and walking carefully to the next station with their artwork when it was time to switch. It was messy, but also a lot of fun! Here are some examples of our texture printing exploration works on display:

Amor, Kindergarten (Beatty)

Giannah, Kindergarten (Bolton)

Inty, Kindergarten (Tan)

Kaylie, Kindergarten (Blackwood)

Lily, PK (Mattson / Gendren)

Nico, Kindergarten (Segreve)

Nora, Kindergarten (Segreve)

Olivia, Kindergarten (Blackwood)

Tasty Texture Sandwiches

3rd grade artists recently explored texture by making delicious looking texture sandwiches! We began with a long piece of paper and glued pieces of wallpaper at the bottom to create a table top for our sandwich. We also added a plate or wrapper for our sandwich.

Using cardboard, students cut out a bottom bun and a top bun for the sandwich. We talked about different shapes we could use, like rectangles and semi circles. We made sure to leave a lot of space in between the bottom and top pieces of bread for lots of ingredients! 

Next class, we brainstormed a variety of sandwich ingredients, including tomatoes, cheese, salami, peanut butter, Nutella, pickles, bacon, etc. We made a long list on the board to use as reference. Students were able to choose from a variety of different materials with different colors and textures to represent sandwich ingredients. Students got very creative with how they used their materials. Sometimes, students searched for a specific material for a specific ingredient. Other times, we were inspired by the material and what ingredient it reminded us of. Here are some examples of our tall, textured sandwiches:

Alina, 3rd Grade (Lutz)

Ben S., 3rd Grade (Stone)

Destanie, 3rd Grade (Monfette)

Ethan, 3rd Grade (Donato)

Gustavo, 3rd Grade (Fletcher Nickl)

Hunter, 3rd Grade (Lutz)

Lenna, 3rd Grade (Monfette)

Mackenzie, 3rd Grade (Monfette)

Manos, 3rd Grade (Monfette)

Marina, 3rd Grade (Donato)

Priya, 3rd Grade (Monfette)

Sam, 3rd Grade (Stone)

Name, 3rd Grade (Class)

Yulissa, 3rd Grade (Monfette)

Textured Bird Collages

Recently, PK and Kindergarten artists have been learning about texture, or how something feels to touch. To further explore different textures, we made texture rubbings. 

We learned how to make a texture rubbing by placing an object underneath their paper and using the side of a crayon to rub on top of the paper to capture the object's texture. 

Students were given a variety of different textured objects at their table and experimented with texture rubbing. Students thought about where to place their objects underneath their paper so that they could fill up their whole paper, as well as layer some rubbings on top of each other. 

At the end of class, we shared our texture rubbings with each other on the rug. We revisited texture rubbing in a following class, but this time we selected colored paper to make our texture rubbings and used them to make a collage of a bird.

Students made textured paper using the texture rubbing technique and then cut out shapes from this paper to form their bird. When they were finished gluing down the bird's body, they added two feathers, as well as a background.

Below are some examples of our textured bird collages:

Audrey L., Kindergarten (Bolton)

Aurelia, Kindergarten (Bolton)

Ixeyka, Kindergarten (Martignetti)

Sara, Kindergarten (Segreve)

Tyler, Kindergarten (Martignetti)

Nathalia, Kindergarten (Beatty)

Texture Printing

Recently, PK and Kindergarten artists have been exploring texture, or how something feels to touch. After texture rubbing, we explored texture printing. We have already printed with cardboard earlier this school year, with our printed cityscapes. This time, students tried printing with a variety of different everyday objects and materials, as well as different colors of paint! 

First, we reviewed how we make a print with an object: dip it in the paint, press it down on the paper, and lift up to reveal the print. We talked about how to leave some space on the paper, so that there would be enough room to visit all 6 different color stations. 

Then students started printing at their assigned table, with one color of paint. Every few minutes, students moved to another table with their group to print with different materials and colors. Objects included sponges, bubble wrap, cardboard paper rolls, plastic mesh, and various plastic caps and lids. Prints were layered on top of each other as students moved around the room. 

Students were encouraged to explore and experiment with their prints and use the entire paper. PK and Kindergarten students did a great job with this messy process, making sure to put their objects back in the center of the table for others to share and walking carefully to the next station with their artwork when it was time to switch. It was messy, but also a lot of fun! Here are some examples of our texture printing exploration:

Marlo, Kindergarten (Segreve)

Noah, Kindergarten (Bolton)

Seif, Kindergarten (Beatty)

Susie, PK (Mattson)

Yaseen, Kindergarten (Martignetti)

Lara, Kindergarten (Martignetti)

Lucy, Kindergarten (Beatty)

Texture Sandwiches

1st grade artists recently explored texture by making delicious looking texture sandwiches! First, we brainstormed a plethora of sandwich ingredients, including bread, meat, cheese, peanut butter, Nutella, hummus, pickles, bacon, etc. We made a long list on the board to use as reference.

We began with a long piece of paper and glued patterned paper at the bottom to create a table top for our sandwich. Using cardboard, students cut out a bottom bun and a top bun for the sandwich. We talked about different shapes we could use, like rectangles and semi circles. We made sure to leave a lot of space in between the bottom and top pieces of bread for lots of ingredients!

Next class, students were able to choose from a variety of different materials with different colors and textures to represent sandwich ingredients. Students got very creative with how they used their materials. 

Sometimes, students searched for a specific material for a specific ingredient. Other times, we were inspired by the material and what ingredient it reminded us of. For example, some students used cotton balls to represent marshmallow fluff, while another wrapped the cotton balls with green paper to turn into sushi! Here are some examples of our tall, textured sandwiches:

Kemi, 1st grade (Mandile)

Kendyll, 1st grade (Landay)

Vivian, 1st grade (Massa)

Aaron, 1st grade (Massa)

Lily, 1st grade (Massa)

Daniel, 1st grade (Torchio)

Phoebe, 1st grade (Torchio)

Ana, 1st grade (Massa)

Isabel, 1st grade (Torchio)