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Fruit and Vegetable Prints
Grade: K-6 •
Age: 4-10 •
Written by: Andrea Mulder-Slater
[Andrea is one of the creators of KinderArt ®]
This is a terrific, inexpensive way to introduce printmaking to your students.
What You Need:
- Paint or ink. (to make tempera paint thicker and stickier, add a touch of flour or glue)
- Sponges and an old cookie tray or styrofoam tray. (its a good idea to put the paint on a sponge so that when an object is dipped into the paint, the sponge will only let off a little bit of paint ... because a little is all you need.)
- Paintbrushes, water and water containers.
- Paper
- A covered work area.
- Fruits and veggies of all kinds. Some good ones are:
- carrots
- starfruit
- mushrooms
- cauliflower
- broccoli
- tomatoes
- peppers
- avocados
- apples
What You Do:
- The basic idea is to dip fruits and vegetables into paint or printing ink and stamp them onto paper in random or ordered patterns.
- Kinder artists may instead wish to apply paint or ink directly to the vegetables with a paintbrush.
- No knives are needed except for to cut the fruit or vegetable in half (an adult should do this part).
- When the printing is complete, students can choose sections of the finished print (using a viewfinder - two L- shaped pieces of paper) and draw the patterns they see.
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