Collagraphs with 2nd grade

Seeing as I have already taught the students about how to scratch into the surface to make a stamp, I wanted to also show them that they could also build onto the surface to make a stamp. I used recycled folders for the texture and matting board for the printing plate. In two classes students used scissors, glue, creative scissors, hole punchers and Fiskars punchers to create a textured surface ni whatever topic or idea they wanted. 

On the third day they go to make prints from their plates using copy paper and black ink. The results were very satisfactory and the skills learned from our last printmaking experience seems to have remained and most students remembered the process perfectly and were a lot more independent in their printmaking experience. 

Each child rolls the ink and prints inside of a donated magazine. This helps save clean up time and keeps the activity fairly neat. Each child, in a 35-minute art class got to make anywhere between 3-10 prints of their stamp. 


Here are some examples of the prints created from our collagraphs.