Print It!

This project is print making mixed with the Easter holiday. I used a cleaned, foam meat tray and carving sticks to make an imprint on the foam so that it was textured. The texture had to be pretty deep into the tray without putting holes into it. Once the design was traced, I used ink and a roller to transfer the ink from the tray onto my carved tray. The ink had to be even. Then I used paper and smoothed it out over the foam piece. Slowly, I peeled the paper off of the tray. I did this with four colors. Once they dried, I glued them onto construction paper.
Print making can be used for social studies lesson where the students are learning about fossils. The students would be able to make their own form of a flat fossil.