Early Childhood

Neera Savi M.

The Essential Question
What can we use to create art besides traditional art supplies?

Objective
Students will use rubbing plates, watercolors, and found objects to make a textured collage.

Materials
9 x 12" (23 x 30 cm) mixed-media white paper, unwrapped crayons, rubbing plates, watercolors, brushes, liquid glue, various found or recycled objects with texture

Procedures
1. Introduce the Essential Question and share a slideshow presentation about textures.
2. Demonstrate how to use rubbing plates. Distribute mixed-media paper and have students experiment with the plates to create different textures.
3. Have students use watercolors to add detail and additional texture to their paper. Demonstrate how they can use crayons to blend colors over the texture rubbings they created. Allow the painted papers to dry.
4. Revisit the texture slideshow. Demonstrate how students can use liquid glue and found textured objects to attach to their collage. Encourage students to use objects with different textures (e.g., soft, hard, smooth, bumpy).

Assessment
Did students use at least two types of rubbing plates with crayon?

Emily Thaler is an elementary art teacher for Montgomery County Public Schools in Bethesda, Maryland.