Lesson: Monoprint Flower Vase
Collage
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Objective: I can demonstrate a simple
printmaking technique.
I can use scissors with control.
I can use glue with control.
I can identify and use color; red,
orange, yellow, green, blue and
violet.
Materials/Resources:
4.5” x 6” White Paper (15 per student)
12” x 18” Black Paper
Cardboard 1” Scrap Pieces
Scissors & Glue
White Construction Paper Crayons
Black Permanent Marker
Liquid Tempera Paint
Bubble Wrap
3” Book Tape
10” x 12” Cardboard
Aluminum Foil
Cotton Swabs
Paint Brushes
Paint Cups
Flower, Leaf & Vase Tag-board Templates
Procedure: Introduce or review lesson objectives. Introduce the art and history of
printmaking. Introduce what a sculpture and relief sculpture is and what 3D
means.
Teacher Prep: Cut and tape bubble wrap to 10” x 12” cardboard, bubble side up.
Need at least five, one for each paint color. Tape aluminum foil piece to center
of at least five cardboard pieces, one for each color. These will be used as
printing plates.
Day one – two:
1.Trace leaf pattern, twice onto three white papers with black permanent marker.
2. Trace tulip flower pattern in the center of six white papers with black permanent
marker.
3. Trace daisy flower pattern in the center of six white papers with black
permanent marker.
Day two – three:
Teacher Prep: Printmaking set up as color stations. One table has blue paint, one
has green, one pink, one violet and the final in red. Each station has one
aluminum foil printing plate with cotton swabs and one each of the large and
small bubble wrap. Paint cups with paint brushes next to each printing plate. At
each plate the student will use a paint brush to add paint to top of the bubble
wrap or aluminum foil. They will press their flowers onto the paint. At the
aluminum foil they will use a cotton swab to draw a pattern into the paint before
printing their flower or leaves.
1.At each color station students will bring three papers with pre-traced flowers
and print one big bubble wrap, one small bubble wrap and then a mono-print at
the aluminum plate. Obviously the leaf papers will be brought to the green
station.
2. Repeat until all 15 papers are printed and let dry completely.
Day four – five:
1.On black paper trace vase pattern near the bottom of the paper with pencil
and trace with white crayon and add curved lines horizontally and add some
pattern with white crayon.
2. Cut out all six leaves and glue in a circle shape above the top of the vase. Cut
out each flower carefully leaving the black marker edge and glue above the top
of the vase overlapping leaves and other flowers. When you have four flowers left
to glue, add a couple of pieces of cardboard scraps on the back of each flower
to make it stick up off the paper.
3. Let dry completely.