Printmaking-seasons

Printmaking- seasons was the lesson that my partner and I did as our lesson. We were to incorporate printmaking into whatever we were teaching for that day. We chose to teach the seasons to "first graders". At the beginning of the class we covered what day it is, what month it is, what year it is, and then went through each season to get the students understanding and memorizing those things. We introduced a printmaking artist, his name was Stephen Alcorn. He did a lot of printmaking with wood and different materials but of course in class with first graders we had to make it a little easier. We provided four foam boards, four white sheets of card stock paper, the paint, and the rollers. We had each student brainstorm their ideas of a representation of each season, they then carved into their foam board with their pencil. Once they had all of their ideas done they were to bring their foam boards and paper to the front tables where we had the paint. They rolled the paint onto their foam board and then transferred it to their white paper in which their final products were made.
If I were to do this activity again I would use it for different holidays or birthdays and make cards. You could use the same techniques letting the students design what they are asked to design and then have them press it onto the front of paper folded into a card.