Project Title: Stamped Forest with Construction Paper Landscape
Medium: Printmaking
Grade Theme: Land and Sky

Overview: Students will create landscape backdrops by gluing a half sheet of construction paper onto a whole sheet.  They will make trunk and tree canopy stamps and one animal stamp, which they will stamp using professional printing ink. If time permits, they will then be able to add details with colored pencils.
Art Skills: Drawing, painting, stamping
Process: Students will make stamps out of sticker-backed foam and cardboard.  They will make trunk, canopy, and animal stamps.  Art teachers will help students ink stamps with professional block printing ink and students will stamp in a forest, paying attention to layering, distance, and scale. 
Materials: Mixed media paper, sticker foam sheets, cardboard, block ink
Tools Provided by Classroom: Scissors, pencils, art shirts/smocks
Vocabulary: Perspective: A drawing technique that creates the illusion of three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface (far away things look smaller than close-up things)
Additional Resource: Link to Art History and Connection
Multiple Subject Integration: Ecosystems, biodiversity, perspective drawing

*Please note that samples were made by teaching artists.  Students will be encouraged to make their own versions of this project. Please DO NOT show students these samples in advance of the art lesson.

Description Summary: Today students had a special art lesson making forest landscapes with hidden animals.  They made their own stamps to create their forests in vivid colors.