Project Title: Ocean Landscape Stamping
Medium: Printmaking
Grade Theme: Oceans and Fish

Overview: Students will create ocean landscapes with seaweed, schools of fish, big sea creatures, and more, using stamps they make themselves and professional printing ink.
Art Skills: Drawing, cutting, stamp making, stamping composition
Process: Students will draw water current and bubbles and make stamps out of sticker-backed foam and cardboard.  They will make one seaweed stamp, one big fish/creature stamp and one stamp of a school of smaller creatures.  Art teachers will help students ink stamps with professional block printing ink for students to stamp their compositions.
Materials: Construction paper, sticker foam sheets, cardboard, block ink, wax crayons, watercolor pencils
Tools Provided by Classroom: Scissors, pencils, art shirts/smocks 
Vocabulary: Ocean landscape, geography, biodiversity, food chain, environment, kelp forest, different sea creatures
Additional Resource: Link to Art History and Connection
Multiple Subject Integration: science, geography and biodiversity, ecosystems, food chain.

*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 ocean landscapes filled with fish and sea creatures.  They made their own stamps and then stamped and drew their ocean landscapes in vivid colors.