Project Title: Monoprint  

Medium: Printmaking 

Grade Theme: pollinators 

Overview: Students will create drawn monoprints 

Art Skills: Drawing, inking, printing 

Process: Students will draw onto a Styrofoam sheet, pressing in to create relief  grooves. Students will roll ink onto their Styrofoam sheets and then will press the  inked sheet onto paper. 

Materials: Mixed Media Art Paper, Styrofoam Sheet, Professional Block Printing Ink 

Tools Provided by Classroom: Pencils 

Vocabulary: Printmaking 

Multiple Subject Integration: science, biodiversity, adaptation, anatomy 

*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 monoprints. They planned the different parts of the scene and drew their images onto a Styrofoam sheet which they then printed onto paper in bright colors.