Print together a cool dinosaur footprint or a beautiful leaf print!
You can use your prints for decorating your children's room, as a gift wrapping or as a spacial greeting card for your loved ones.
Yesterday evening we read about the history of printing. A grate way to experience what printing is - is to print!
So today, as many others around the world, we are at home (due to social distancing) and had the whole morning for printing experiments!
Preparation:
Start by preparing the area for a free gouache work, which mean cover everything with newspapers (or other reused paper), cover the floor and walls near you.
Because we can't go outside, we pluck some nice leaves from our sweet-potato plant and some meant leaves.
How to print:
Choose one leaf and cover it with a thin layer of paint, than lay it on a paper (preferably a thick paper/watercolor paper) with the painted side facing down.
Now lay another paper (plain paper) on the leaf, Press and punch it. Lift the paper and than pill carefully the leaf from your card.
The kids love to reveal the leaf shape and structure.
How to print dinosaur footprint and dinosaur tooth print:
Dinosaurs footprint and tooth print are very easy and cool prints:
Take a thick paper (for example a cover of a magazine) and fold it in to half, draw a simple half of a flower, and cut carefully the shape you draw to create a foot print stencil.
To create the tooth shape try to draw
something like this:
(start with a small hill shape that ends with a sharp edge)
Use a sponge to cover your stencils with paint (but not too much paint), than pill it slowly to reveal the shapes. Have fun decorate a greeting card or a gift wrapping!
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