Helping Children Get Started With Printmaking

With Texture

• Vary the amount of paint used in printing
• Use objects that create different textures, such as sponges, corrugated paper, wadded paper or cloth, stones, vegetables, and sandpaper.

With background paper

• use a variety of shapes and sizes of paper
• Paint background paper and allow it to dry before printing,
• Paste pieces of tissues or colored construction paper onto background paper, allow to dry then paint.
• Print a stippled design on background with sponge, allow to dry, then print with a solid object

With pattern

• Print a shape in straight rows or zigzag. Repeat design to create an all over pattern
• Use a different shape for each row and add a second color in alternate rows
• Print in a border design with a single shape or group of shapes.d