Elementary Art Lessons, Projects & Curriculum: Scratch Foam Printmaking Unit K-5

Boost your elementary art curriculum with this innovative Scratch Foam Printmaking Unit! This comprehensive resource includes 6 engaging elementary art projects and detailed lessons that will inspire your students to explore printmaking techniques and develop their artistic skills. This pack covers a range of techniques, artist exemplars, and subject matters. 

Bring creativity to your classroom with these cost-saving elementary art lessons! This printmaking elementary art curriculum builds on techniques as students move through grades. It also helps simplify the printing process by aligning supplies and techniques across all elementary art grade levels.

Elementary Art Lessons Included:

⭐️Kindergarten Bug or Fish Print

• Lesson plan (including essential questions, objectives, vocabulary, national standards, step-by-step instructions, and so much more)
• Teacher notes handout
• 4 PowerPoint presentations (also in PDF format) to show at the beginning of each class as an introduction, review, and display of step-by-step instructions. 
• Images from artist exemplar,  Katsushika Hokusai
• How to draw a fish handout
• How to draw a dragonfly
• How to draw a bug handout

⭐️1st Grade Animal Print

• A thorough lesson plan (big idea, I can, goals, essential questions, objectives, supply list, resource links, step-by-step implementation instructions). With instructions to use for second grades or adapting it for older students up to 6th grade.
• Teacher notes, so even if you are unfamiliar with scratch foam printmaking, you know how to best set up for it.
• 4 PowerPoint and PDF presentations to start each day
• A Demo video to show students the steps (accessed via YouTube or Google Drive)
• How to draw a turtle, sea turtle, lizard, fish, frog, and snake
• Project checklist
• Early finisher, Henri Matisse info sheet and two activities
• Early finisher, Making 2D shapes 3D
• How to label an edition handout

⭐️2nd Grade Pop Art Print

• A thorough lesson plan (big idea, I can, goals, essential questions, objectives, supply list, resource links, step-by-step implementation instructions). With instructions to use for second grades or adapting it for older students up to 6th grade.
• Teacher notes, so even if you are unfamiliar with scratch foam printmaking, you know how to best set up for it.
• 4 PowerPoint and PDF presentations to start each day
• A Demo video to show students the steps (accessed via YouTube or Google Drive)
• How to write block letters handout
• Blast words how to handout
• Roy Lichtenstein artist sheet with two activities
• Perspective letter early finisher activity
• Soup can design early finisher activity
• Project checklist
• How to label an edition handout

⭐️3rd Grade Egyptian Cartouche

• A thorough lesson plan (big idea, I can, goals, essential questions, objectives, supply list, resource links, step-by-step implementation instructions). With instructions to use for second grades or adapting it for older students up to 6th grade.
• Teacher notes, so even if you are unfamiliar with foam printmaking, you know how to best set up for it.
• 5 PowerPoint and PDF presentations to start each day
• A Demo video to show students the steps (accessed via YouTube or Google Drive)
• Egyptian cartouche drawing how to
• Hieroglyphics guide
• Project checklist
• Early finisher, drawing an Egyptian column
• Early finisher, Egyptian sarcophagus information
• Early finisher, Egyptian sarcophagus activity
• How to label an edition handout
• An art history-focused presentation of Egyptian Art
• Art history travel journal on ancient and Egyptian art
• Discussing art history handout
• Hieroglyphics for older students
• Project checklist

⭐️4th Grade Rainbow Roll-Up

• Lesson plan (including essential questions, objectives, vocabulary, national standards, step-by-step instructions, and so much more)
• Teacher notes handout
• 5 PowerPoint presentations (also in PDF format) to show at the beginning of each class as an introduction, review, and to display step-by-step instructions. 
• 5 How to draw handouts to help develop their landscapes
• A printable poster to display with project instructions
• A printable handout for each student or each table with project instructions
• A what is an edition? reference handout for labeling prints
• Project checklist

⭐️5th Grade Self-Portrait Print

• A thorough lesson plan (big idea, I can, goals, essential questions, objectives, supply list, resource links, step-by-step implementation instructions). With instructions to use for second grades or adapting it for older students up to 6th grade.
• Teacher notes, so even if you are unfamiliar with scratch foam printmaking, you know how to best set up for it.
• 4 PowerPoint and PDF presentations to start each day
• A Demo video to show students the steps (accessed via YouTube or Google Drive)
• How to edit their photo using the free online program, Pixlr
• Value scale example and activity
• Andy Warhol artist sheet with two activities
• Project checklist
• How to label an edition handout

How to use these elementary art lessons:

✅Follow the lesson plan to guide you in introducing and teaching the project

✅Presentations and demo videos are used to show the technique

✅Handouts are used as a reference

✅Early finisher tasks help occupy speedy artists

❤️You will LOVE implementing these elementary art projects into your K-5 classes because they allow you to teach the same concept with the same materials across grade levels to simplify set up and build on techniques in elementary art.

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What are teachers saying about this elementary art curriculum?

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This is a stunning resource! It's a wealth of information for the novice art teacher or for those who have been in the game for a while and looking to spruce up old projects. The daily presentations that are included are perfect for students working at all different paces. I will definitely be buying more resources from this teacher!” - Audrey V.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Perfect to give an overview when using these techniques with younger grades.” - Karen S.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Great resource.” - Teaching Is Life

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