For our second project, I decided to have them make home made scratch art.
First, we discussed fall and the colors that we see on trees. We started our project by coloring a piece of tagboard. They had to make sure that they colored in all the paper that was showing. We used fall colors. Once every spot was colored, we painted over the entire thing with black acrylic paint, and set it aside to dry. While the students were waiting for their projects to dry, they practiced drawing leaves, using some reference photographs that I printed from the computer. I would have loved to take them out on a nature walk or simply bring in some leaves to look at, however this was during one of the many rainy weeks that we had in October. Once their papers dried, I demonstrated how to simply use their pencil to draw their design onto the black. This scrapes the black coating off and leaves the colored parts below.
Here are some pictures from the day, though they aren't the best quality, unfortunately!
How neat. I didn't realize they made their own scratch paper. That makes the project so much more interesting.
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