1. 1st Grade Art Project West Mercer Elementary Art Enrichment Program
Presentation modified and prepared by Alice Finch 2016
1st Grade Art Project
West Mercer Elementary Art Enrichment Program

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3. Lesson Overview 1 Lesson: butterfly prints Time:75 minutes
Volunteers: 4
Medium: foam prints
Curriculum connection: butterflies
Project Overview/Skills
Students will make a print by making an impression in the foam sheets.

4. Materials Needed Half sheet of scratch foam per student
Scratch paper cut in half sheet size
Large Brayers x2
Block printing ink, 2 color
Acrylic sheets for inking x2
Construction paper for printing, cut in half
Q-tips or Brand new pencils- erasers used to make dots on paper
Q-tips for getting ink out of grooves in foam
Acrylic paint (until it is used up) for dots
Large sheets of construction paper to put under paper when inking up

5. Display
Once the project is finished, student work should be mounted on colored paper and displayed either in the classroom or in the designated area in the hallway.
If there are some who have not finished, please check with the teacher on how they would like to proceed. Do not assume that it ok to continue the project after the allotted time.

7. Today’s Project
Butterfly prints

8. Step 1 – Parts of a butterfly
What are the parts of a butterfly?
What kind of symmetry does it have?

9. Step 2 – Draw a butterfly body
Draw a long, thin oval for the abdomen
Add a shorter, thin oval for the thorax
Look at the wings- what simple shapes can we use to draw them?
Triangle
Petal

10. Step 3 – Butterfly details
Draw wing membranes
What shapes are they?
What other details can you add?
Antennae
Swallowtail shape to hind wing

11. Step 4 – Transfer design to foam
Put your drawing on top of the foam
Make sure that it fits!
Go over your design with your pencil hard enough to make an impression on the foam (but not cut through it)

12. Step 5 – Inking Squirt ink onto acrylic
Use the brayer to even it out by rolling up and down
The ink is ready when it no longer slides on the ink and when it makes a “sticky” sound
Ink the foam evenly from edge to edge

13. Step 6 - Printing
Pick up the foam and carefully set it down on the printing paper
Rub it gently with the baren (wooden spoons)
Peel it up foam and you have a print!

14. Step 7 - Dots Sign your finished print
Rinse off your foam- you can take it home too
You may add decorative dots around the edge of your print with the q-tips