Holiday Printmaking

This holiday printmaking lesson was for a 2nd grade class and did a great job of incorporating shapes, colors, and holidays.
Students chose five pieces of construction paper that we wanted as our background. We then practiced drawing scenes that we would want to have printed on our papers. After practicing, we drew our scenes on a white foam tray. We put paint on the foam trays and spread it around with a roller. When we had the tray covered, we flipped it on the piece of construction paper and pressed down (hard!) The finished product on the construction paper was the scene we had drawn on the foam tray!

For an extension activity, you could use the printmaking to make cards for holidays. The holidays you could make cards for would be May Day, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, or Halloween!