Mother's Day Cards-Scratch Art

This Mother's Day card worked great with our class's timing. The card is a good idea that have your 4th grade students make for their family. In this lesson, shapes and color were the main focus of the scratch art. Our first step for our card was to color a cardstock  with crayons. We maid sure that the crayons were pushed down hard while coloring so the colors covered the whole piece of paper. Once we were finished coloring, we painted the cardstock paper with a mixture of tempera paint and detergent. The paper had to be completely covered and had to not have any clumps on it.
 While waiting for the paint to dry, we got a piece of paper where we drew what we wanted on the outside of the cards. We drew on side of the piece, and on the other we colored it all black with our pencil. After we drew what we wanted on the outside of the cards, we traced it onto the black paint with a big #2 pencil. We had to press down very hard so that we could see our shapes. Then we traced over the pencil marks with a wooden sticks so that our colors on the cardstock would show through. The colors showed up really well and were cool to see! Once the outside of our card was finished, we wrote a note on the insides for our moms.

As an extension activity, I would use the scratch art on different shapes according to different holidays. You could paint leprechauns, Easter bunnies, or Santas. Your students could decorate those cutouts any way they want and it would be a great way to decorate your room for the holidays-very colorful!