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]]>Kids don’t need to use any sharp tools when they create designs on flat foam sheets. Just draw on the surface with a pencil or ball-point pen to make embossed lines. A regular printmaking brayer is then used to roll a thin layer of water-soluble printing ink over the foam, and a piece of construction paper is laid on top and pressed firmly with fingertips (taking care not to wiggle the paper). Many prints can be made from a single foam block design.
Flat pieces of foam can be cut from many kinds of packages, from pizza boxes to the hinged “take home” containers used by many restaurants. It’s a great way to reuse/recycle in your art curriculum.
]]>When all your collage items are in place, slip the plastic bag between two pieces of aluminum foil. Have an adult press a warm iron on the foil for 10 or 20 seconds. The plastic will melt together and hold all your collage items in place. If a whole classroom is doing this project and your adult is ironing a lot of collage bags, it is good for them to work on a porch outside or in a room with really good ventilation to minimize any hot plastic smell in the air.
A sandwich bag collage looks great hanging in a window. It looks like a mini stained glass suncatcher!
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What you”ll need:
What to do:
1. Divide the cookie dough into 3 balls.
Put all 3 balls of cookie dough into a plastic bag and chill in the refrigerator for at least an hour, or more.
2. Sprinkle flour onto waxed paper and roll some dough into a long snake about as thick as a pencil. Bend the dough into a heart shape. Fill in the center of the heart with other dough colors – rolled into snakes, smushed in as dots, or whatever each young artist wants.
3. The adult helper can carefully move the finished dough heart onto a greased cookie sheet. If you want a cookie-on-a-stick, just slip a clean wooden treat stick under the bottom of the dough heart and press gently. Bake at 350 degrees for 7 – 8 minutes. Move cookies to a rack and cool completely.
Sculpting with clay is a wonderful activity for kids of all ages.
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