Table Monoprints

This is a lesson my cooperating teacher and I decided to do with one of our 2nd grade classes to introduce monoprints. We had the students paint freely and directly on the table. They weren't given any other direction than that. They had so much fun painting on the table!

Then they pressed a huge blank sheet of white paper and loved seeing their design print onto it. We cleaned our work stations then set out to turn the prints into something. We examined our prints and began discussing what they could be. We gave them crayons to add the details to turn them into whatever they resembled.

Supplies

* Large white paper

* Tempera paint

* Paint brushes

* Crayons