The second graders and I read the book "Where the Wild Things Are." We looked closely at the wild, made up creatures we saw in the book. We noticed how they looked like a combination of several animals put together. After reading the book and discussing the creatures, each student listed three animals. They then drew the head of their first animal with the body of the second animal and the feet of the third animal. They did several of these until they had a favorite new creature.
We then drew our new creature into a piece of flat styrofoam. We used a brayer and rolled ink over the styrofoam. By pressing the styrofoam on to the paper we were able to get a print of our creature that we drew. These came out awesome! We did three different colors, cut them out and glued them to black paper. We finished these by writing "Wild Thing" across the bottom.
The students learned the concept of basic printmaking techniques as well as balance and design when gluing and writing on the black paper.
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