Scratch Art

For this activity, students created a scratch art project. To begin, students were instructed to color their piece of cardstock. They could either do primary colors or secondary colors. We had to make sure our cardstock was fully colored. After the coloring was complete, we painted over top of it with black paint. We needed to make sure that no colors were showing through the black paint. After the painting was done, we set it aside to dry. In the meantime, we were instructed to draw a landscape design on a sheet of white paper the same size as the cardstock paper. We then turned the piece of paper over and colored the back of it with pencil. We did this so we could put our plain sheet of paper over the cardstock and transfer the landscape design onto the black paint. To do so, we had to trace our landscape design again with pencil. This left pencil marks on our black paint. Then, we used our scratcher tool and went over our pencil marks, revealing the colors underneath the black paint. Once the whole design was revealed, we glued our piece of cardstock to a piece of construction paper.

For my project, I created a summer scene. I included grass, flowers, clouds and birds.

Extension activities: Since we created a picture, this activity could be used for any subject you want to create a picture for! If the students are reading a chapter book (older grades), they could draw a scene from one of the chapters for example. Students could also make representation of something in science, such as the water cycle or even a plant.